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Jessica Vandenberg

Publication record assembled from the DBLP archive of ranked conferences.

Papers indexed

51

Venues

10

Active years

2019–2026

Best venue rank

A*

Where they publish

Papers

51 indexed papers, newest first.

YearVenueTitleAuthors
2026AAAICo-Designing Unplugged Learning Activities with K-2 Teachers for Early AI Literacy Education.Jessica Vandenberg, Keisha Bailey, Claire Aguiar, Cecilia Xuning Zhang, Danny Schmidt, Treshonda Rutledge, Bradford W. Mott, Joseph P. Wilson
2026AAAIFrom Embeddings to Chatbots: Playful NLP Activities for Middle School AI Literacy.Jessica Vandenberg, Alex Goslen, Claire Aguiar, Wookhee Min, Veronica Catet, Bradford W. Mott
2026AIEDAn Explainable AI Assistant for Introductory Programming Education: Improving Feedback Reliability with Instructor-AI Collaboration.Muntasir Hoq, Griffin Pitts, Bradford W. Mott, Seung Y. Lee, Jessica Vandenberg, Shuyin Jiao, Narges Norouzi, James C. Lester, Bita Akram
2026AIEDMaking AI Planning Visible: Narrative-Centered Goal-Directed AI Reasoning to Foster AI Literacy.Bradford W. Mott, Jessica Vandenberg, Srijita Chakraburty, Anne T. Ottenbreit-Leftwich, Emma Braaten, Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver, Amy Hutchison, Krista D. Glazewski, James C. Lester
2026AIEDIntroducing Adolescents to the Social Dimensions of AI Through Story-Driven Game-Based Learning.Jessica Vandenberg, Bradford W. Mott, Carlos Penilla, James C. Lester, Elizabeth Ozer
2026FDGA Theory-Informed Narrative-Centered Model to Foster AI Literacy and Biomedical Career Interest.Bradford W. Mott, Jessica Vandenberg, Carlos Penilla, J. Renee Navarro, James C. Lester, Elizabeth Ozer
2026ITiCSEPlay, Explore, Reward: Introducing Reinforcement Learning Concepts through Game-Based Learning in Middle School.Veronica Catet, Deniz Ozturk, Claire Aguiar, Jessica Vandenberg, Wookhee Min, Bradford W. Mott
2026ITiCSEConfidence Outpaces Interest: Upper Elementary AI Attitudes in a Science-Integrated Unit.Jessica Vandenberg, Bradford W. Mott, Srijita Chakraburty, Anne Leftwich, Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver, Krista D. Glazewski, James C. Lester
2026ITiCSECollaborative Sensemaking of Unplugged AI in K-2 Language Arts: A Teacher Case Study.Jessica Vandenberg, Bradford W. Mott, Treshonda Rutledge, Cecilia Xuning Zhang, Joseph P. Wilson
2026LAKEmotions in Action: How Students' Regulatory Responses Shape Learning.Andres Felipe Zambrano, Jaclyn Ocumpaugh, Ryan S. Baker, Jessica Vandenberg
2026SIGCSEINSIGHT: An Explainable, Instructor-Guided AI Assistant for Active Learning in CS1.Muntasir Hoq, Jessica Vandenberg, Seung Y. Lee, Bradford W. Mott, James C. Lester, Narges Norouzi, Shuyin Jiao, Bita Akram
2026SIGCSEAI Meets Storytime: Co-Designing Unplugged K-2 ELA-Aligned AI Lessons with Teachers.Jessica Vandenberg, Bradford W. Mott, Treshonda Rutledge, Claire Aguiar, Keisha Bailey, Cecilia Xuning Zhang, Joseph P. Wilson
2026SIGCSEToward Equitable Collaboration in Elementary CS Education: Teacher Perspectives on Programming Models.Jessica Vandenberg, Bradford W. Mott, Arif Rachmatullah, Satabdi Basu
2026SIGCSEBridging Computational Thinking, Science, and Storytelling: Reflections on an Interdisciplinary Learning Approach.Jessica Vandenberg, Andy Smith, Robert Monahan, James Minogue, Kevin M. Oliver, Aleata Hubbard Cheuoua, Cathy Ringstaff, Bradford W. Mott
2025AAAIShaping AI Interest in Rural Middle Schools with Unplugged Learning: Gender Differences and Teacher Insights.Hansol Lim, Danielle Boulden, Jessica Vandenberg, Veronica Catet, Wookhee Min, Bradford W. Mott
2025AIEDPlayful Pathways to AI Literacy: Designing NLP Activities for Middle School AI Education.Alex Goslen, Claire Aguiar, Jessica Vandenberg, Veronica Catet, Wookhee Min, Bradford W. Mott
2025EDMExplainable AI in the Loop: An Instructor-Transformer Collaboration for Improving Explainability and Reliability of Feedback in Introductory Programming Classrooms.Muntasir Hoq, Bradford W. Mott, Seung Y. Lee, Jessica Vandenberg, Narges Norouzi, James C. Lester, Bita Akram
