Publications

Judy Sheard
Faculty of Information Technology
Monash University
Email:   judy.sheard@infotech.monash.edu.au

(Last updated: March 2009)

Book chapters
Journals
Conference papers (refereed)
Reports
Conference papers (refereed on abstract)
Posters
Technical reports

Book Chapters

Dick, M., Sheard, J., & Hasen, Maurie. (2008). Prevention is better than cure: Addressing cheating and plaiarism based on the IT student perspective. In T. S. Roberts (Ed), T. S. Roberts), Student Plagiarism in an Online World: Problems and Solutions (pp. 160-182). Hershey, PA, USA: Information Science Reference.

Ceddia, J., Sheard, J., & Gedge, R. (2004). 'Discovering www user interface problems via user surveys and log file analysis'. In H. Linger, J. Fisher, W. Wojtkowski, W. G. Wojtkowski, J. Zupancic, K. Vigo & J. Arnold (Eds.), Constructing the Infrastructure for the Knowledge Economy: Methods and Tools, Theory and Practice (pp. 569-579). New York, NY, USA: Kluwer Academic.

Journals

Hamer, J., Cutts, Q., Jackova, J., Luxton-Reilly, A., McCartney, R., Purchase, H., Reidsel, C., Saeli, M., Sanders, K. Sheard, J. (2008). Contributing Student Pedagogy.ACM SIGCSE Bulletin inroads, 40(4), 194-212.

Tutty, J., Sheard, J., & Avram, C. (2008). Teaching in the higher education environment: Perceptions of IT academics. Computer Science Education, 18(3).

Gray, K., Thompson, C., Clerehan, R., Sheard, J., & Hamilton, M. (2008). Web 2.0 authorship: issues of referencing and citation for academic integrity. The Internet and Higher Education, 11(2), 112-118.

Ainsworth, B., Sheard, J., & Avram, C. (2008). Monash Museum of Computing History - Part I. ACM SIGCSE Bulletin inroads, 40(2), 31-34.

Ainsworth, B., Sheard, J., & Avram, C. (2008). Monash Museum of Computing History - Part II. ACM SIGCSE Bulletin inroadS, 40(4), 31-34.

Simon, Beth, Fitzgerald, S., McCauley, R., Haller, S., Hamer, J., Hanks, B., Helmick, M., Mostrom, J.E., Sheard, J. & Thomas, L. (2007). Debugging Assistance for Novices: A Video Repository. SIGCSE Bulletin inroads, 39(4), 137-151

Lynch, J., Sheard, J., Carbone, A., & Collins, F. (2005). 'Individual and organisational factors influencing academics' decisions to pursue the scholarship of teaching ICT'. Journal of Information Technology Education, 4, 219-236.

Sheard, J., & Markham, S. (2005). 'Web-based learning environments: Developing a framework for evaluation'. Journal of Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 30(4), 353-368.

Sheard, J., Ceddia, J., Hurst, J. and Tuovinen, J., (2003) Determining Website usage time from interactions: data preparation and analysis, Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 32(1), 101-121.

Sheard, J., Ceddia, J., Hurst, J. and Tuovinen, J., (2003) Inferring student learning behaviour from website interactions: A usage analysis, Journal of Education and Information Technologies, 8 (3), 245-266.

Sheard, J., Ramakrishnan, S. and Miller, J., (2003) Modelling Learner and Educator Interactions in an Electronic Learning Community, Australian Journal of Educational Technology, 19(2), 211-226.

Dick, M., Sheard, J., Bareiss, C., Carter, J., Joyce, D., Harding, T. and Laxer, C. (2003) Addressing Student Cheating: Definitions and Solutions. SIGCSE Bulletin.

Carbone, A. and Sheard, J. (2003). Developing a model of first year student satisfaction in a studio-based teaching environment, Journal of Information Technology Education, 2: 15-28.

Sheard, J., Markham, S. and Dick, M. (2003). Investigating differences in cheating behaviours of undergraduate and graduate students, Journal of Higher Education Research and Development, 22, 91-108.

Sheard, J., Lowe, G., Nicholson, A. and Ceddia, J. (2003). Tackling transition: Exposing secondary school students to tertiary IT teaching and learning, Journal of Information Technology Education, 2: 165-180.

