| 2026 | ITiCSE | Do Students Plan to Improve What They Struggle With? An Analysis of Programming Reflections. | Kevin Alvarenga, Matthew Zahn, Sarah Heckman, Lina Battestilli |
| 2026 | SIGCSE | From Confidence to Doubt: A Multi-year Analysis of Students' Problem-Solving Attitudes in a CS2 Course. | Zhikai Gao, Matthew Zahn, Collin Lynch, Sarah Heckman |
| 2026 | SIGCSE | What Happens When Students Leave Office Hours? Measuring Post-Interaction Code Progress in CS2 Projects. | Matthew Zahn, Sarah Heckman, Lina Battestilli |
| 2025 | ICER | Relationships Between Computing Students' Characteristics, Help-Seeking Approaches, and Help-Seeking Behavior in Introductory Courses and Beyond. | Shao-Heng Ko, Matthew Zahn, Kristin Stephens-Martinez, Yesenia Velasco, Lina Battestilli, Sarah Heckman |
| 2025 | SIGCSE | Student Perceptions of the Help Resource Landscape. | Shao-Heng Ko, Kristin Stephens-Martinez, Matthew Zahn, Yesenia Velasco, Lina Battestilli, Sarah Heckman |
| 2024 | SIGCSE | Investigating Students' Perspectives on the Value of Help-Seeking Resources in CS Education. | Matthew Zahn, Sarah Heckman, Lina Battestilli |
| 2023 | ITiCSE | Assessment of Self-Identified Learning Struggles in CS2 Programming Assignments. | Matthew Zahn, Isabella Gransbury, Sarah Heckman, Lina Battestilli |
| 2023 | SIGCSE | Observations on Student Help-Seeking Behaviors in Introductory Computer Science Courses. | Matthew Zahn, Sarah Heckman |