Violetta Lonati

Pubblications - Computing education

Conference proceedings

  1. Erik Barendsen, Violetta Lonati, Keith Quille, Rukiye Altin, Monica Divitini, Sara Hooshangi, Oscar Karnalim, Natalie Kiesler, Madison Melton, Calkin Suero Montero, and Anna Morpurgo. AI in and for K-12 Informatics Education. Life after Generative AI. In Proceedings of the 2024 on ACM Virtual Global Computing Education Conference V. 2 (SIGCSE Virtual 2024). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 279–280. https://doi.org/10.1145/3649409.3691073
  2. C. Bellettini, V. Lonati, M. Monga, A. Morpurgo. To Be Or Not To Be... An Algorithm: The Notion According to Students and Teachers - In: SIGCSE TS 2024: Proceedings. ACM, 2024 Mar. pp. 102-108 [10.1145/3626252.3630950].
  3. M. Begum, J. Crossley, F. Strömbäck, E. Akrida, I. Alpizar-Chacon, A. Evans, J.B. Gross, P. Haglund, V. Lonati, C. Satyavolu, S. Thorgeirsson. Designing a Pedagogical Framework for Developing Abstraction Skills. In: convegno ITiCSE 2024: Proceedings of the on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. ACM, 2024. - pp. 769-770 [10.1145/3649405.3659533].
  4. C. Bellettini, V. Lonati, M. Monga, A. Morpurgo. All Green: How Different Age Groups Solved the Same Bebras Task - In: Informatics in Schools. Beyond Bits and Bytes: Nurturing Informatics Intelligence in Education. ISSEP 2023 / [a cura di] JP. Pellet, G. Parriaux. LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE. Springer, 2023 Oct. - ISBN 978-3-031-44899-7. - pp. 57-68 [10.1007/978-3-031-44900-0_5].
  5. C. Bellettini, M. Lodi, V. Lonati, M. Monga, A. Morpurgo. DaVinci Goes to Bebras: A Study on the Problem Solving Ability of GPT-3 - In: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer Supported Education. 2: CSEDU / [a cura di] J. Jovanovic, I.-A. Chounta, J. Uhomoibhi, B. McLaren. - [s.l] : SciTePress, 2023. - ISBN 978-989-758-641-5. - pp. 59-69 [10.5220/0012007500003470].
  6. Sara Capecchi, Michael Lodi, Violetta Lonati, and Marco Sbaraglia. 2023. Castle and Stairs to Learn Iteration: Co-designing a UMC Learning Module with Teachers. In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 1 (ITiCSE 2023). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 222–228. https://doi.org/10.1145/3587102.3588793
  7. Violetta Lonati, Andrej Brodnik, Tim Bell, Andrew Paul Csizmadia, Liesbeth De Mol, Henry Hickman, Therese Keane, Claudio Mirolo, and Mattia Monga. What We Talk About When We Talk About Programs. In Proceedings of the 2022 Working Group Reports on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE-WGR '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 117–164. https://doi.org/10.1145/3571785.3574125
  8. V. Lonati, A. Brodnik, T. Bell, A.P. Csizmadia, L. De Mol, H. Hickman, T. Keane, C. Mirolo, M. Monga, M. Tedre. Characterizing the Nature of Programs for educational purposes. In Proceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE), Vol. 2. 2022. p. 572-573.
  9. C. Bellettini, V. Lonati, M. Monga, A. Morpurgo. How is Two Better Than One? An Observational Study on the Impact of Working in Pairs When Solving Bebras Tasks. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution, and Perspectives (ISSEP). 2022. p. 54-65. Best Paper Award.
  10. Cruz Izu, Violetta Lonati, Anna Morpurgo, Mario Sanchez. An Inventory of Goals from CS1 Programs Processing a Data Series. FIE 2021: 1-8
  11. Violetta Lonati, Anna Morpurgo: Fostering Strategic Knowledge and Program Comprehension Skills in Students Struggling with CS1. SIGCSE 2021: 1301
  12. Umberto Costantini, Violetta Lonati, Anna Morpurgo Toward an Inventory of Plans and Patterns, and Their Use to Foster Strategic Knowledge in Programming Novices. ICER 2020: 305
  13. Greg L. Nelson, Filip Strömbäck, Ari Korhonen, Marjahan Begum, Ben Blamey, Karen H. Jin, Violetta Lonati, Bonnie K. MacKellar, Mattia Monga Differentiated Assessments for Advanced Courses that Reveal Issues with Prerequisite Skills: A Design Investigation. ITiCSE (Working Group Reports) 2020: 75-129
  14. Greg L. Nelson, Filip Strömbäck, Ari Korhonen, Ibrahim Albluwi, Marjahan Begum, Ben Blamey, Karen H. Jin, Violetta Lonati, Bonnie K. MacKellar, Mattia Monga. Assessing How Pre-requisite Skills Affect Learning of Advanced Concepts. ITiCSE 2020: 506-507
  15. Umberto Costantini, Violetta Lonati, Anna Morpurgo. How Plans Occur in Novices' Programs: A Method to Evaluate Program-Writing Skills. SIGCSE 2020: 852-858
  16. Carlo Bellettini, Violetta Lonati, Mattia Monga, Anna Morpurgo. How Pupils Solve Online Problems: An Analytical View. CSEDU (2) 2019: 132-139
  17. Carlo Bellettini, Violetta Lonati, Mattia Monga, Anna Morpurgo. Behind the Shoulders of Bebras Teams: Analyzing How They Interact with the Platform to Solve Tasks. CSEDU (Selected Papers) 2019: 191-210
  18. Carlo Bellettini, Violetta Lonati, Mattia Monga, Anna Morpurgo. An Analysis of the Performance of Italian Schools in Bebras and in the National Student Assessment INVALSI. TACKLE@EC-TEL 2019
  19. Carlo Bellettini, Violetta Lonati, Mattia Monga, Anna Morpurgo, Martina Palazzolo: Situated Learning with Bebras Tasklets. ISSEP 2019: 225-239
  20. Cruz Izu, Carsten Schulte, Ashish Aggarwal, Quintin I. Cutts, Rodrigo Duran, Mirela Gutica, Birte Heinemann, Eileen T. Kraemer, Violetta Lonati, Claudio Mirolo, Renske Weeda.Fostering Program Comprehension in Novice Programmers - Learning Activities and Learning Trajectories. ITiCSE (Working Group Reports) 2019: 27-52
  21. Cruz Izu, Carsten Schulte, Ashish Aggarwal, Quintin I. Cutts, Rodrigo Duran, Mirela Gutica, Birte Heinemann, Eileen T. Kraemer, Violetta Lonati, Claudio Mirolo, Renske Weeda. Program Comprehension: Identifying Learning Trajectories for Novice Programmers. ITiCSE 2019: 261-262
