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Eleanor O'Rourke

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Associate Professor of Education and Social Policy

Contact

2233 Tech Drive
Mudd Room 3523
Evanston, IL 60208-3109

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Departments

Computer Science

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Education

Ph.D. Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

M.S. Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

B.S. Computer Science and Spanish, Colby College, Waterville, ME


Research Interests

My research interests are in human computer interaction and educational technology, with a focus on building novel computing systems that optimize student learning for any environment. As part of my PhD research, I have created an incentive structure that promotes the growth mindset in an educational game, developed new paradigms for generating instructional scaffolding, and evaluated a personalized learning system that visualizes student data in real time for classroom teachers. My interventions have been used by over 100,000 students online, adopted by companies, and used in classrooms throughout the Seattle area.

Selected Publications

  • Yang, Stephanie; Baird, Miles; O'Rourke, Eleanor; Brennan, Karen; Schneider, Bertrand, Decoding Debugging Instruction, ACM Transactions on Computing Education (2024).
  • Li, Yinmiao; Chen, Melissa; Hunt, Ayse; Zhang, Haoqi; O'Rourke, Eleanor, Exploring the Interplay of Metacognition, Affect, and Behaviors in an Introductory Computer Science Course for Non-Majors, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc (2024).
  • Chen, Melissa; Li, Yinmiao; O'Rourke, Eleanor, Understanding the Reasoning behind Students' Self-Assessments of Ability in Introductory Computer Science Courses, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc (2024).
  • Gorson, Jamie; Cunningham, Kathryn; Worsley, Marcelo; O'Rourke, Eleanor, Using Electrodermal Activity Measurements to Understand Student Emotions While Programming, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc (2022).
  • Kwik, Harrison; Zhang, Haoqi; O'rourke, Eleanor, How Do Students Seek Help and How Do TAs Respond? Investigating Help-Seeking Strategies in CS1 Office Hours, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc (2022).
  • Cunningham, Kathryn; Qiao, Yike; Feng, Alex; O'Rourke, Eleanor, Bringing "high-level" Down to Earth, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc (2022).
  • Gorson, Jamie; O'Rourke, Eleanor Mary, How do students talk about intelligence? An Investigation of Motivation, Self-efficacy, and Mindsets in Computer Science, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc:21-29 (2019).
  • Shi, Joshua; Shah, Armaan; Hedman, Garrett; O'Rourke, Eleanor Mary, Pyrus, Association for Computing Machinery (2019).