Seth Poulsen
Ph.D. student at University of Illinois Computer Science. I'm interested in
Computing Education, Programming Language design and implementation, Math Education, and any interesting intersections
of the above.
My current research focuses on improving the teaching and learning of mathematical proofs, specifically using the
Proof Blocks tool which I created.
I have also been involved in various educational data mining projects.
Previously, I was a Software Engineer at Amazon.com, working on
Kindle Web Rendering and the Kindle Lite
Android app.
Contact
email:
sethp3@illinois.edu
Publications
Evaluating Proof Blocks as Exam Questions by Seth Poulsen, Mahesh Viswanathan, Geoffrey L. Herman, and Matthew West.
International Computing Education Research conference 2021
What's in a Linked List? A Phenomenographic Study of Data Structure Diagrams by Morgan Fong, Seth Poulsen, and Geoffrey L. Herman.
American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference 2021
Insights from Student Solutions to MongoDB Homework Problems by Ridha Alkhabaz, Seth Poulsen, Mei Chen, and Abdussalam Alawini.
Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education 2021
A Quantitative Analysis of Student Solutions to Graph Database Problems by Mei Chen, Seth Poulsen, Ridha Alkhabaz, and Abdussalam Alawini.
Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education 2021
Experiences and Lessons Learned Creating and Validating Concept Inventories for Cybersecurity
by Alan T. Sherman, Geoffrey L. Herman,Linda Oliva, Peter A. H. Peterson, Enis Golaszewski, Seth Poulsen, Travis Scheponik, and Akshita Gorti
National Cyber Summit (NCS) Research Track 2020
The Relationship Between Course Scheduling and Student Performance by Seth Poulsen, Carolyn J. Anderson, and Matthew West.
Educational Data Mining in Computer Science Education 2020
Insights from Student Solutions to SQL Homework Problems by Seth Poulsen, Liia Butler, Abdussalam Alawini, and Geoffrey L. Herman.
Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education 2020
The Effect of Additional Math in High School on College Success by Seth Poulsen.
The Mathemematics Educator 2019
Difference Sets Disjoint from a Subgroup by Courtney Hoagland, Stephen Humphries, Nathan Nicholson, and Seth Poulsen.
Graphs and Combinatorics 2019
Memory safety in C by abstract interpretation by Joseph Jones, James Wasson, Seth Poulsen, Sean Brown, Peter Aldous, and Eric Mercer.
Java PathFinder Workshop 2018
Preprints
Proof Blocks: Autogradeable Scaffolding Activities for Learning to Write Proofs by Seth Poulsen, Mahesh Viswanathan, Geoffrey L. Herman, and Matthew West.
Understanding Why: Statistical Techniques to Infer Causality are Underused in Computing Education Research by Seth Poulsen, Binglin Chen, Craig Zilles, and Matthew West.
Open Source
Teaching
- CS 173 (Discrete Mathematics) at UIUC with Madhusudan Parthasarathy, Spring 2021
- CS 173 (Discrete Mathematics) at UIUC with Mahesh Viswanathan, Fall 2020
- Math 112 (Calculus I) at BYU with Stephen Humphries, Fall 2017