  22. Carlo Bellettini, Fabrizio Carimati, Violetta Lonati, Riccardo Macoratti, Dario Malchiodi, Mattia Monga, Anna Morpurgo. A Platform for the Italian Bebras. CSEDU (1) 2018: 350-357
  23. Luca Forlizzi, Michael Lodi, Violetta Lonati, Claudio Mirolo, Mattia Monga, Alberto Montresor, Anna Morpurgo, Enrico Nardelli. A Core Informatics Curriculum for Italian Compulsory Education. ISSEP 2018: 141-153
  24. Carlo Bellettini, Violetta Lonati, Dario Malchiodi, Mattia Monga, Anna Morpurgo: Informatics and Computational Thinking: A Teacher Professional Development Proposal Based on Social-Constructivism. ISSEP 2018: 194-205
  25. Giuseppe Chiazzese, Marco Arrigo, Antonella Chifari, Violetta Lonati, Crispino Tosto: Exploring the Effect of a Robotics Laboratory on Computational Thinking Skills in Primary School Children Using the Bebras Tasks. TEEM 2018: 25-30
  26. V. Lonati, M. Monga, A. Morpurgo, D. Malchiodi, A. Calcagni. Promoting computational thinking skills: would you use this Bebras task?, Proceedings of the international conference on informatics in schools: situation, evolution and perspectives (ISSEP2017) Helsinki, Finland, 2017
  27. V. Lonati, D. Malchiodi, M. Monga, A. Morpurgo. How presentation affects the difficulty of computational thinking tasks: an IRT analysis., Proceedings of the 17th Koli Calling international conference on computing education research Koli, Finland, 2017
  28. V. Lonati, D. Malchiodi, M. Monga, A. Morpurgo. Learning greedy strategies at secondary schools: an active approach, Optimization and decision science: methodologies and applications: ODS, Sorrento, Italy, september 4-7, 2017 Sorrento, Italy, 2017
  29. V. Lonati, D. Malchiodi, M. Monga, A. Morpurgo. Bebras as a teaching resource: classifying the tasks corpus using computational thinking skills, Proceedings of the 22nd annual conference on innovation and technology in computer science education (ITiCSE 2017) Bologna, Italy, 2017
  30. V. Lonati, D. Malchiodi, M. Monga, A. Morpurgo. Nothing to fear but fear itself: introducing recursion in lower secondary schools, International conference on learning and teaching in computing and engineering (LaTICE 2017) Hong Kong, 2017
  31. V. Lonati, D. Malchiodi, M. Monga, A. Morpurgo. A playful tool to introduce lower secondary school pupils to recursive thinking, 9th international conference on informatics in schools: situation, evolution, and perspective Münster, Germany, 2016
  32. V. Lonati, D. Malchiodi, M. Monga, A. Morpurgo. Is coding the way to go?, In proceedings of ISSEP 2015 - 8th International conference on informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution, and Perspective, Ljubljana (Slovenia), September 28-October 1, 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, to appear.
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  33. C. Bellettini, V. Lonati, D. Malchiodi, M. Monga, A. Morpurgo, M. Torelli. How challenging are Bebras tasks? An IRT analysis based on the performance of Italian students, ITiCSE 2015, Lithuania, July, 6-8, 2015. In Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, pag 27-32, ACM.
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  34. C. Bellettini, V. Lonati, D. Malchiodi, M. Monga, A. Morpurgo, M. Torelli, L. Zecca. Extracurricular activities for improving the perception of Informatics in Secondary schools, In Proceedings of ISSEP 2014 - 7th International conference on informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution, and Perspective, September, 22-25, Istanbul. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol: 8730: 161-172, 2014.
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  35. C. Bellettini, V. Lonati, D. Malchiodi, M. Monga, A. Morpurgo, M. Torelli. Teaching informatics for fun and profit, In Proceedings of the international workshop on Science education and guidance in schools: the way forward, Firenze, Italy, 2013.
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  36. C. Bellettini, V. Lonati, D. Malchiodi, M. Monga, A. Morpurgo, M. Torelli. What you see is what you have in mind: constructing mental models for formatted text processing. In Proceedings of ISSEP 2013 - 6th International conference on informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution, and Perspective, 26 February-2 March, Oldenburg, Germany.
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  37. C. Bellettini, V. Lonati, D. Malchiodi, M. Monga, A. Morpurgo, M. Torelli. Exploring the processing of formatted texts by a kynesthetic approach. In Poster Proceedings of WiPSCE 2012 - 7th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education, November 8-9, Hamburg, Germany.
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  38. V. Lonati, M. Monga, A. Morpurgo, M. Torelli. What's the Fun in Informatics? Working to Capture Children and Teachers into the Pleasure of Computing In Proceedings of ISSEP 2011 - Informatics in Schools: Contributing to 21st Century Education, 26-29 ottobre, Bratislava. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol: 7013: 213-224, 2011.
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  39. A. Lissoni, V. Lonati, M. Monga, A. Morpurgo, M. Torelli. Working for a leap in the general perception of computing. Proceedings of informatics education europe III, Venice, Italy, 2008, pp134.
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  40. A. Lissoni, V. Lonati, M. Monga, A. Morpurgo, R. Raimondi, M. Torelli. Primi salti del Kangourou dell'informatica. Atti del convegno DIDAMATICA 2008, Taranto, 28-30 Aprile 2008.
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Journal papers

