Christine Liebe

Faculty 

Professor of Practice
Department of Computer Science, Honors College (Teach@Mines)

About

Christine Liebe has a joint appointment with the Computer Science department and the Honors College (Teach@Mines). She teaches introductory programming, CS pre-service teacher courses, and supervises graduate students conducting CS Education research as well as CS student teachers. She is involved in several interdisciplinary research projects combining education and STEM topics (e.g., additive manufacturing, semiconductor engineering, AI education tools). Her research interests include, the instruction of abstraction, computational thinking, CS assessments, CS interdisciplinary connections, and the correlation between learning human and computer languages. Christine is a licensed K-12 teacher and manages the Discover Explore Create with Technology (DECtech) outreach program which serves ~500  K-12 students through after-school and summer camps. She enjoys hiking with her dog and gardening in her free time. 

Education

• BA in Psychology / Urban Policy, James Madison College, Michigan State University, 1989
• MS in Education, Literacy, Walden University, 2008
• PhD in Education, Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment, Walden University, 2019

ACTIVE / Pending Grants

NSF RET Site: #2206986 Interdisciplinary Additive Manufacturing Research Experiences for Teachers (IAM –RET) will provide high school teachers with the opportunity to learn 3D printing with metals, ceramics, and polymers, research techniques, and research instrumentation that they will apply with their students. $599K. Co-PI.

Atomically Precise Graphene Nanoribbon-based Transistors: Materials, Devices, Circuits, and Systems. NSF FuSE: Future of Semiconductors: # 2235143 multi-institution team-building grant, $50,000 at Colorado School of Mines, Senior Personnel.

Teach@Mines Noyce Scholarship & Stipend Program: NSF – DUE, # 2243454, $1,200,000. Co-PI.

Modern AI-Powered Robotics Research Experience for Teachers (MAR-RET) Site: NSF – RET, $600,000. Co-PI. 

Centering Educators in AI-Assisted Instructional Loops with a Customizable Platform for STEM Virtual Teaching Assistants. NSF – IUSE, $748,680. Co-PI. (pending)

FuSe2 Topic 3: Next Switch: Atomically Precise Graphene Nanoribbon Transistors for High-Performance and Energy-Efficient Computing. $100,000. Co-PI. (pending)

Assessing the Impact of AI in Secondary STEM: Increasing Teacher Preparation and Student Learning with an AI Virtual Teaching Assistant (HiTA+STEM): US Dept. of Education, EIR. $4,000,000. PI. (pending)

Publications

• Christine Liebe, Deborah Kariuki, and Eryn Rachael Kelsey Adkins. 2023. Survey Says: CS Majors are Interested in K-12 Teaching Careers. In Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2 (SIGCSE 2023), March 15–18, 2023, Toronto, ON, Canada. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1 page. https://doi.org/10.1145/3545947.3576346

  Camp, T., Liebe, C. & Thiry, H. (2021, July), CS@Mines: PATH Ambassadors to High Success, A Successful S-STEM Scholarship Program Paper presented at 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference. 10.18260/1-2–36884

  Camp, T., Liebe, C., and Thiry, H. (2021). CS@Mines Successful S-STEM Scholarship Ecosystem for Low-Income and Underrepresented Students. In Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education((SIGCSE ’21), March 13–20, 2021, Virtual Event, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 7 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3408877.3432524

  Waite, J., Liebe, C. (2021). Computer Science Student-Centered Instructional Continuum. In Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education((SIGCSE ’21), March 13–20, 2021, Virtual Event, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, ACM ISBN 978-1-4503-8062-1/21/03. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3408877.3439591

  Camp, T., Liebe, C., and Thiry, H., (2021). Colorado Strategic Approach to Rally Teachers. In Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education((SIGCSE ’21), March 13–20, 2021, Virtual Event, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, ACM ISBN 978-1-4503-8062-1/21/03. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3408877.3439636

  Camp, T., Liebe, C., and Slattery, M. (2020). Applying NCWIT Protocol to Broaden Participation in Computing: A Case Study of CS@Mines. In Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 528–534. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3328778.3366958

  Falkner, N., Vivian, R., Falkner, K., Ajanovski, V., Liebe, C., Morrison, A., & Parker, M. (2020). Meaningful Assessment at Scale: Helping Instructors to Assess Online Learning. In Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE (pp. 512-513). online: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3341525.3394993

  Vivian, R., Quille, K., Mcgill, M., Falkner, K., Sentance, S., Barksdale, S., . . . Maiorana, F. (2020). An International Pilot Study of K-12 Teachers’ Computer Science Self-Esteem. In Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE (pp. 117-123). online: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3341525.3387418

  Liebe, C., Camp, T. (2019). An Examination of Abstraction in K-12 Computer Science Education. In 19th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research (Koli Calling ’19). Koli, Finland. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 9 pages https://doi.org/10.1145/3364510.3364526

  Falkner, K., Sentence, S., Vivian, R., Barksdale, S., Busuttil, L., Cole, E., Liebe, C., Maiorana, F., McGill, M., Quille, K. (2019). An International Comparison of K-12 Computer Science Education Intended and Enacted Curricula. In Proceedings of Koli Calling ’19: 19th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research (Koli Calling ’19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 10 pages https://doi.org/10.1145/1122445.1122456

  Falkner, K., Sentance, S., Vivian, R., Barksdale, S., Busuttil, L., Cole, E., . . . Quille, K. (2019). An international benchmark study of K-12 computer science education in schools. In Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE (pp. 257-258). online: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3304221.3325535

  Liebe, C. L. (2019). Dissertation: An Examination of Abstraction in K-12 Computer Science Education.

  Liebe, C. (2017). Comparison of Abstraction in Computer Coding and in Critical Thinking. In P. Resta & S. Smith (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (pp. 1394-1402). Chesapeake, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).