Status Report of the SIGCSE Committee on Teaching Computer Science Research Methods Hilary Holz California State University, East Bay 25800 Carlos Bee Blvd Hayward, California 94542 1-510-885-3000 Anne Applin Ithaca College 1212 Williams Center Ithaca, New York 14850 1-607-274-7306 William Joel Western Connecticut State University 181White Street Danbury, Connecticut 06810 1-203-837-9353 hilary.holz@csueastbay.edu aapplin@ithaca.edu joelw@wcsu.edu Summary SIGCSE-CSRM s mission is to support collaborative exploration of content, pedagogy, and curricular issues related to teaching research methods in computing (CRM). The committee runs a listserv and a wiki, including a repository of CRM course materials. At ITiCSE 2006, a SIGCSE-CSRM working group developed a sense-making framework for teaching computing research methods, a list of core skills for research in computing, and a list of specific CRM skills. Having accomplished its initial goals, SIGCSE-CSRM has begun discussion of our next steps. Three areas of interest have been identified: (1) disseminating the framework and getting feedback from people adopting the framework; (2) annotating, organizing and expanding the results from our literature search into an online annotated bibliography; and (3) exploring the relationship between CRM as a whole and CRM in specific communities of practice such as SIGGRAPH. During the session, committee members will
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