Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering
Associate Professor, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Education Innovation Fellow, Grainger College of Engineering
Recent Publications
Chen, B., West, M., & Zilles, C. (2022). Peer-grading "explain in Plain English" Questions: A Bayesian Calibration Method for Categorical Answers. In SIGCSE 2022 - Proceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (pp. 133-139). (SIGCSE 2022 - Proceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education; Vol. 1). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3478431.3499409
Fowler, M., Smith, D. H., Emeka, C., West, M., & Zilles, C. (2022). Are We Fair? Quantifying Score Impacts of Computer Science Exams with Randomized Question Pools. In SIGCSE 2022 - Proceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (pp. 647-653). (SIGCSE 2022 - Proceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education; Vol. 1). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3478431.3499388
Poulsen, S., Viswanathan, M., Herman, G. L., & West, M. (2022). Evaluating proof blocks problems as exam questions. ACM Inroads, 13(1), 41-51. https://doi.org/10.1145/3514213
Tomkin, J. H., & West, M. (2022). STEM courses are harder: evaluating inter-course grading disparities with a calibrated GPA model. International Journal of STEM Education, 9(1), [27]. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40594-022-00343-1
Emeka, C., Bretl, T., Herman, G. L., West, M., & Zilles, C. (2021). Students' Perceptions and Behavior Related to Second-Chance Testing. In Proceedings - 2021 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE 2021 (Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE; Vol. 2021-October). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE49875.2021.9637173