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Daniel Zingaro | |
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Citizenship | Canadian |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | McMaster University, University of Toronto |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Computer Science, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning |
Institutions | University of Toronto Mississauga |
Website | www |
Daniel Zingaro is an associate professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga.[1] His main areas of research are in evaluating Computer science education and online learning.[2] He has co-authored over 80 articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences; and also authored a textbook, "Invariants: a Generative Approach to Programming.[3]
Born visually impaired, Zingaro completed B.Sc. and M.Sc. in computer science from McMaster University. He then received a Ph.D. from Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto in Computer Science Education.[4] His master's thesis was about formalizing and proving properties of parsers.[5] His doctoral thesis was titled " Evaluating Peer Instruction in First-year University Computer Science Courses".[6] Daniel Zingaro designed accessible computer games and published work in Computers & Education, International Computing Education Research (ICER) conference, Computer Science Education, British Journal of Educational Technology, and Transactions on Computing Education.