2025EDMAutomated Identification of Logical Errors in Programs: Advancing Scalable Analysis of Student Misconceptions.Muntasir Hoq, Ananya Rao, Reisha Jaishankar, Krish Piryani, Nithya Janapati, Jessica Vandenberg, Bradford W. Mott, Narges Norouzi, James C. Lester, Bita Akram
2025EDMThe Half-Life of Epistemic Emotions: How Motivation Influences Affective Chronometry.Andres Felipe Zambrano, Jaclyn Ocumpaugh, Ryan S. Baker, Kirk Vanacore, Jordan Esiason, Jessica Vandenberg
2025LAKRefocusing the lens through which we view affect dynamics: The Skills, Difficulty, Value, Efficacy and Time Model.Jaclyn Ocumpaugh, Nidhi Nasiar, Andres Felipe Zambrano, Alex Goslen, Jessica Vandenberg, Jordan Esiason, Jonathan P. Rowe, Stephen Hutt
2025SIGCSE"Like a GPS": Analyzing Middle School Student Responses to an Interactive Pathfinding Activity.Claire Aguiar, Dan Carpenter, Jessica Vandenberg, Alex Goslen, Wookhee Min, Veronica Catet, Bradford W. Mott
2025SIGCSEPredicting Student Reasoning for Self-Reported Affect in Game-Based Learning Environments.Jordan Esiason, Alex Goslen, Andres Felipe Zambrano, Nidhi Nasiar, Stephen Hutt, Jonathan P. Rowe, Jaclyn Ocumpaugh, Jessica Vandenberg
2025SIGCSEIntroducing Reinforcement Learning Concepts to Middle School Students with Game-Based Learning.Matthew Presson, Anisha Gupta, Jessica Vandenberg, Alex Goslen, Wookhee Min, Veronica Catet, Bradford W. Mott
2025SIGCSEConceptualizing the Support and Learning of K-2 Educators around Artificial Intelligence in Language Arts.Jessica Vandenberg, Ryan Torbey, Cecilia Xuning Zhang, Bradford W. Mott, Keisha Bailey, Joseph P. Wilson
2024AAAIUnplugged K-12 AI Learning: Exploring Representation and Reasoning with a Facial Recognition Game.Hansol Lim, Wookhee Min, Jessica Vandenberg, Veronica Catet, Bradford W. Mott
2024EDMSays Who? How different ground truth measures of emotion impact student affective modeling.Andres Felipe Zambrano, Nidhi Nasiar, Jaclyn Ocumpaugh, Alex Goslen, Jiayi Zhang, Jonathan P. Rowe, Jordan Esiason, Jessica Vandenberg, Stephen Hutt
2024ITiCSEAI Planning is Elementary: Introducing Young Learners to Automated Problem Solving.Bradford W. Mott, Anisha Gupta, Jessica Vandenberg, Srijita Chakraburty, Anne T. Ottenbreit-Leftwich, Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver, J. Adam Scribner, Seung Y. Lee, Krista D. Glazewski, James C. Lester
2024SIGCSEInvestigating the Needs of Middle School Educators in Teaching Artificial Intelligence.Danielle Boulden, Jessica Vandenberg, Alex Goslen, Veronica Catet, Wookhee Min, Bradford W. Mott
2024SIGCSEEngaging Students from Rural Communities in AI Education with Game-Based Learning.Alex Goslen, Anisha Gupta, Smrithi Muthukrishnan, Raven Midgett, Wookhee Min, Jessica Vandenberg, Veronica Catet, Bradford W. Mott
2024SIGCSEStudent Perspectives on Expressing Academic Emotions in Digital Game-Based Learning.Alex Goslen, Jessica Vandenberg, Andres Felipe Zambrano, Nidhi Nasiar, Stephen Hutt, Jaclyn Ocumpaugh, Jonathan P. Rowe
2024SIGCSELeveraging Large Language Models for Automated Assessment of Elementary Students' Block-Based Narrative Programs.Anisha Gupta, Robert Monahan, Jessica Vandenberg, Andy Smith, Rasha Elsayed, Kimkinyona Fox, James Minogue, Kevin M. Oliver, Aleata Hubbard Cheuoua, Cathy Ringstaff, Bradford W. Mott
2024SIGCSETowards Attention-Based Automatic Misconception Identification in Introductory Programming Courses.Muntasir Hoq, Jessica Vandenberg, Bradford W. Mott, James C. Lester, Narges Norouzi, Bita Akram
2024SIGCSESupporting Student Engagement in K-12 AI Education with a Card Game Construction Toolkit.Hansol Lim, Wookhee Min, Jessica Vandenberg, Veronica Catet, Judith Uchidiuno, Bradford W. Mott
2023FDGLeveraging Game Design Activities for Middle Grades AI Education in Rural Communities.Jessica Vandenberg, Wookhee Min, Veronica Catet, Danielle Boulden, Bradford W. Mott
