Citing the ImageSTEAM program:
If you wish to cite the ImageSTEAM program in your research, please cite the following main paper in addition to the project website:
Suren Jayasuriya, Kimberlee Swisher, Joshua Rego, Sreenithy Chandran, John Mativo, Terri Kurz, Cerenity Collins, Dawn Robinson, Ramana Pidaparti, ImageSTEAM: Teacher Professional Development for Integrating Visual Computing into Middle School Lessons, The 14th Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI-24) 2024 [pdf]
Bibtex:
@inproceedings{jayasuriya2024imagesteam, title={ImageSTEAM: Teacher Professional Development for Integrating Visual Computing into Middle School Lessons}, author={Jayasuriya, Suren and Swisher, Kimberlee and Rego, Joshua D and Chandran, Sreenithy and Mativo, John and Kurz, Terri and Collins, Cerenity E and Robinson, Dawn T and Pidaparti, Ramana}, booktitle={Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence}, volume={38}, number={21}, pages={23101--23109}, year={2024}}
@misc{ImageSTEAM:website, url={http://www.imagesteam.org/}, journal={ImageSTEAM}, author={Jayasuriya, Suren and Swisher, Kimberlee and Rego, Joshua D. and Chandran, Sreenithy and Mativo, John and Kurz, Terri and Collins, Cerenity E. and Robinson, Dawn T. and Pidaparti, Ramana}}
Research
Our ImageSTEAM program has conducted several research studies during the workshop activities. We provide links to several of our research publications below, please contact the corresponding authors for each publication for further inquires.
Terri L Kurz, Suren Jayasuriya, Kimberlee Swisher, Jason Covert, John Mativo, Ramana Pidaparti, Dawn T Robinson, Visual Computing Professional Development and Title I Middle School Teachers’ STEM Computational Thinking, In Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (SITE) (pp. 40-45). Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) 2025 [pdf]
Terri L Kurz, Suren Jayasuriya, Kimberlee Swisher, John Mativo, Ramana Pidaparti, Dawn T Robinson, Using Tinkercad in Middle School Mathematics and Science Classrooms, In Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (SITE) (pp. 454-457). Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) 2025 [pdf]
Terri Kurz, Suren Jayasuriya, Kimberlee Swisher, John Mativo, Ramana Pidaparti, Dawn Robinson, The Impact of Teachable Machine on Middle School Teachers’ Perceptions of Science Lessons after Professional Development, Education Sciences (Special Issue on Digital Learning: Exploring the Use of Educational Technology in Educational Environments), 2024 [pdf]
Terri Kurz, Feyza Kurban, Suren Jayasuriya, Kimberlee Swisher, "Middle School Mathematics Lessons Emphasizing Art and Modeling using Visual Computing" in What preK-12 teachers should know about educational technology in 2023: A research-to-practice anthology, Eds: R. Ferdig, R. Hartshorne, E. Baumgartner, R. Kaplan-Rakowski, C. Mouza, Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2023 [book chapter] [full book]
Kimberlee Swisher, Terri Kurz, Suren Jayasuriya, J. Covert, John Mativo, Ramana Pidaparti, Dawn Robinson, Middle School Teachers' Perceptions of Computer Vision. In Elizabeth Langran (Ed.) Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (pp. 1824-`829). New Orleans, LA, United States: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). [pdf]
Terri Kurz, Suren Jayasuriya, Kimberlee Swisher, John Mativo, Ramana Pidaparti, & Dawn Robinson. Investigating Changes in Teachers’ Perceptions about Artificial Intelligence after Virtual Professional Development. Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 33(4), 225-241, 2023 [pdf]
Terri Kurz, Suren Jayasuriya, Joshua Rego, Kelly Jackson, Kimberlee Swisher, John Mativo, Ramana Pidaparti, Dawn Robinson, Cerenity Collins (2021). Changes in Middle School Teachers’ Thinking after Engaging in Professional Development Emphasizing Computer Vision. In E. Langran & D. Rutledge (Eds.), Proceedings of SITE Interactive Conference (pp. 313-317). Online, United States: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). [pdf]