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Publications
Conferences
• MLDG - Machine Learning Dataset Generator (Pilot Findings). HCAI-ep '23, Human Centered AI - Education and Practice, TUDublin December 14th and 15th, 2023

• CSLINC - Development of a National Outreach VLE. In Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2 (SIGCSE 2023)

• INNODOCT/21. International Conference on Innovation, Documentation and Education, 2022

• Supervised Machine Learning for Modelling STEM Career and Education Interest in Irish School Children. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Educational Data Mining. 2022.

• ITiCSE 2022 Preview

• Comparing Programming Self-Esteem ofUpper Secondary School Teachers to CS1 Students. In26th ACM Conferenceon Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE2021), June 26–July 1, 2021, Virtual Event, Germany.ACM

• Developing an Open-Book Online Exam for Final Year Students. In26th ACMConference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2021), June 26–July 1, 2021, Virtual Event, Germany.ACM

• The Elusive Metrics -Are We Telling the Full Story in Educational Data Mining?. In26th ACMConference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2021), June 26-July 1, 2021, Virtual Event, Germany.ACM

• Measuring the enacted K-12 computing curriculum. In Understanding computing education (Vol 1). Proceedings of the Raspberry Pi Foundation Research Seminar series. (2021)

• A Collaborative Online micro:bit K-12 Teacher PD Workshop. In 2020 International Computing Education Research Conference (ICER ’20), August 10–12, 2020, Virtual Event,New Zealand. ACM, New York

• Promoting a Growth Mindset in CS1: Does One Size Fit All? A Pilot Study. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE’20), June 15–19, 2020, Trondheim, Norway.

• Developing an Inclusive K-12 Outreach Model. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE’20), June 15–19, 2020, Trondheim, Norway.

• An International Pilot Study of K-12 Teachers' Computer Science Self-Esteem. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE’20), June 15–19, 2020, Trondheim, Norway.

• Predicting Student Success. Early for a VTOS Student International Conference on Engaging Pedagogy - ICEP, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland, Dec. 12 & 13, 2019

• An International Comparison of K-12 Computer Science Education Intended and Enacted Curricula. Koli Calling '19: Proceedings of the 19th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research, November 2019

• CSinc: An Inclusive K-12 Outreach Model. Koli Calling '19: Proceedings of the 19th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research, November 2019

• An International Study Piloting the MEasuring TeacheR Enacted Computing Curriculum (METRECC) Instrument. ITiCSE '19 Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 2019

• An International Benchmark Study of K-12 Computer Science Education in Schools. ITiCSE '19 Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 2019

• 50 Years of CS1 at SIGCSE: A Review of the Evolution of Introductory Programming Education Research. Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2019), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, February 2019. ACM.

• Second Level Computer Science: The Irish K-12 Journey Begins. Proceedings of the 18th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research (Koli Calling ’18) ACM, Koli, Finland, 2018.

• Programming: predicting student success early in CS1. a re-validation and replication study. ITiCSE 2018 Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 2018

• Insights on Gender Differences in CS1: A Multi-institutional, Multi-variate Study. ITiCSE '17 Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 2017

• Does Scratch improve self-efficacy and performance when learning to program in C#? An empirical study. International Conference on Engaging Pedagogy - ICEP, Dec 2016, At Maynooth University, Maynooth, Co Kildare

• Programming: Further Factors that Influence Success. PPIG - Psychology of Programming Interest Group, St Catharine's College, University of Cambridge, UK, Volume: 27th Annual Workshop 2016

• VEAP: a visualisation engine and analyzer for preSS#. Koli Calling '16 Proceedings of the 16th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research, 2016

• Programming: Factors that Influence Success Revisited and Expanded. International Conference on Engaging Pedagogy - ICEP, College of Computing Technology, Dublin, Ireland, Dec. 3 & 4, 2015

Journals
• Keith Quille & Susan Bergin (2019) CS1: how will they do? How can we help? A decade of research and practice, Computer Science Education, 29:2-3, 254-282, DOI: 10.1080/08993408.2019.1612679

• Using Machine Learning Techniques to Predict Introductory Programming Performance. International Journal of Computer Science and Software Engineering (IJCSSE), Volume 4, Issue 12, December 2015

• PreSS#. A Web-Based Educational System to Predict Programming Performance. International Journal of Computer Science and Software Engineering (IJCSSE), Volume 4, Issue 7, July 2015

PhD Thesis
• Keith Quille (2018) Predicting and Improving Performance on Introductory Programming Courses (CS1), Department of Computer Science, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Books
• Brett A. Becker & Keith Quille (2020) Leaving Certificiate Computer Science (To Appear)

Commissioned Research
• Digital Technology - Using, Understanding and Creating - Technical Report, NCCA, 2022.

News Articles
• Girls 'just as good as boys' at computer science work. The Irish Independent. October 16th, 2017

• Algorithm can predict students’ drop-out rate. Sunday Business Post. November 22nd, 2015