  1. M. Begum, P. Haglund, A. Korhonen, V. Lonati, M. Monga, F. Strömbäck, A. Tilanterä. Empirical Evaluation of a Differentiated Assessment of Data Structures: The Role of Prerequisite Skills In: INFORMATICS IN EDUCATION. - ISSN 1648-5831. - 23:1(2024), pp. 57-99. [10.15388/infedu.2024.05]
  2. Claudio Mirolo, Cruz Izu, Violetta Lonati, Emanuele Scapin. Abstraction in Computer Science Education: An Overview. Informatics Educ. 20(4): 615-639 (2021)
  3. Violetta Lonati: Getting Inspired by Bebras Tasks. How Italian Teachers Elaborate on Computing Topics. Informatics Educ. 19(4): 669-699 (2020)
  4. Giuseppe Chiazzese, Marco Arrigo, Antonella Chifari, Violetta Lonati, Crispino Tosto. Educational Robotics in Primary School: Measuring the Development of Computational Thinking Skills with the Bebras Tasks. Informatics 6(4): 43 (2019)
  5. C. Bellettini, V. Lonati, D. Malchiodi, M. Monga, A. Morpurgo, M. Torelli, L. Zecca. Informatics education in Italian secondary school, ACM Transactions on Computing Education 14(2) 6/2014

