Book Chapters
Beheshti, E., Lyons, L. , Mallavarapu, A., Thompson, W., Wallingford, B., & Uzzo, S. (2021). Co-designing Learning Dashboards for Informal Educators. To be published in H. Ba, K. McMillan Culp, and M. Honey (Eds.), Design Make Play for Equity, Inclusion, and Agency. Routledge.
Wells, D., Beheshti, E., Kirk, D. (2021). Innovation Institute: Follow the Youth. To be published in H. Ba, K. McMillan Culp, and M. Honey (Eds.), Design Make Play for Equity, Inclusion, and Agency. Routledge.
Journal Articles (peer reviewed)
Beheshti, E. & Lyons, L. (In Preparation). Using Task-Centric Participatory Design to Co-Create a Novel Sociotechnical Educational System. To be submitted to Journal of the Learning Science.
Littenberg-Tobias, J., Beheshti, E., & Staudt, C. (2016). To customize or not to customize? Exploring science teacher customization in an online lesson portal. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 53(3), 349–367.
Weintrop, D., Beheshti, E., Horn, M. S., Orton, K., Jona, K., Trouille, L., & Wilensky, U. (2016). Defining Computational Thinking for Math and Science Classrooms. Journal of Science Education and Technology, 25(1), 127-147.
Price, C. A., Gean, K., Christensen, C. G., Beheshti, E., Pernot, B., Segovia, G., Person, H., Beasley, S., & Ward, P. (2016). Casual Games and Casual Learning about Human Biological Systems. Journal of Science Education and Technology, 25(1), 111-126.
Beheshti, E., Nojeh, A., & Servati, P. (2011) A first-principles study of calcium-decorated, boron-doped graphene for high capacity hydrogen storage. Carbon 49, 5, 1561-1567.
Conference Proceedings (peer reviewed)
Wallingford, B., Beheshti, E., Kirk, D., Vargas, L., Wells, D., & Uzzo, S. (2020, October). "Getting it to Work”: Exploring Student-Driven Problem Solving in Computational Making. To be published in Proceedings of FabLearn 2020. ACM.
Beheshti, E., Lyons, L., Mallavarapu, A., Wallingford, B., & Uzzo, S. (2020, April). Design Considerations for Data-Driven Dashboards: Supporting Facilitation Tasks for Open-Ended Learning. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'20). ACM.
Vakil, S. & Beheshti, E. (2020, June). Theorizing the Politics of Identity in Engineering: Reflections from the University of Tehran, Iran. In Proceedings of ICLS 2020. ACM.
Beheshti, E., Borgos-Rodriguez, K., Piper, AM (2019, June). Supporting Parent-Child Collaborative Learning through Haptic Feedback Displays. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Interaction Design and Children (pp. 58-70). ACM.
Beheshti, E., Kim, D., Ecanow, G., & Horn, M. (2017, June). Close the Circuit 'N Play the Electrons: Learning Electricity with an Augmented Circuit Exhibit. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Interaction Design and Children (pp. 675-678). ACM.
Gorson, J., Patel, N., Beheshti, E., Magerko, B., & Horn, M. (2017, June). TunePad: Computational Thinking Through Sound Composition. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Interaction Design and Children (pp. 484-489). ACM.
Beheshti, E., Kim, D., Ecanow, G., & Horn, M. S. (2017, May). Looking Inside the Wires: Understanding Museum Visitor Learning with an Augmented Circuit Exhibit. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1583-1594). ACM.
Beheshti, E., Obiorah, M., & Horn, M. S. (2015). Let’s Dive into It!: Learning Electricity with Multiple Representations. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (pp. 263-266). ACM.
Beheshti, E., Aljuhani, A., & Horn, M. S. (2014). Electrons to Light Bulbs: Understanding Electricity with a Multi-Level Simulation Environment. In Proceedings of Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2014 IEEE (pp. 1-8). IEEE.
Weintrop, D., Beheshti, E., Horn, M. S., Orton, K., Trouille, L., Jona, K., & Wilensky, U. (2014). Interactive Assessment Tools for Computational Thinking in High School STEM Classrooms. In Proceedings of Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (pp. 22-25). Springer International Publishing.
