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  1. Computing Education When Writing Code Is No Longer the Challenge

    Article • Communications of the ACM, August 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Rodrigo Duran, Titus Winters

  2. The Impostor Phenomenon in the Global Computing Graduate Student Population

    Article • October 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Rodrigo Duran, Angela Zavaleta Bernuy, Caroline Pechenik

  3. The Role of Virtual Doctoral Consortia in the Post-2025 Computer Science Education Landscape

    Article • October 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Rodrigo Duran

  4. Challenges and Solutions for Teaching Decomposition and Planning Skills in CS1

    Article • December 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mehmet Arif Demirtas, Rodrigo Duran

  5. Computer Science Education in Latin America and the Caribbean

    Article • ACM Inroads, February 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Rodrigo Duran

  6. Potential Factors for Retention and Intent to Drop-out in Brazilian Computing Programs

    Article • ACM Transactions on Computing Education, July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Rodrigo Duran

  7. Cognitive Load Theory in Computing Education Research: A Review

    Article • ACM Transactions on Computing Education, December 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Rodrigo Duran

  8. Parsons Problems and Beyond

    Article • December 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Rodrigo Duran, Assoc. Professor, Academic General Faculty Briana Baker Morrison, Juho Leinonen

  9. Planning a Multi-institutional and Multi-national Study of the Effectiveness of Parsons Problems

    Article • July 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Rodrigo Duran, Juho Leinonen, Assoc. Professor, Academic General Faculty Briana Baker Morrison

  10. Through (Tracking) Their Eyes: Abstraction and Complexity in Program Comprehension

    Article • ACM Transactions on Computing Education, June 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Philipp Kather, Rodrigo Duran

  11. Rules of Program Behavior

    Article • ACM Transactions on Computing Education, November 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Rodrigo Duran

  12. Retention in 2017--18 higher education computing programs in the United States

    Article • ACM Inroads, June 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Rodrigo Duran, Cara Tang

  13. Measuring the Cognitive Load of Learning to Program: A Replication Study

    Article • August 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Rodrigo Duran

  14. Improving Global Participation in the SIGCSE Technical Symposium

    Article • February 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Rodrigo Duran, Brett A Becker

  15. Gender Differences in Introductory Programming

    Article • February 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Rodrigo Duran

  16. Exploring the Value of Student Self-Evaluation in Introductory Programming

    Article • July 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Rodrigo Duran

  17. Towards an Instructional Design of Complex Learning in Introductory Programming Courses

    Article • August 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Rodrigo Duran

  18. Towards an Analysis of Program Complexity From a Cognitive Perspective

    Article • August 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Rodrigo Duran

  19. Towards a Fine-grained Analysis of Complexity of Programming Tasks

    Article • August 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Rodrigo Duran