ACM Transactions on Computing Education

ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE, pronounced “tose”) publishes high quality, peer-reviewed research articles on all aspects of computing education of interest to computing education researchers, computing educators, instructional designers, teacher educators, school administrators, policy makers, and other stakeholders.

The topics covered by TOCE span all aspects of computing education at the individual, group, community, organizational, systems, and policy levels:

• Any age, from young children to the elderly;
• Any learning or teaching context, including primary, secondary, post-secondary, professional, and informal learning;
• Any topic within computing education, including historical foundations of computer science, computing and society, computer engineering, software engineering, information systems, information technology, informatics, data science, and integrations between computing and other computing-adjacent disciplines;
• Any aspect of computing education, including but not limited to: teaching, learning, literacy, identity, culture, community, policy, diversity, ethics, equity, inclusion, justice, reform, and advocacy;
• Any type of research contribution that advances learning and/or teaching about computing, including, but not limited to: novel empirical studies, theories, arguments, research methods, educational technologies, teaching methods, tools, curricula, and policies;
• Any epistemology, including but not limited to: positivist, post-positivist, and interpretivist, and critical theory;
• Any method, including but not limited to: quantitative methods, qualitative methods, design methods, historical methods, mixed methods of any combination, and novel arguments.

• The journal does not publish experience reports. However, research papers that examine specific cases through case study or action research methodologies, for example, are welcome, as long as they are clearly situated in prior research and pose research questions.
• The journal considers manuscripts on educational technologies, but only if they are specifically applied to learning about computing and are clearly situated in prior research, pose research questions, and use research methods to answer them.
• The journal considers manuscripts that investigate learning with computers, but only if the learning is about computing. Submissions about learning that only happen to involve computers are out of scope.
• The journal considers manuscripts about integrations between computing and other disciplines, but only if they reveal insights about the teaching and learning of computing.