Beheshti, E., Fitzpatrick, C., Hope, A., Piper, A.M., & Horn, M.S. (2013). Circuit in Pieces: Understanding Electricity from Electrons to Light Bulbs. In CHI'13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 691-696). ACM.
Beheshti, E., Van Devender, A., & Horn, M.S. (2012). Touch, click, navigate: Comparing tabletop and desktop interaction for map navigation tasks. In Proceedings of the 2012 ACM international conference on Interactive tabletops and surfaces (pp. 205-214). ACM.
Presentations at Conferences and Annual Meetings:
Beheshti, E., Lyons, L., Thompson, W., & Uzzo, S. (2020). Human-in-the-Loop: Supporting Facilitators’ Scaffolding of Visitor Engagement and Learning in Science Museums. The Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA 2020), San Francisco, CA.
Beheshti, E. & Horn, M. S. (2018). Looking Inside the Circuit: Understanding Electricity with an Augmented Circuit Exhibit. The Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA 2018), New York City, NY.
Beheshti, E., Villanosa, K, & Horn, M. S. (2018). Understanding Parent-Child Sensemaking around Interactive Museum Exhibits. The Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA 2018), New York City, NY.
Beheshti, E. & Horn, M. S. (2017). Exploring Museum Visitors’ Learning and Interaction with an Augmented Circuit Exhibit. The Association of Science-Technology Centers Annual Conference (ASTC 2017), San Jose, CA.
Beheshti, E., Weintrop, D., Swanson, H., Orton, K., Horn, M. S., Jona, K., Trouille, L., & Wilensky, U. (2017). Computational Thinking in Practice: How STEM Professionals Use CT in Their Work. The Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA 2017), Denver, CO.
Orton, K., Weintrop, D., Beheshti, E., Horn, M. S., Jona, K., & Wilensky, U. (2016). Bringing Computational Thinking into High School Mathematics and Science Classrooms. At the International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS’16).
Beheshti, E., Weintrop, D., Orton, K., Horn, M. S., Jona, K., Trouille, L., & Wilensky, U. (2015). Bringing Expert Computational Practices into High School Science Classrooms. NARST Annual International Conference (NARST 2015), Chicago, IL.
Beheshti, E., Littenberg-Tobias, J., & Staudt, C. (2015). Innovative Technology in Science Inquiry: Preparing Students for STEM. NARST Annual International Conference (NARST 2015), Chicago, IL.
Beheshti, E., Staudt, C., Forman, G., Broadhead, J., & Kimball, N. (2015). Sensing Science: Assessing K-2 Students Readiness for Reasoning with Kinetic Models of Heat using Dynamic Visual Representations. The Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA 2015), Chicago, IL.
Weintrop, D., Orton, K., Horn, M.S., Beheshti, E., Trouille, L., Jona, K., & Wilensky, U. (2015). Outcomes of Bringing Computational Thinking into STEM Classrooms. The Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA 2015), Chicago, IL.
Littenberg-Tobias, J., Staudt, C., & Beheshti, E. (2015). To customize or not to customize? Exploring science teacher customization in an online lesson portal. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the New England Educational Research Association, Portsmouth, NH.
Weintrop, D., Beheshti, E., Horn, M.S., Orton, K., Jona, K., Trouille, L., & Wilensky, U. (2014). Defining Computational Thinking for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. The annual meeting of the American Education Research Association (AERA 2014), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Weintrop, D., Beheshti, E., Horn, M., Jona, K., Kalogera, V., & Wilensky, U. (2013). Casting a Wide Net: Embedded Computational Thinking in STEM. 44th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education SIGCSE’13, Denver, CO.
Trouille, L., Beheshti, E., Horn, M., Jona, K., Kalogera, V., Weintrop, D., & Wilensky, U. (2013). Bringing Computational Thinking into the High School Science and Math Classroom. American Astronomical Society Meeting (AAS 2013), Long Beach, CA.
Beheshti, E., & Horn, M. S. (2012). Work in Progress: Learning flow-of-control with FlipLogic: A game-based approach. In Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2012 (pp. 1-2). IEEE.
Horn, M. S., Weintrop, D., Beheshti, E., & Olson, I. C. (2012). Spinners, Dice, and Pawns: Using Board Games to Prepare for Agent-Based Modeling Activities. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Education Research Association (AERA 2012), Vancouver, Canada.