Other pubblications (in Italian)

  1. V. Lonati, C. Mirolo, M. Monga. Di cosa parliamo quando parliamo di 'programmi'. Didamatica 2022, Milano, Italia, 2022
  2. V. Lonati. Sull’informatica come scienza e sul perché insegnarla nella scuola del primo ciclo. OPPInformazioni, 128 (2020), 77-85 Tecnologie e competenze: esperienze in presenza e a distanza 77.
  3. C. Bellettini, V. Lonati, D. Malchiodi, M. Monga, A. Morpurgo. Algomotricità: manipolare i fondamenti dell’informatica. In Coding e oltre: l'informatica nella scuola. Lisciani Scuola, 2020.
  4. C. Bellettini, V. Lonati, D. Malchiodi, M. Monga, A. Morpurgo. Informatica e pensiero computazionale: una proposta costruttivista per gli insegnanti, Didamatica 2018, Cesena, Italia, 2018
  5. C. Bellettini, V. Lonati, D. Malchiodi, M. Monga, A. Morpurgo, F. Pedersini. La formazione degli insegnanti della classe 42/A — Informatica: l'esperienza dell'Università degli Studi di Milano. In: E questo tutti chiamano Informatica. L'esperienza dei TFA nelle discipline informatiche, Collana Manuali 14 Sapienza Università Editrice Roma, Italia, 2015.

  6. V. Lonati, M. Monga, A. Morpurgo, N. Rebagliati, L. Repetto, M. Torelli.
    Kangourou dell'Informatica 2011. Testi soluzioni e commenti.
    Edizioni Kangourou Italia, 2011.

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  7. V. Lonati, M. Monga, A. Morpurgo, L. Repetto, M. Torelli.
    Testi, soluzioni e commenti della gara Kangourou dell'informatica 2010.
    Edizioni Kangourou Italia, 2010.

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  8. A cura di E. Barboglio, F. Carimati, A. Compagnoni, F. Filippazzi, M. Italiani, A. Lissoni, V. Lonati, M. Monga, A. Morpurgo, R. Raimondi, N. Rebagliati, L. Repetto, M. Torelli.
    Testi, soluzioni e commenti della gara Kangourou dell'informatica 2009.
    Edizioni Kangourou Italia, 2009.

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