LIMESTONE – In upholding the tradition of past Maine School of Science and Mathematics Computer Science Seminar students, senior Christopher Lemay of Sanford and junior Ted Armstrong of Camden have coauthored a research paper in Human and Computer Interaction with Dr. David W. Brown entitled “A CMS Case Study: Faculty and Student Factors in a School Disaster Occurrence.”
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A research paper co-authored by Maine School of Science and Mathematics students Christopher Lemay, Ted Armstrong and their instructor, Dr. David Brown, has been accepted for presentation at the Global Learn Asia Pacific 2010 — Global Conference on Learning and Technology held Malaysia. The paper was originally submitted as a roundtable presentation, but was elevated to a full conference presentation by the referees. The subject of the paper discusses the use of course management software utilized to mitigate and recover from a schoolwide disruption, using MSSM as a case study.
Armstrong and Lemay are counted among 38 MSSM student authors with papers accepted to national, international, or global conferences since the inception of Computer Science Seminar in 2003 by Dr. Brown.
The conference acceptance letter stated: “Thank you for your submission to Global Learn Asia Pacific 2010 — Global Conference on Learning and Technology to be held in Penang, Malaysia, May 17-20, 2010.
We are pleased to inform you that the Program Committee of Global Learn Asia Pacific 2010—Global Conference on Learning and Technology, after rigorous peer review, has decided to ACCEPT your submission for presentation.”
Submissions for the conference were peer-reviewed by two or three reviewers, who are members the conference’s international Program Committee of experts in fields specifically matching the conference topics. Papers are subject to a double-blind review, and criteria involved in reviewing paper submissions included the potential value/impact of research or developments, relevance to conference and originality, and style.
According to Dr. David Brown, coauthor and MSSM instructor of computer science, the blind review process is especially important to MSSM paper contributions. The reviewers are unaware that MSSM is a high school and make their determinations on the value of the paper to the conference rather than being distracted by the age of the authors or lack of credibility that might be attributed to a high school.
The paper acceptance rate to this Global, International conference involving scholars and researchers worldwide is 25-39 percent and will be convened on the Malaysian island of Penang.
Additional information about Maine School of Science and Mathematics can be obtained by visiting www.mssm.org.
