Daniel Zingaro Explained

Daniel Zingaro
Citizenship:	Canadian
Alma Mater:	McMaster University, University of Toronto
Discipline:	Computer Science, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Workplaces:	University of Toronto Mississauga

Daniel Zingaro is an associate professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga.^[1] His main areas of research are in evaluating Computer science education and online learning.^[2] He has co-authored over 80 articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences; and also authored a textbook, "Invariants: a Generative Approach to Programming.^[3]

Born visually impaired, Zingaro completed B.Sc. and M.Sc. in computer science from McMaster University. He then received a Ph.D. from Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto in Computer Science Education.^[4] His master's thesis was about formalizing and proving properties of parsers.^[5] His doctoral thesis was titled " Evaluating Peer Instruction in First-year University Computer Science Courses".^[6] Daniel Zingaro designed accessible computer games and published work in Computers & Education, International Computing Education Research (ICER) conference, Computer Science Education, British Journal of Educational Technology, and Transactions on Computing Education.

Selected publications

• Oztok. Murat. Zingaro. Daniel. Brett. Clare. Hewitt. Jim. 2013. Exploring asynchronous and synchronous tool use in online courses. Computers & Education. en-ca. 60. 1. 87–94. 10.1016/j.compedu.2012.08.007. 0360-1315. 10.1.1.705.9990.
• Zingaro. Daniel. Porter. Leo. 2014-02-01. Peer Instruction in computing: The value of instructor intervention. Computers & Education. 71. 87–96. 10.1016/j.compedu.2013.09.015. 0360-1315.
• 10.1080/14926156.2014.903322. Introduction to the Special Issue on Graduate Student Innovations in Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education Research. 2014. Atkinson. Daniel. Dookie. Lesley. Jagger. Susan. Jao. Limin. Kim. Vivien. Oztok. Murat. Romkey. Lisa. Tan. Michael. Thomas. Reed. Zingaro. Daniel. 144054590. Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education. 14. 2. 109–119. 2014CJSMT..14..109A.
• Taylor. C.. Zingaro. D.. Porter. L.. Webb. K.C.. Lee. C.B.. Clancy. M.. 3402232. 2014-10-02. Computer science concept inventories: past and future. Computer Science Education. en. 24. 4. 253–276. 10.1080/08993408.2014.970779. 2014CSEd...24..253T. 0899-3408.
• Book: Porter. Leo. Zingaro. Daniel. Lister. Raymond. 10875262. 2014-07-28. Predicting student success using fine grain clicker data. ACM. 51–58. 10.1145/2632320.2632354. 9781450327558.
• Book: Zingaro, Daniel. Proceedings of the 45th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education . Peer instruction contributes to self-efficacy in CS1 . 1752471. 2014-03-05. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262394415. 373–378. 10.1145/2538862.2538878. 9781450326056.
• Book: Zingaro. Daniel. Makos. Alexandra. Sharmin. Sadia. Wang. Lindsay. Despres-Bedward. Antoine. Oztok. Murat. 2017-06-20. Student Moderators in Asynchronous Online Discussion: Scaffolding Their Questions. 198–202. en. 9781939797292.
• Zingaro. Daniel. 2015. Examining Interest and Grades in Computer Science 1: A Study of Pedagogy and Achievement Goals. ACM Transactions on Computing Education. 15. 3. 14:1–14:18. 10.1145/2802752. 18049836.
• Book: Zingaro, Daniel. 3456406. 2018. Achievement Goals in CS1: Replication and Extension. 687–692. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3159452. 10.1145/3159450.3159452. 978-1-4503-5103-4. Sigcse '18. Achievement Goals in CS1.
• Zingaro. Daniel. 2012. Student Moderators in Asynchronous Online Discussion: A Question of Questions. MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching . 8 . 3 . 159–173.

Awards

• ICER Best Paper Award, 2014^[7]
• SIGCSE 2016 best paper award^[8]
• JOLT 2012 best paper award^[9]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Zingaro, Dr. Daniel Mathematical & Computational Sciences. www.utm.utoronto.ca. en. 2018-08-10.
2. News: The "Guardians of UTM" are coming The Medium. 2015-11-16. The Medium. 2018-08-10. en-US.
3. Web site: College Publications - Computing. www.collegepublications.co.uk. 2018-08-10.
4. Web site: Usable Alternate Formats for Scientific Materials- Daniel Zingaro. NEADS Inc..
5. Web site: CS1 in Python Peer Instruction Materials Peer Instruction for Computer Science. www.peerinstruction4cs.org. en-US. 2018-08-10.
6. Daniel. Zingaro. 2014. Evaluating Peer Instruction in First-year University Computer Science Courses. Thesis. en.
7. Web site: Anyone Can Learn Programming: Teaching > Genetics blog@CACM Communications of the ACM. Guzdial. Mark. cacm.acm.org. 2018-08-10.
8. Web site: Faculty Awards Mathematical & Computational Sciences. www.utm.utoronto.ca. en. 2018-08-10.
9. Web site: MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, Volume 8, No. 3 . jolt.merlot.org. 2018-08-10.