Sue Fitzgerald
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Carbone, A., Mannila, L. and Fitzgerald, S. Computer Science and IT Teachers' Conceptions of Successful and Unsuccessful Teaching: A Phenomenographic Study, Computer Science Education, vol. 17, no. 4 (December, 2007) (to appear).

Lister, R., Berglund, A., Box, I., Cope, C., Pears, A., Avram, C., Bower, M., Carbone, A., Davey, B., de Raadt, M., Doyle, B., Fitzgerald, S., Mannila, L., Kutay, C., Peltomki, M., Sheard, J., Simon , Sutton, K., Traynor, D., Tutty, J. and Venables, A. Differing Ways that Computing Academics Understand Teaching. In Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology, Vol 66, Samuel Mann & Simon, Eds. Presented at Ninth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2007), Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, January 2007.

Lister, R., Adams, E., Fitzgerald, S., Fone, W., Hamer, J., Lindholm, M. McCartney, R., Mostrm, J. E., Sanders, K., Seppl, O., Simon, B. and Thomas, L., A Multi-National Study of Reading and Tracing Skills in Novice Programmers, reprinted with commentary in Annals of Research on Engineering Education (http://www.areeonline.org), 2006.

Sue Fitzgerald, Beth Simon and Lynda Thomas, Strategies that Students Use to Trace Code: An Analysis Based in Grounded Theory, First International Computer Science Education Research (ICER) Workshop, Oct. 1-2, 2005, Seattle, WA.

Sanders, K., Bouvier, D., Fincher, S., Lewandowski, G., Morrison, B., Murphy, L., Petre, M., Tenenberg, J., Thomas, L., Anderson, R., Anderson, R., Fitzgerald, S., Gutschow, A., Haller, A., Jadud, M., Lister, R., McCauley, R., McTaggart, J., Prasad, C., Richards, B., Scott, T., Shinners-Kennedy, D., Westbrook, S. and Zander, C. A multi-institutional, multinational study of programming concepts using card sort data, Expert Systems, vol 22, no. 3 (2005): 121-128.

Gottschalk, L., Liu, J., Dathan, B., Fitzgerald, S., and Stein, M., "Computer Forensics Programs in Higher Education: A Preliminary Study," In the Proceedings of the Thirty-sixth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE Bulletin, vol. 37, no. 1 (Feb. 2005): 147-151.

Lister, R., Adams, E., Fitzgerald, S., Fone, W., Hamer, J., Lindholm, M. McCartney, R., Moström, J. E., Sanders, K., Seppälä, O., Simon, B. and Thomas, L. "A multi-national study of reading and tracing skills in novice programmers," SIGCSE Bulletin, vol. 36, no. 4 (December 2004): 119-150 (ITiCSE Working Group Report).

Petre, M., Fincher, S., Tenenberg, J., Anderson, R., Anderson, R., Bouvier, D., Fitzgerald, S., Gutschow, A., Haller, S., Jadud, M., Lewandowski, G., Lister, R., McCauley, R., McTaggart, J., Morrison, B., Murphy, L., Prasad, C., Richards, B., Sanders, K., Scott, T., Shinners-Kennedy, D., Thomas, L., Westbrook, S. and Zander, C., "’My Criterion is: Is it a Boolean?’: A card-sort elicitation of students' knowledge of programming constructs,” Technical Report 6-03, Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, UK, June 2003 (http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2003/1682).

Mengel, S., Fitzgerald, S., Knoke, P., Lee, J., McCracken, M., McGettrick, A., Murphy, M., Martínez, M., Tockey, S. and Underwood, A. "Pedagogy Focus Group 4: Professional Practices Report," primary source document for the final report of the Joint IEEE/ACM Computing Curriculum 2001 project (unpublished).

Fitzgerald, S. "Measuring Learning Outcomes in a Competency-Based CS 2 Course," In the Proceedings of the 31st Annual Small College Computing Symposium (April 16-18, 1998, Fargo, ND): 95-103 (presented at the 31st Annual Small College Computing Symposium).

Fitzgerald, S., Place, J. and van de Liefvoort, A. "Generating bursty random variables using Matrix Exponential distributions," Proc. ICSEE '96, SCS Simulation Series, 28 (1996): 205-8 (presented at Communication Networks Modeling and Simulation Conference (part of the 1996 Western MultiConference).

Fitzgerald, S. Modeling Self-Similar Traffic Using Matrix Exponentials, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 1996.

Fitzgerald, S. and Hines, M. L. "The Computer Science Fair: An Alternative to the Computer Programming Contest." In the Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (1996). SIGCSE Bulletin, vol. 28, no. 1 (March 1996): 368-372 (presented at the Twenty-Sixth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education.)

Place, J. and Fitzgerald, S. "Teaching Elementary Queue Theory with a Computer Algebra System." In The Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE Bulletin, vol. 27, no. 1 (March 1995): 350-354 (presented at the Twenty-Sixth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education by J. Place).

Fitzgerald, S. and Place, J. "A Simulation Study of a Multi-channel Adaptive Routing Protocol." In Proceedings of Society for Computer Simulation International Conference on Simulation Engineering Education (SCS ICSEE) '95, Las Vegas NE, Jan. 15-18, 1995: 239-42 (presented at SCS ICSEE by Jerry Place).

Fitzgerald, S. and Place, J. "Using a Computer Algebra System (Maple) to Teach Elementary Queueing Theory." Journal of Computer Applications in Engineering Education, v. 3, n. 4, 65--73 (1995).

Fitzgerald, S. "Introduction to Programming Using C++ Lab Manual." Rockhurst College, 1994, 1995.

Fitzgerald, S. "A Project for a Computer Networking Course, Applying Theory to Practice." The Journal of Computing in Small Colleges, v.9, n.3, 2-6 (Jan. 1994).

Fitzgerald, S. and Caulfield, J. "Cooperative Group Learning: A Viable Strategy for Computer-Based Laboratories?" The Journal of Computing in Small Colleges, v.7, n.5, 111-121 (May 1992).

Patent pending for Object Oriented Diagnostic Supervisor as Applied to Well Logging Instrumentation Research, 1990.

Fitzgerald, S. "Computers: Concepts and Uses Lab Manual." Rockhurst College, 1989.