Francisco Castro
Education:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, PhD Computer Science
Current Ateneo de Manila University, Master in Information Technology, 2014
University of the Philippines Los Banos, BS Computer Science, 2010
Francis is a PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science at WPI. His primary interests include computing education, educational technologies, learning sciences, and HCI. His primary work investigates how people learn programming and program design by exploring the cognitive factors involved in computing and problem solving, human interactions with tools and technology (e.g. languages, environments), and the contexts in which they are learning (e.g. functional/OO and computing pedagogy).
Office Location
Fuller Laboratories 314
Contact
Phone:
774-670-7329
Lab website
Research Interests
Research Interests:
Computing education
Educational technologies
Learning sciences
HCI
Scholarly Work
Scholarly Work:
Francisco Castro. 2016. Pedagogy and Measurement of Program Planning Skills. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research. ICER ’16. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 273–274.
Francisco Castro and Kathi Fisler. 2016.On the Interplay Between Bottom-Up and Datatype- Driven Program Design. 47th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. SIGCSE 2016. Memphis, Tennessee
Francisco Castro. 2015. Investigating Novice Programmers’ Plan Composition Strategies. In Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual International Conference on International Computing Education Research. ICER ’15. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 249–250.
Francisco Castro, Seth Adjei, Tyler Colombo, and Neil Heffernan. 2015. Building Models to Predict Hint-or- Attempt Actions of Students. The 8th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (Madrid, Spain, 26-29 June 2015).
Regina Estuar, Dennis Batangan, Andrei Coronel, Francisco Castro, Anna Amarra, Rose Caliso, and John Vergara. 2014. eHealth TABLET: A Developing Country Perspective in Managing the Development and Deployment of a Mobile - Cloud Electronic Medical Record
Mercedes Rodrigo, Thor Andallaza, Francisco Castro, Marc Armenta, Thomas Dy, and Matthew Jadud. 2013. An Analysis of Java Programming Behaviors, Affect, Perceptions, and Syntax Errors among Low-Achieving, Average, and High-Achieving Novice Programmers.
Regina Estuar, Dennis Batangan, Andrei Coronel, Anna Amarra, and Francisco Castro. 2013. Bottom Up Approach and Devolved Design of a Health Information System: eHealth TABLET. Brain and Health Informatics. Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
Francisco Castro and Jaderick Pabico. 2013. A Study on the Effect of Exit Widths and Crowd Sizes in the Formation of Arch in Clogged Crowds. Philippine Computing Journal. Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 21-29
Francisco Castro and Jaderick Pabico. 2013. Microsimulations of Arching, Clogging, and Bursty Exit Phenomena in Crowd Dynamics. Philippine Information Technology Journal. Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 11-16. (Best Paper)