Carter, J., English, J., Ala-Mutka, K., Dick, M., Fone, W., Fuller, U., & Sheard, J. (2003). How shall we assess this? SIGCSE Bulletin: inroads, 35(4), 107-121.

Sheard, J., & Lynch, J. (2003). Accommodating learner diversity in Web-based learning environments: Imperatives for future developments. International Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, 16(4), 243-260.

Refereed Conference Papers

• Koppi, T., Sheard, J., Naghdy, F., Chicharo, J., Edwards, S., Brookes, W. & Wilson, D. (2009). What our ICT graduates need from us: A perspective from the workplace. Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology, 95, 101-110.

• Simon, A. Carbone, de Raadt, M., Lister, R., Hamilton, M., & Sheard, J. (2008). Classifying computing education papers: Process and results. International Computing Education workshop (ICER 2008), Sydney, Australia, 6-7 September, 161-171.
• Clear, T., Whalley, J., Lister, R., Carbone, A., Hu, Minjie, Sheard, J., Simon, B, & Thompson, E. (2008). Reliably classifying novice programmer exam responses using the SOLO taxonomy. In S. Mann & M. Lopez (Eds.), Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Advisory Committee on Computing Qualifications (NACCQ08), Auckland, New Zealand, 4-7 July, 23-30.
• Sheard, J., & Carbone, A. (2008). ICT teaching and learning in a new educational paradigm: Lecturers' perceptions versus students' experiences. Proceedings of the Koli Calling 2007, Seventh Baltic Sea Conference on Computing Education Research, Koli National Park, Finland, 109-119.
• Sheard, J., Carbone, A., Lister, R., Simon, B., Thompson, E., & Whalley, J. (2008). Going SOLO to assess novice programmers. Paper to be presented at the 13th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, Madrid, Spain, 30 June – 2 July, 209-213.
• Sheard, J., Carbone, A., Markham, S., Hurst, A. J., Casey, D., & Avram, C. (2008). Performance and progression of first year ICT students. Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology, 78, 119-127.
• Simon, Sheard, J., Carbone, A., de Raadt, M., Hamilton, M., Lister, R. & Thompson, E. (2008). Eight years of computing education papers at NACCQ. In S. Mann & M. Lopez (Eds.), Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Advisory Committee on Computing Qualifications (NACCQ08), Auckland, New Zealand, 4-7 July, 101-107.

• Carbone, A., de Raadt, M., Kay, J., Lister, R., Litchfield, A., Raban, R., Roe, P., Santamaria, D>, Sheard, J., Shepherd, J., Solomon, A. & Thomas, R. (2007). The Carrick vision and computing education: Four case studies in multi-institutional collaboration, Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology. Proceedings of the Ninth Australasian Computing Education conference (ACE2007), Ballarat, Australia
• Ceddia, J., Sheard, J., & Tibbey, G. (2007). WAT: A tool for classifying learning activities from a log file. Proceedings of the Ninth Australasian Computing Education conference (ACE2007), Ballarat, Australia
• Lister, R., Berglund, A., Box, I., Cope, C., Pears, A., Avram, C., Sheard, J., et al. (2007). Phenomenography in Computing Education Research: A Report on the First

• Keefe, K., Sheard, J., & Dick, M. (2006). 'Adopting XP practices for teaching object oriented programming'. Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology, 52, 91-100.

Ceddia, J., & Sheard, J. (2005). 'Log files for educational applications'. In P. Kommers & G. Richards (Eds.), Proceedings of the ED-Media 2005 - World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications. (pp. 4566-4573). Montreal, Canada, 27 June - 2 July.

Haghighi, P., & Sheard, J. (2005). 'Summative computer programming assessment using both paper and computer'. In C. K. Looi, D. Jonassen & M. Ikeda (Eds.), Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computers in Education. (pp. 67-75). Singapore, 28-30 November.

Redpath, R., & Sheard, J. (2005). 'Domain knowledge to support understanding and treatment of outliners'. In T. Nanayakkara (Ed.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Automation. (pp. 398-403). Colombo, Sri Lanka, 15-18 December.

