| 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 | ITiCSE | Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of Replication in Computing Education. | Rita Garcia, Angela M. Zavaleta Bernuy, Dennis J. Bouvier, Sarah Heckman, Bettina M. J. Kern, Sophia Krause-Levy, Michael Liut, Usman Nasir, Yuhan Pan, Juliane Sperling |
| 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 | Addressing Challenges in Teaching-Track Faculty Promotion. | Christine Alvarado, Nate Derbinsky, Sarah Heckman, Manuel A. Prez-Quiones, Harini Ramaprasad, Mark Sherriff |
| 2025 | SIGCSE | Comparing Students' and Teachers' Assessments of Office Hours. | Zhikai Gao, Saminur Islam, Caleb Scott, Collin Lynch, Sarah Heckman |
| 2025 | SIGCSE | Lessons Learned from Supporting Student-Teachers as Lead University Instructors. | Justin Hsia, Dan Garcia, Sarah Heckman, Swapneel Sheth |
| 2025 | SIGCSE | EclipseMonitor: A Real-Time Student Programming Environment Data Collection Tool. | Saminur Islam, Zhikai Gao, John Bacher, Gabriel Silva de Oliveira, Varad Patwardhan, Sarah Heckman, Collin Lynch |
| 2025 | SIGCSE | Student Perceptions of the Help Resource Landscape. | Shao-Heng Ko, Kristin Stephens-Martinez, Matthew Zahn, Yesenia Velasco, Lina Battestilli, Sarah Heckman |
| 2024 | EDM | Who Should I Help Next? Simulation of Office Hours Queue Scheduling Strategy in a CS2 Course. | Zhikai Gao, Gabriel Silva de Oliveira, Damilola Babalola, Collin F. Lynch, Sarah Heckman |
| 2024 | FIE | Comparing Research Foci (What) and Student Participation (Who) in Computing Education Research in the United Kingdom and United States. | Monica M. McGill, Isabella Gransbury White, Sarah Heckman |
| 2024 | SIGCSE | Using Survival Analysis to Model Students' Patience in Online Office Hour Queues. | Zhikai Gao, Adam M. Gaweda, Collin F. Lynch, Sarah Heckman, Damilola Babalola, Gabriel Silva de Oliveira |
| 2024 | SIGCSE | Unlocking Excellence in Educational Research: Guidelines for High-Quality Research that Promotes Learning for All. | Monica M. McGill, Sarah Heckman, Michael Liut, Ismaila Temitayo Sanusi, Claudia Szabo |
| 2024 | SIGCSE | Exploring Novice Programmers' Testing Behavior: A First Step to Define Coding Struggle. | Gabriel Silva de Oliveira, Zhikai Gao, Sarah Heckman, Collin F. Lynch |
| 2024 | SIGCSE | Traditional vs. Flexible Modalities in a Data Structures Class. | Shanon M. Reckinger, Joe Hummel, Sarah Heckman |
| 2024 | SIGCSE | Investigating Students' Perspectives on the Value of Help-Seeking Resources in CS Education. | Matthew Zahn, Sarah Heckman, Lina Battestilli |
| 2023 | FIE | Impact of Study Groups on Students' Learning and Engagement: Across Different Online Formats of a Web-development Course. | Debarati Basu, Sarah Heckman |
| 2023 | ICSE | Improving Grading Outcomes in Software Engineering Projects Through Automated Contributions Summaries. | Kai Presler-Marshall, Sarah Heckman, Kathryn T. Stolee |
| 2023 | ITiCSE | An Experience Report on Introducing Explicit Strategies into Testing Checklists for Advanced Beginners. | Gina R. Bai, Sandeep Sthapit, Sarah Heckman, Thomas W. Price, Kathryn T. Stolee |
| 2023 | ITiCSE | Building Recommendations for Conducting Equity-Focused, High Quality K-12 Computer Science Education Research. | Monica M. McGill, Sarah Heckman, Christos Chytas, Lien Diaz, Michael Liut, Vera A. Kazakova, Ismaila Temitayo Sanusi, Selina Marianna Shah, Claudia Szabo |
| 2023 | ITiCSE | Conducting Sound, Equity-Enabling Computing Education Research. | Monica M. McGill, Sarah Heckman, Christos Chytas, Michael Liut, Vera A. Kazakova, Ismaila Temitayo Sanusi, Selina Marianna Shah, Claudia Szabo |
| 2023 | ITiCSE | Assessment of Self-Identified Learning Struggles in CS2 Programming Assignments. | Matthew Zahn, Isabella Gransbury, Sarah Heckman, Lina Battestilli |
| 2023 | SIGCSE | Building upon the CAPE Framework for Broader Understanding of Capacity in K-12 CS Education. | Monica M. McGill, Angelica Thompson, Isabella Gransbury, Sarah Heckman, Jennifer Rosato, Leigh Ann DeLyser |
| 2023 | SIGCSE | Observations on Student Help-Seeking Behaviors in Introductory Computer Science Courses. | Matthew Zahn, Sarah Heckman |
| 2022 | EDM | Admitting you have a problem is the first step: Modeling when and why students seek help in programming assignments. | Zhikai Gao, Bradley Erickson, Yiqiao Xu, Collin F. Lynch, Sarah Heckman, Tiffany Barnes |
| 2022 | ICER | A Framework of Factors that Influence Academic Achievement in Computer Science within Capacity, Access, Participation and Experience. | Isabella Gransbury, Monica M. McGill, Angelica Thompson, Sarah Heckman, Jennifer Rosato, Leigh Ann DeLyser |
