Quintin Cutts

Room S141
School of Computing Science
University of Glasgow
Sir Alwyn Williams Building
18, Lilybank Gardens, G12 8RZ

+44 141 330 5619
Quintin.Cutts at glasgow.ac.uk

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Teaching

Research, Scholarship and Outreach

Recent Publications

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Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.

Research, Scholarship and Outreach

Lots more to come!!

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Computing Science Inside... - taking Computing Science out to the schools

I have a major grant in theEPSRC's Partnerships for Public Engagement (PPE) programme, taking Computing Science concepts out to school pupils. The project is called Computing Science Inside... - the inside refers our aim of showing the pupils the Computing Science inside the everyday technology they are now surrounded by - such as their mobile phones, the web, gaming machines and so on. Our main website is at http://csi.dcs.gla.ac.uk.

Selected Publications

Cutts, Q., Esper, S., Fecho, M., Foster, S. & Simon, B. (2012) “The Abstraction Transition Taxonomy: Developing Desired Learning Outcomes through the Lens of Situated Cognition” In Proceedings of ICER 12, the 8th International Computing Education Research Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, Sept. 2012.

Esper, S., Simon, B. and Cutts, Q. (2012) “Exploratory Homeworks: An Active Learning Tool for Textbook Reading” In Proceedings of ICER’12, the 8th International Computing Education Research Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, Sept. 2012

Simon, B. and Cutts, Q. (2012) “Peer Instruction: A Teaching Method to Foster Deep Understanding” Comm. ACM 55(2), pp 27-29.

Simon, B. and Cutts, Q. (2012) “How to Implement a Peer Instruction-designed CS Principles Course” ACM Inroads 3(2), pp 72-74

Cutts, Q., Esper, S. and Simon, B. (2011) “Computing as the 4th “R”: a General Education Approach to Computing Education” In Proceedings of ICER’11, the 7th International Computing Education Research Conference, Rhode Island, USA, pp 133-138.

Porter, L., Bailey-Lee, C., Simon, B., Zingaro, D. Cutts, Q. (2011) "Experience Report: A Multi-Classroom Report on the Value of Peer Instruction" Proceedings of ITiCSE'11, 16th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, June 2011, Darmstadt, Germany. pp 138-142.

Bell, T., Curzon, P., Cutts, Q., Dagiene, V. and Haberman, B. (2011) "Overcoming Obstacles to CS Education by Using Non-Programming Outreach Programmes" In Proceedings of ISSEP'11, 5th International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution and Perspectives, Bratislava, Slovakia, October 2011

Bowskill, N., Lally, V., Brindley, S., Cutts, Q., Draper, S. (2011) “Shared Thinking as Interactionist Theory and Pedagogy for Group Learning”, SASP 2011 Conference, Manly, Australia, 16-18th April, 2011

Cutts, Q., Cutts, E., Draper, S., O'Donnell, P. and Saffrey, P., "Manipulating mindset to positively influence introductory programming performance", Proceedings of the 41st ACM SIGCSE symposium, (2010), pp 431-435.

Simon, B., Kohanfars, M., Lee, J., Tamayo, K. and Cutts, Q., "Peer Instruction in Introductory Computing", Proceedings of the 41st ACM SIGCSE symposium, (2010), pp 341-345

Learning and Teaching

I'll be running these courses again in session 2012-13.

Level 1: CS-1P. An introduction to programming and software engineering using Python. Moodle course page.
Level 4: Computing Science in the Classroom. Final year students spend time in local schools acting as ambassadors for Computing Science and learning teaching and communication skills. Moodle course page.
MSc IT: Advanced Programming. Moodle course page

I am currently the Senior Adviser of Studies for the School of Computing Science.

I am External Examiner for undergraduate programmes at the University of Dundee and Heriot Watt University.

Prizes and awards

2010 HEA-ICS National Award for Teaching of Information & Computing Science in Higher Education
2006 University of Glasgow Teaching Excellence Award, Inaugural year
2006 Royal Society of Edinburgh Inspiration Award

Past courses

Unix, C, C++, Programming Language Design and Implementation, Compilers, Databases, Professional Skills and Issues, Persistent Programming Languages.

Past responsibilities

Associate Dean (Learning and Teaching), Faculty of Information and Mathematical Sciences 2006-10.

Convenor of Computing Science Learning and Teaching Committee 2000-2003

Exchange and International Students Coordinator 2000-2006

Convenor of Level 1 and Level 3 programmes at various times

Membership at various times of University committees: Senate, Learning & Teaching, Education Policy and Strategy, Academic Standards, Senate Appeals.

External Assessor for Subject Review, London Southbank University, 2006

STEM-ED Scottish advisory group on STEM education in Scottish schools, 2005-9

Quintin Cutts 16/10/2012