Publications and Presentations
Books
DK Publishing
Editor 2018 – 2019
Edited the contents of "Beginner's Step-by-Step Coding Course" (ISBN 9780241358733).
DK Publishing
US Consultant 2017-2018
Edited the contents for suitability to the US education market
"Help Your Kid with Computer Science" (ISBN 9781465473608)
Journal Articles and Publications
Popyack, J., Valesey, B., Pirmann, T. & Moix, D. (2026). Barriers and Mitigations: Recruiting and Training CS Teachers in a Large Urban School District. SIGCSE TS 2026: Proceedings of the 57th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V.2 doi.acm.org?doi=3770761.3777325
Pennsylvania Expanding Computing Education Pathways Alliance Working Group (2024). K-12 Computer Science Education in Pennsylvania
Kussmaul, C., & Pirmann, T. (2021). Monitoring Student Team Progress and Responses in Guided Inquiry Learning with Technology. 2021 International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT). doi:10.1109/icalt52272.2021.00046
Kussmaul, C., & Pirmann, T. (2021) Guided Inquiry Learning with Technology: Investigations to Support Social Constructivism. CSEDU April 2021 PDF
Pirmann, T. (2018) Career Motivations of Computer Science Teachers. Dissertation
Griffin, J., Pirmann, T., Gray, B. (2016) Two teachers, two perspectives on CS Principles. SIGCSE '16 Proceedings of the 47th ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education, 461-466
Kussmaul, C., Hu, H., Pirmann, T. (2016) Special Session: Helping students to develop communication, teamwork, and other process skills with POGIL. SIGCSE '16 Proceedings of the 47th ACM Technical Symposium on
Computing Science Education, 683-684
Mayfield, C., Garcia, S., Hu, H., Kussmaul, C., Pirmann, T. (2016) POGIL in computer science for beginners and experts. SIGCSE '16 Proceedings of the 47th ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education, 703-704
Yongpradit, P., Seehorn, D., Pirmann, T., Lee, I., Twarek, B. (2016) Defining concepts, practices, and standards for K-12 CS. SIGCSE '16 Proceedings of the 47th ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education, 704-705
Pirmann, T. (2015, May) CSTA - state of K-12 computer science education in the US. Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, 30(5) 90-90
Hu, H., Lang, M., Kussmaul, C., Mayfield, C., Pirmann, T. (2014) Guided inquiry learning in context: perspectives on POGIL in CS. SIGCSE '14 Proceedings of the 45th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 467-468
Seehorn, D., Stephenson, C., Pirmann, T.R., Powers, K. (2013) CSTA CS K-12 instructional standards and CS curriculum. SIGCSE '13 Proceedings of the 44th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. 746-746
Trees, F., Reed, D., Pirmann, T. (2013) CSTA chapters: supporting your local computer science educators. SIGCSE '13 Proceeding of the 44th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. 752-752
Griffin, J., Dougherty, J.P., Pirmann, T.R., Powell, R. (2010, January) Certification and standards for computing education in Pennsylvania. Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, 25(3) 9-9
Presentations
Kussmaul, C., Pirmann, T.R., Moix, D.W. (2025) GILT - Instructor Dashboards and Student Feedback (Roundtable) NCAPP. June 2025
Pirmann, T.R., Moix, D.W. (2025) POGIL Facilitation in Large Lecture Sections (Birds of a Feather) NCAPP. June 2025
Pirmann, T.R. (2020) How to be intentional in teaching teamwork and other professional skills (Virtual Talk) Drexel University CASTLE. November 10, 2020
Mayfield, C. & Pirmann, T.R. (2020) Facilitators toolbox for encouraging interactive, collaborative classrooms (Session) CSTA 2020 Annual Conference. July 2020
Pirmann, T.R. (2019) What is a CS Teacher? (Roundtable) CS4Philly Education Summit. December 11, 2019
Bilger, L., Newburg, F., Payton, J., Pirmann, T.R., Popyack, J. (2019) Research and Policy Panel. CS4Philly Education Summit. December 11, 2019
Pirmann, T.R. (2016) POGIL within a Mastery Learning Classroom (Poster). POGIL National Meeting June 2016
Gray, B., Pirmann, T.R. (2015) Introducing the POGIL-CSP project. CSTA 2015 Annual Conference. July 2015
Hu, H., Pirmann. T.R. (2014) Developing CS materials for the guided inquiry classroom. CSTA 2014 Annual Conference. July 2014
Pirmann, T.R. (2014) Cell phone data in STEM. CSTA 2014 Annual Conference. July 2014
Pirmann, T.R., Seehorn, D. (2014) CS curriculum based on the CSTA K-12 Standards. CSTA 2014 Annual Conference. July 2014
Kussmaul, C., Pirmann. T.R. (2013) Guiding students to concept mastery with POGIL. CSTA 2013 Annual Conference. July 2013
Lang, K., Seehorn, D., Pirmann, T.R., Lagos, M. (2013) CSTA K-12 CS standards in Action in your school. CSTA 2013 Annual Conference. July 2013
Pirmann, T.R. (2012) Big Data Unit (Workshop). CSTA 2012 Annual Conference. July 2012
Kussmaul, C., Pirmann, T.R. (2012) Guided inquiry learning for computer science. CSTA 2012 Annual Conference. July 2012