| 2022 | ICER | What Makes Team[s] Work? A Study of Team Characteristics in Software Engineering Projects. | Kai Presler-Marshall, Sarah Heckman, Kathryn T. Stolee |
| 2022 | SIGCSE | Training Computing Educators to Become Computing Education Researchers. | Jeffrey C. Carver, Sarah Heckman, Mark Sherriff |
| 2022 | SIGCSE | Characterizing Student Development Progress: Validating Student Adherence to Project Milestones. | Bradley Erickson, Sarah Heckman, Collin F. Lynch |
| 2022 | SIGCSE | Who Uses Office Hours?: A Comparison of In-Person and Virtual Office Hours Utilization. | Zhikai Gao, Sarah Heckman, Collin F. Lynch |
| 2022 | SIGCSE | Designing a Dashboard for Student Teamwork Analysis. | Niki Gitinabard, Sarah Heckman, Tiffany Barnes, Collin F. Lynch |
| 2022 | SIGCSE | Academic Middle Management: Undergraduate Leadership in Computing Programs. | Sarah Heckman, Mia Minnes |
| 2022 | SIGCSE | Don't Just Paste Your Stacktrace: Shaping Discussion Forums in Introductory CS Courses. | Amogh Mannekote, Mehmet Celepkolu, Aisha Chung Galdo, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Maya Israel, Sarah Heckman, Kristin Stephens-Martinez |
| 2022 | SIGCSE | Identifying Struggling Teams in Software Engineering Courses Through Weekly Surveys. | Kai Presler-Marshall, Sarah Heckman, Kathryn T. Stolee |
| 2021 | EDM | Automatically classifying student help requests: a multi-year analysis. | Zhikai Gao, Collin F. Lynch, Sarah Heckman, Tiffany Barnes |
| 2021 | ICSE | SQLRepair: Identifying and Repairing Mistakes in Student-Authored SQL Queries. | Kai Presler-Marshall, Sarah Heckman, Kathryn T. Stolee |
| 2021 | SIGCSE | Online Vs Face-to-face Web-development Course: Course Strategies, Learning, and Engagement. | Debarati Basu, Sarah Heckman, Mary Lou Maher |
| 2020 | EDM | Student Teamwork on Programming Projects. What can GitHub logs show us? | Niki Gitinabard, Ruth Okoilu, Yiqiao Xu, Sarah Heckman, Tiffany Barnes, Collin F. Lynch |
| 2020 | ICST | Integrating Testing Throughout the CS Curriculum. | Sarah Heckman, Jessica Young Schmidt, Jason King |
| 2019 | EDM | What will you do next? A sequence analysis on the student transitions between online platforms in blended courses. | Niki Gitinabard, Tiffany Barnes, Sarah Heckman, Collin F. Lynch |
| 2019 | ICSE | Wait wait. No, tell me: analyzing selenium configuration effects on test flakiness. | Kai Presler-Marshall, Eric Horton, Sarah Heckman, Kathryn T. Stolee |
| 2018 | EDM | Predicting Student Performance Based on Online Study Habits: A Study of Blended Courses. | Adithya Sheshadri, Niki Gitinabard, Collin F. Lynch, Tiffany Barnes, Sarah Heckman |
| 2018 | ICSE | 10+ years of teaching software engineering with itrust: the good, the bad, and the ugly. | Sarah Heckman, Kathryn T. Stolee, Christopher Parnin |
| 2018 | SIGCSE | Designing Empirical Education Research Studies (DEERS): Creating an Answerable Research Question (Abstract Only). | Jeffrey C. Carver, Sarah Heckman, Mark Sherriff |
| 2018 | SIGCSE | Developing Software Engineering Skills using Real Tools for Automated Grading. | Sarah Heckman, Jason King |
| 2017 | EDM | Identifying student communities in blended courses. | Niki Gitinabard, Collin F. Lynch, Sarah Heckman, Tiffany Barnes |
| 2017 | SIGCSE | Designing Empirical Education Research Studies (DEERS): Creating an Answerable Research Question (Abstract Only). | Sarah Heckman, Jeffrey C. Carver, Mark Sherriff |
| 2017 | SIGCSE | My Digital Hand: A Tool for Scaling Up One-to-One Peer Teaching in Support of Computer Science Learning. | Aaron J. Smith, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Jeffrey Forbes, Sarah Heckman, Ketan Mayer-Patel |
| 2017 | SIGCSE | Deconstructing the Discussion Forum: Student Questions and Computer Science Learning. | Mickey Vellukunnel, Philip Sheridan Buffum, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Jeffrey Forbes, Sarah Heckman, Ketan Mayer-Patel |
| 2016 | SIGCSE | A (Updated) Review of Empiricism at the SIGCSE Technical Symposium. | Ahmed Al-Zubidy, Jeffrey C. Carver, Sarah Heckman, Mark Sherriff |
| 2016 | SIGCSE | Teaching Software Engineering Skills in CS1.5: Incorporating Real-world Practices and Tools (Abstract Only). | Sarah Heckman, Jason King |
| 2015 | ICSE | CS/SE Instructors Can Improve Student Writing without Reducing Class Time Devoted to Technical Content: Experimental Results. | Paul V. Anderson, Sarah Heckman, Mladen A. Vouk, David Wright, Michael Carter, Janet E. Burge, Gerald C. Gannod |
| 2015 | SIGCSE | Automating Software Engineering Best Practices Using an Open Source Continuous Integration Framework (Abstract Only). | Sarah Heckman, Jason King, Michael Winters |
| 2015 | SIGCSE | Empirical Research in CS Education (Abstract Only). | Mark Sherriff, Sarah Heckman |