Sheard, J., Albrecht, D., & Butbul, E. (2005). 'ViSION: Visualization Student Interactions Online'. In A. Treloar & A. Ellis (Eds.), Proceedings of the Eleventh Australasian World Wide Web Conference (AusWeb05). (pp. 48-58). Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, 2-6 July.

Sheard, J. (2004). 'Electronic learning communities: Strategies for establishment and management'. In J. Impagilazzon (Ed.), Proceedings of the 9th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2004). (pp. 37-41). Leeds, UK, 28-30 July.

• Sheard, J., & Carbone, A. (2004). From Informal to Formal: Creating the Australasian Computing Education Community. Proceedings of the Sixth Australasian Computing Education conference (ACE 2004), Dunedin, New Zealand, 291-298.
• Sheard, J. (2004). Electronic Learning Communities: Strategies for Establishment and Management. Proceedings of the Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ACE 2004), Leeds, United Kingdom.
• Sheard, J., & Ceddia, J. (2004). Conceptualisation of the Web and disorientation. Proceedings of the Tenth Australian World Wide Web Conference (AusWeb 04), Gold Coast, Australia.

Ceddia, J., Sheard, J. and Gedge, R., (2003) Discovering WWW user interface problems via user surveys and log file analysis. Twelfth International Conference on Information Systems Development Methods & Tools Theory & Practice, Melbourne, Australia.

Markham, S., Ceddia, J., Sheard, J., Burvill, C., Wier, J., Field, B., Sterling, L. and Stern, L., (2003) Applying agent technology to evaluation tasks in e-learning environments. Exploring Educational Technologies - from Strategy to Implementation, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia..

Sheard, J., Carbone, A. & Dick, M. (2003). Determination of factors which impact on IT students' propensity to cheat. Fifth Australasian Computing Education Conference, Adelaide, Australia, Australian Computer Society.

Sheard, J., Miller, J. and Ramakrishnan, S.(2003). "Web-based discussion forums:The staff perspective." Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2003), Thessaloniki, Greece.

Sheard, J. and Dick, M. (2003). "Influences on cheating practice of IT students: What are the factors? , Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2003), Thessaloniki, Greece.

Sheard, J. and Lynch, J. (2003). "Challenges of Web-based learning environments: Are we student centred enuf?, 2nd International Conference on Web-based Learning, Melbourne, Australia.

Carbone, A. and Sheard, J. (2002). A Studio-based teaching and learning model in IT: what do first year students think? The 7th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2002), Aarhus, Denmark.

Carbone, A. and Sheard, J.  (2002). Developing a model of student learning in a studio-based teaching environment. Informing Science + IT Education Conference 2002, Cork, Ireland.

Ceddia, J. and Sheard, J.  (2002). Evaluation of WIER - A capstone project management tool. InternationaI Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE 2002), Auckland, New Zealand.

Ellis, A., Markham, S., Munro, J.& Sheard, J. (2002). Disseminating innovation  and best practice in ICT education: the ICT-Ed database. 19th Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE 2002), Auckland, New Zealand.

Lynch, J., Collins, F., Sheard, J. .& Carbone, A. (2002). The scholarship of teaching: Risky business in ICT education. Australian Association of Research in Education (AARE 2002).

Sheard, J., Dick, M., Markham, S., Macdonald, I. & Walsh., M. (2002). Cheating and plagiarism: perceptions and practices of first year IT students. The 7th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2002), Aarhus, Denmark.

Sheard, J., Miller, J. & Ramakrishnan, S.. (2002). Student Satisfaction with a Web-based Anonymous Feedback System. The Eighth Australian World Wide Web Conference (AUSWEB 2002), Sunshins Coast, Queensland.

Sheard, J. and S. Markham (2002). Creating an interest in IT: A gender study. InternationaI Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE 2002), Auckland, New Zealand.