2023ICIDSFostering Interdisciplinary Learning for Elementary Students Through Developing Interactive Digital Stories.Anisha Gupta, Andy Smith, Jessica Vandenberg, Rasha Elsayed, Kimkinyona Fox, James Minogue, Aleata Hubbard Cheuoua, Kevin M. Oliver, Cathy Ringstaff, Bradford W. Mott
2023ICIDSIntegrating Storytelling and Making: A Case Study in Elementary School.Robert Monahan, Jessica Vandenberg, Andy Smith, Anisha Gupta, Kimkinyona Fox, Rasha Elsayed, Aleata Hubbard Cheuoua, James Minogue, Kevin M. Oliver, Cathy Ringstaff, Bradford W. Mott
2023ITiCSEMultimodal CS Education Using a Scaffolded CSCL Environment.Robert Monahan, Jessica Vandenberg, Anisha Gupta, Andy Smith, Rasha Elsayed, Kimkinyona Fox, Aleata Hubbard Cheuoua, Cathy Ringstaff, James Minogue, Kevin M. Oliver, Bradford W. Mott
2023ITiCSE"AI Teaches Itself": Exploring Young Learners' Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence for Instrument Development.Jessica Vandenberg, Bradford W. Mott
2023ITiCSEToward AI-infused Game Design Activities for Rural Middle Grades Students.Jessica Vandenberg, Wookhee Min, Anisha Gupta, Veronica Catet, Danielle Boulden, Bradford W. Mott
2023LAKEffects of Modalities in Detecting Behavioral Engagement in Collaborative Game-Based Learning.Fahmid Morshed Fahid, Seung Y. Lee, Bradford W. Mott, Jessica Vandenberg, Halim Acosta, Thomas A. Brush, Krista D. Glazewski, Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver, James C. Lester
2023SIGCSEComputing Education Postdocs and Beyond: Building a Postdoc Space for Community and Collaboration.Francisco Enrique Vicente Castro, Joseph P. Wilson, Jessica Vandenberg, Juho Leinonen, Miranda C. Parker
2023SIGCSESupporting Upper Elementary Students in Multidisciplinary Block-Based Narrative Programming.Jessica Vandenberg, Anisha Gupta, Andy Smith, Rasha Elsayed, Kimkinyona Fox, Aleata Hubbard Cheuoua, James Minogue, Kevin M. Oliver, Cathy Ringstaff, Bradford W. Mott
2023SIGCSEPromoting AI Education for Rural Middle Grades Students with Digital Game Design.Jessica Vandenberg, Wookhee Min, Veronica Catet, Danielle Boulden, Bradford W. Mott
2022ITiCSEToward More Generalizable CS and CT Instruments: Examining the Interaction of Country and Gender at the Middle Grades Level.Arif Rachmatullah, Jessica Vandenberg, Eric N. Wiebe
2021ITiCSEThe Relationship of CS Attitudes, Perceptions of Collaboration, and Pair Programming Strategies on Upper Elementary Students' CS Learning.Jessica Vandenberg, Arif Rachmatullah, Collin F. Lynch, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Eric N. Wiebe
2021SIGCSECollaborative Dialogue and Types of Conflict: An Analysis of Pair Programming Interactions between Upper Elementary Students.Jennifer Tsan, Jessica Vandenberg, Zarifa Zakaria, Danielle Cadieux Boulden, Collin F. Lynch, Eric N. Wiebe, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer
2020ICERGender Differences in Upper Elementary Students' Regulation of Learning while Pair Programming.Jessica Vandenberg, Jennifer Tsan, Madeline Hinckle, Collin F. Lynch, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Eric N. Wiebe
2020SIGCSEA Comparison of Two Pair Programming Configurations for Upper Elementary Students.Jennifer Tsan, Jessica Vandenberg, Zarifa Zakaria, Joseph B. Wiggins, Alexander R. Webber, Amanda E. Bradbury, Collin F. Lynch, Eric N. Wiebe, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer
2019CHIA Field Study of Teachers Using a Curriculum-integrated Digital Game.Zhongxiu Peddycord-Liu, Veronica Catet, Jessica Vandenberg, Tiffany Barnes, Collin F. Lynch, Teomara Rutherford
2019SIGCSEAn Investigation of Conflicts Between Upper-Elementary Pair Programmers.Jennifer Tsan, Jessica Vandenberg, Xiaoting Fu, Jamieka Wilkinson, Danielle Boulden, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Collin F. Lynch, Eric N. Wiebe
2019SIGCSEThe Development and Validation of Survey Items on Upper Elementary Students' Perspectives and Attitudes on CS.Jessica Vandenberg, Jennifer Tsan, Zarifa Zakaria, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Collin F. Lynch, Eric N. Wiebe