| 2025 | SIGCSE | Learning Collaboratively with Scratch. | Kelly Ding, Paulina Haduong, Karen Brennan |
| 2024 | ICER | Debugging with an AI Tutor: Investigating Novice Help-seeking Behaviors and Perceived Learning. | Stephanie Yang, Hanzhang Zhao, Yudian Xu, Karen Brennan, Bertrand Schneider |
| 2019 | ICER | Design of an Agent-Based Visual Programming Tool for Elementary Ecosystem Science Learning. | Shari Metcalf, Amanda Dickes, Karen Brennan, Chris Dede |
| 2019 | SIGCSE | Helping K-12 Teachers Get Unstuck with Scratch: The Design of an Online Professional Learning Experience. | Paulina Haduong, Karen Brennan |
| 2018 | SIGCSE | EcoMOD: Integrating Computational Thinking into Ecosystems Science Education via Modeling in Immersive Virtual Worlds (Abstract Only). | Amanda Dickes, Shari Metcalf, Amy Kamarainen, Joseph M. Reilly, Karen Brennan, Tina A. Grotzer, Chris Dede |
| 2018 | SIGCSE | Getting Unstuck: New Resources for Teaching Debugging Strategies in Scratch (Abstract Only). | Paulina Haduong, Karen Brennan |
| 2015 | SIGCSE | Bringing Grades K-5 to the Mainstream of Computer Science Education. | Katie Apone, Marina Umaschi Bers, Karen Brennan, Diana Franklin, Maya Israel, Pat Yongpradit |
| 2014 | SIGCSE | Blocks-based programming languages: simplifying programming for different audiences with different goals. | Paul Medlock-Walton, Kyle J. Harms, Eileen T. Kraemer, Karen Brennan, Daniel Wendel |
| 2014 | SIGCSE | CS professional development MOOCs. | Erin Mindell, Karen Brennan, Gwendolyn Britton, Jennifer S. Kay, Jennifer Rosato |
| 2013 | CSCW | CSCW and education: viewing education as a site of work practice. | Peter Samuelson Wardrip, R. Benjamin Shapiro, Andrea Forte, Spiro Maroulis, Karen Brennan, Ricarose Roque |
| 2013 | SIGCSE | Stories from the scratch community: connecting with ideas, interests, and people. | Karen Brennan, Mitchel Resnick |