• Postema, M., Sheard, J. & Markham, S. (2001) Understanding Web support for education within a diffusion context. Proceedings of ICCE/SchoolNet 2001 conference, Seoul, Korea, November 2001.
• Sheard, J., Lowe, G. & Markham, S. (2001) Education students in IT course options: An impact evaluation. Proceedings of ICCE/SchoolNet 2001 conference, Seoul, Korea, November 2001.
• Dick, M., Sheard, J. & Markham, S. (2001) The reasons for cheating: A survey of postgraduate students. Proceedings of ICCE/SchoolNet 2001 conference, Seoul, Korea, November 2001.
• Hagan, D., Ellis, A., Sheard, J. & Doube, W. (2001) Development and evaluation of first year Java resources: Lessons we have learnt. Proceedings of WebNet 2001, Florida, USA, October 2001.
• Sheard, J., Postema, M. & Markham, S. (2001) Resource rich learning environments: students’ valuations of resources within courses.  Proceedings of ASET HERDSA 2000 conference, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, .
• Dick, M., Sheard, J. & Markham, S. (2001) Is it OK to cheat?  Proceedings of ITiCSE 2001, Canterbury, England, June 2001.
• Sheard, J., Postema, M., Markham, S. & Hurst, J. (2001) Time versus utility: What IT staff say about the educational use of the Web.  Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 2001, Tampere, Finland, June/July 2001.

• Sheard, J.., Carbone, A. & Markham, S. (2000). The process of learning programming: a comparative study of students’ reaction. Proceedings of ICCE/ICCAI 2000, Taipei, Taiwan, November 2000.
• Sheard, J.. & Carbone, A. (2000). CADAL Quiz: providing support for self-managed learning. Proceedings of WebNet 2000, San Antonio, Texas, USA, November 2000.
• Sheard, J., Postema, M. & Markham, S. (2000). Paper-based and Web-based resources: what do students value?  Proceedings of AusWeb2K, Cairns, June 2000.
• Sheard, J., Postema, M. & Markham, S. (2000) Resource rich learning environments: students’ valuations of resources within courses.  Paper presented at ASET HERDSA 2000 conference, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, July 2000.
• Mitchell, M., Sheard, J., & Markham, S. (2000). Student motivation and positive impressions of computing subjects  Proceedings of ACE2000, Melbourne, Australia, December 2000.

1999

• Sheard, J.. & Hagan, D.L. (1999).  A Special Learning Environment for Repeat Students, Proceedings of ITiCSE '99, Cracow, Poland, June 1999.
• Ellis, A., Hagan, D.L., Sheard, J.., et al. (1999). A Collaborative Strategy for Developing Shared Java Teaching Resources, Proceedings of ITiCSE '99, Cracow, Poland, June 1999.

• Sheard, J. & Hagan, D.L. (1998). Our Failing Students: a Study of a Repeat Group, Proceedings of ITiCSE '98, Dublin, Ireland, August 1998.
• Hagan, D.L. & Sheard, J.. (1998). The Value of Discussion Classes for Teaching Introductory Programming, Proceedings of ITiCSE '98, Dublin, Ireland, August 1998.
• Carbone, A., Hagan, D. L. & Sheard, J. (1998). Consolidate, preserve, and build: a tutor training program for a new school. Proceedings of the 3rd Australasian Conference on Computer Science Education, Brisbane, Queensland, July 1998.

• Sheard, J. & Hagan, D. L. (1997). Experiences with teaching object-oriented concepts to introductory programming students using C++. Proceedings of TOOLS Asia '97, Beijing, China, September 1997.
• Sheard, J., Hagan, D. L. & Macdonald, I. (1997).  Designing and developing a new learning environment for teaching introductory programming, Proceedings of SCI '97 / ASIS '97, Caracas, Venezuela, July 1997.
• Hagan, D. L., Sheard, J. & Macdonald, I. (1997).  Evaluating and monitoring a redesigned first year programming course, SIGCSE Bulletin, 29(3), September 1997, 37-39.

Reports

Hurst, J., Carbone, A., Eley, M., Ellis, A., Hagan, D., Markham, S., Sheard, J. and Tuovinen, J., Teaching ICT. Higher Education Division, Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs, 2001.

Hill, R., Malone, P., Markham, S., Sharma, R., Sheard, J. and Young, G., Researching the size and scope of on-line usage in the vocational education and training sector. National Centre for Vocational Education Research, 2003.

