{"id":1274,"date":"2024-10-12T15:55:28","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T14:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iticse.acm.org\/2025\/?page_id=1274"},"modified":"2025-12-05T15:31:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T15:31:57","slug":"call-for-papers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iticse.acm.org\/2026\/call-for-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This page provides detailed information about paper submissions to the&nbsp;ITiCSE&nbsp;2026&nbsp;conference. It is part of the general&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/iticse.acm.org\/2026\/index.php\/call-for-participation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Call for Participation<\/a>&nbsp;which you should read&nbsp;first, if&nbsp;you have not yet done so.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have questions that neither this page nor the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/iticse.acm.org\/2026\/index.php\/call-for-participation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Call for Participation<\/a>&nbsp;can answer, please&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:iticse2026papers_ppp@easychair.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">contact the program chairs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>ITiCSE 2026 paper tracks<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Papers presented at&nbsp;ITiCSE&nbsp;address aspects of computing education, that is, the education of students who are studying computing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note that an&nbsp;<strong>abstract submission<\/strong>&nbsp;is mandatory for all papers and is due a week before the deadline for full papers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When making a submission, you will be asked to place it in one of three tracks. Please ensure that you\u00a0submit\u00a0your paper to the correct track. Authors are advised to look at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iticse.acm.org\/2026\/index.php\/paper-review-process\/\">review guidelines<\/a>\u00a0for their paper track,\u00a0to\u00a0know what the reviewers will be looking for when reviewing the submission. Papers will be reviewed according to the track to which they were\u00a0submitted.\u00a0No paper\u00a0will be moved between\u00a0tracks.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Computing education research<\/strong>: papers that define research questions, describe the data gathering and the methods used to address the questions, present the results, and discuss the contribution to knowledge about the teaching and learning of computing;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Experience reports and tools<\/strong>: papers that describe computing education experiences, including tools,&nbsp;that have been developed for use in computing education, in sufficient detail for others to see whether their use was beneficial and to be able to adopt them if required; these papers will generally be motivated by the literature, will highlight the novelty of the work, and will be accompanied by a rich description of what worked and what didn\u2019t;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Position papers and proposals<\/strong>: papers articulating original and well-argued positions on aspects of computing education, or proposals for work that is in its early stages; while these papers should be well situated in the literature, they need not report on work that has been completed; however, they must offer something of value to the community \u2013 the intention to carry out some work is not necessarily a worthwhile contribution in its own right.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>All papers should explicitly state their motivating questions, relate to relevant literature, and,&nbsp;where there is an intervention,&nbsp;contain&nbsp;an analysis of the effectiveness of the intervention.&nbsp;Initial submissions must be anonymous.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Submitting the abstract<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Your abstract can be up to 250 words and&nbsp;<strong>must be&nbsp;submitted&nbsp;by the paper abstract deadline (see the sidebar for these&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/iticse.acm.org\/2026\/important-dates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>dates<\/strong><\/a><strong>)<\/strong>. The abstract will be plain text \u2014 not, for example, a PDF. When you log in to&nbsp;submit&nbsp;the abstract, you may paste the abstract text into the form field.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow the instructions on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/iticse.acm.org\/2026\/index.php\/call-for-participation\/#process\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submission process<\/a>&nbsp;at the foot of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/iticse.acm.org\/2026\/index.php\/call-for-participation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Call for Participation<\/a>&nbsp;page.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The abstract helps reviewers bid for papers that they are qualified to review and interested in reviewing. To&nbsp;help with&nbsp;the bidding and reviewing process, please&nbsp;submit&nbsp;an abstract that you believe will best describe the finished paper.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Anonymous version for review<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Please read this section carefully to avoid the unfortunate situation of&nbsp;a desk&nbsp;rejection.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The paper submitted for review&nbsp;<strong>must be a fully anonymous version<\/strong>&nbsp;so as to allow the authors an unbiased review.&nbsp;The anonymous version should have ALL identifying references to the authors removed: this includes authors\u2019 names; authors\u2019 affiliations; any information in the body or the headers of the paper that might identify the authors or their institutions, such as websites, related publications, or specific geographic locations; and acknowledgements, which often include material that might identify the authors. Self-citations need not be removed if they are worded so that the reviewer&nbsp;doesn\u2019t&nbsp;know that the authors are citing themselves. For example, instead of \u201cWe reported on our first experiment in 2018 [13]\u201d, the paper might say \u201cAn early experiment in this area was carried out in 2018 [13]\u201d, or \u201cKatchen and Satie [13] carried out an early experiment in this area in 2018\u201d. If a paper is presenting software that is the work of the authors, the name of the software should be&nbsp;anonymised, so that it will not be found with a web search.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When writing the review version of the paper,<strong>&nbsp;space should be left for the authors\u2019 names, affiliations, and other material that might need to be added, such as the ACM reference format<\/strong>.