Christine Liebe, holds a PhD in Education: Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment, and is a computer science educational researcher and postdoctoral fellow with Colorado School of Mines. Her research interests include K-12 computer science teacher education, abstraction, computational thinking, critical thinking, and learning through research. Christine has founded two vocational schools that offer professional massage therapy certification and vocational teaching certification. Applying herself to pursuits that promote healing, creativity, self-expression, and financial self-sufficiency, Christine has made it her mission to promote computer science, creativity, connectedness, and sustainable communities.
Contact: cliebe@mines.edu or @LiebeChristine
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Quille, K., McGill, M., Vivian, R., Falkner, K., Sentence, S., Barksdale, S., Busuttil, L., Cole, E., Liebe, C., Maiorana. (2020). An International Pilot Study of K-12 Teachers’ Computer Science Self-Esteem. International Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE ’20), Trondheim, Norway. ACM (pending publication)
Liebe, C., Camp, T. (2019). An Examination of Abstraction in K-12 Computer Science Education. In 19th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research (Koli Calling ’19). Koli, Finland. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 9 pages https://doi.org/10.1145/3364510.3364526
Falkner, K., Sentence, S., Vivian, R., Barksdale, S., Busuttil, L., Cole, E., Liebe, C., Maiorana, F., McGill, M., Quille, K. (2019). An International Comparison of K-12 Computer Science Education Intended and Enacted Curricula. In Proceedings of Koli Calling ’19: 19th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research (Koli Calling ’19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 10 pages https://doi.org/10.1145/1122445.1122456
Falkner, K., Sentence, S., Vivian, R., Barksdale, S., Busuttil, L., Cole, E., Liebe, C., Maiorana, F., McGill, M., Quille, K. (2019). An International Study Piloting the MEasuring TeacheR Enacted
Computing Curriculum (METRECC) Instrument. International Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE ’19), Aberdeen, Scotland Uk. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 30 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3304221.3325535
Camp, T., Liebe, C., Slattery, M. (2020). Applying NCWIT Protocol to Broadening Participation in Computing: A Case Study of CS@Mines. Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2020), Portland, OR. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 6 pages. https://doi.org/ 10.1145/3328778.3366958
Liebe, C. L. (2019). Dissertation: An Examination of Abstraction in K-12 Computer Science Education.
Liebe, C. (2017). Comparison of Abstraction in Computer Coding and in Critical Thinking. In P. Resta & S. Smith (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (pp. 1394-1402). Chesapeake, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).
CLiebe Teaching Philosophy 3.19
Certified in Computing Fundamentals – Certiport, July 2017