Koppi, T., Naghdy, F., Chicharo, J., Sheard, J., Edwards, S. & Wilson, D. (2008). The crisis in ICT education: An academic perspective. In R. Atkinson & C. McBeath (Eds.), Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 30 November – 3 December, 505-508.

Sheard, J. & Hagan, D.L. (1999). Developing a Teaching Community of Introductory Programming Tutors, Paper presented at HERDSA '99, Melbourne, July 1999.

Posters

Sheard, J. & Markham, S. (2002). Creating an interest in IT: A gender study. Proceedings of Seventh Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2002), Denmark, June/July 2002.

Sheard, J., & Tuovinen, J. et al. (2001) The ICT-ED Project: Mini-conferences as a data source.  Poster presented at ED-MEDIA 2001, Tampere, Finland, June/July 2001.

Sheard, J., Postema, M. & Markham, S. (2000) Subject differences in subject attitudes to paper-based and Web-based resources", Poster presented at ITiCSE 2000, Helsinki, Finland, July 2000.

Technical reports

Sheard, J., Ceddia, J., Tucker, S., Markham, S, & Cambrell, A. Evaluation of WIER (Part 1), CERG technical report 2002/01, February 2002.

Sheard, J., Miller, J., Ramakrishnan, S. & Hurst, J., "Anonymous Feedback (Staff Survey) 2002, CERG technical report 2002/02, March 2002.

Sheard, J., Ceddia, J., Tucker, S., Markham, S, & Cambrell, A. Evaluation of WIER (Part 2), CERG technical report 2002/03, April 2002.

• Sheard, J., Dick, M. & Markham, S., ”Questionable Work Practices - The Views of Postgraduate Students in IT Courses - Part 1”, CERG technical report 2001/01, January 2001.
• Sheard, J., Dick, M. & Markham, S., ”Questionable Work Practices - The Views of Undergraduate Students in IT Courses - Part 1”, CERG technical report 2001/02, February 2001.
• Sheard, J., Dick, M. & Markham, S., ”Questionable Work Practices - The Views of Postgraduate Students in IT Courses - Part 2”, CERG technical report 2001/03, March 2001.
• Sheard, J., Dick, M. & Markham, S., ”Questionable Work Practices -  The Views of Undergraduate Students in IT Courses - Part 2”, CERG technical report 2001/04, March 2001.
• Sheard, J., Markham, S. & Lowe, G., ”Evaluation of the Unisys Monash IT Summer School”, CERG technical report 2000/05, 2001/06 April 2001.
• Sheard, J., Dick, M. & Markham, S., ”Questionable Work Practices - Comparison of the Undergraduate and Postgraduate Student View”, CERG technical report 2001/07, August 2001.
• Sheard, J., Dick, M. & Markham, S., ”Questionable Work Practices - Comparison of Views of First Year Undergraduate Student Views”, CERG technical report 2001/08, September 2001.
• Sheard, J., Dick, M. & Markham, S., ”Questionable Work Practices- The Views of Undergraduate Marketing Students - Part 2”, CERG technical report 2001/08, October 2001.
• Sheard, J., Miller, J., Ramakrishnan, S. & Hurst, J., "Anonymous Feedback (Student Survey) 2001, CERG technical report 2001/10, November 2001.

• Sheard, J., Postema, M. & Markham, S., ”Survey of Teaching Resources - Staff responses”, CERG technical report 2000/01, January 2000
• Sheard, J., Postema, M. & Markham, S., ”Survey of Teaching Resources - Student responses”, CERG technical report 2000/02, February 2000
• Sheard, J., Carbone, A. & Markham, S., ”Student Reactions to Learning Visual Basic and COBOL”, CERG technical report 2000/03, March 2000
• Sheard, J., Markham, S. & Lowe, G., ”Evaluation of the Unisys Monash IT Summer School”, CERG technical report 2000/04, July 2000
• Ellis, A., Hagan, D.L., Sheard, J., Doube, W., Report of evaluation of Java resources for first year programming, Presented at ASCILITE CUTSD project workshop, December 2000.

• Sheard, J. & Markham, S. "Survey of SFT1101 Students - Semester 1 1998", CERG technical report 99/001