&nbsp;This can be implemented either&nbsp;using&nbsp;placeholders or simply by ensuring that the paper is sufficiently short of the page limit.&nbsp;Submissions that fully use the page limit, without leaving space for these items, will be&nbsp;<strong>rejected&nbsp;<\/strong>on the grounds of exceeding the page limit.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Papers are expected to stand alone, and not to require the reading of supplementary information.&nbsp;For this reason,&nbsp;<strong>they should not include links to&nbsp;additional&nbsp;material<\/strong>, such as a demonstration of&nbsp;software&nbsp;being introduced.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the paper is accepted for the conference and for publication, authors will be asked to complete a camera-ready copy that will include all&nbsp;appropriate author&nbsp;names, affiliations, citations, acknowledgements, and references, and that may, if&nbsp;appropriate, include links to supplementary information.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are aware that some authors publish their papers prior to submission in places such as&nbsp;arXiv, with full author details.&nbsp;&nbsp;This is&nbsp;permitted&nbsp;according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acm.org\/publications\/policies\/publication-rights-and-licensing-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ACM policy<\/a>. However, this does breach anonymity as such papers can easily be found by a reviewer looking for background on the subject matter.&nbsp;&nbsp;In view of this, we recommend&nbsp;submitting&nbsp;to&nbsp;arXiv&nbsp;or such sites with a different title and abstract than the&nbsp;submitted&nbsp;(review) version to cut down on \u201caccidental\u201d discoveries of papers on&nbsp;arXiv&nbsp;that would compromise anonymity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Ethical status of data collection<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Any submission that makes use of data from human participants (including student surveys, class results, educator interviews, published data sets,&nbsp;etc.) must clearly indicate whether approval has been granted for the use of that data, by what authority (respecting anonymity in the version submitted for review), and what the approval covers. If the work includes any data from human participants that has not been granted approval, that should be clearly explained<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Formatting the paper<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The paper is limited to a maximum of six pages plus one page for references. Note that this is&nbsp;not the same as&nbsp;seven pages: if there is a seventh page, there must be nothing on it but references.&nbsp;Please note that the presence of anything besides references on the&nbsp;seventh&nbsp;page will result in a desk rejection of the paper.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the paper includes figures and tables, the text in them must be readable at 100% magnification and in greyscale. Figures and tables must be readable if the paper is printed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For details&nbsp;regarding&nbsp;the mandatory formatting requirements, see&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/iticse.acm.org\/2026\/index.php\/call-for-participation\/#formatting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Formatting requirements<\/a>&nbsp;on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/iticse.acm.org\/2026\/index.php\/call-for-participation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Call for Participation<\/a>&nbsp;page.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please ensure that the file to be&nbsp;submitted&nbsp;is no more than 10MB in size. When files are this size and more, it is typically because the authors have pasted in high-resolution images and simply scaled them down, rather than reducing the file size before inserting the image.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Important dates<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Important dates can be found in the sidebar on the right or at <a href=\"https:\/\/iticse.acm.org\/2026\/index.php\/important-dates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Important Dates<\/a> page<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Submitting the paper<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow the instructions on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/iticse.acm.org\/2026\/index.php\/call-for-participation\/#process\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submission process<\/a>&nbsp;at the foot of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/iticse.acm.org\/2026\/index.php\/call-for-participation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Call for Participation<\/a>&nbsp;page.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please do not wait until the last minute to&nbsp;submit&nbsp;your paper because that is when everyone else will be connecting to our server!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the paper is fully anonymous and ready for review, convert it to Adobe PDF format. Please check the settings of your&nbsp;converter&nbsp;so it does not inadvertently include your name and affiliation in the properties of the PDF file.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Return to the online submission system using the link on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/iticse.acm.org\/2026\/index.php\/call-for-participation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">call for participation<\/a>&nbsp;page, select the entry for your paper, and click a link in the upper right of the page to add or update the file.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After receiving confirmation, go to the submission site to review your submission for accuracy.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Please note:<\/strong>&nbsp;ITiCSE&nbsp;2026&nbsp;will be a face-to-face conference. Registration, attendance in person, presentation, and discussion are mandatory for at least one&nbsp;author;&nbsp;otherwise, your publication cannot be included in the proceedings. See&nbsp;our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/iticse.acm.org\/2026\/index.php\/iticse-2026-policies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">full policy<\/a>&nbsp;for more information.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Questions<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Questions regarding paper submissions should be addressed to the <a href=\"mailto:iticse2026papers_ppp@easychair.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">program chairs.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This page provides detailed information about paper submissions to the&nbsp;ITiCSE&nbsp;2026&nbsp;conference. It is part of the general&nbsp;Call for Participation&nbsp;which you should read&nbsp;first, if&nbsp;you have not yet done so.&nbsp; If you have questions that neither this page nor the&nbsp;Call for Participation&nbsp;can answer, please&nbsp;contact the program chairs. 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