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- Designing Effective Online Professional Development for CS TeachersWe just published results from a 2-year study investigating how teachers teaching the AP CS Principles course for the first time used our online PD materials, PD4CS. Our results showed that the teaching and computing background of teachers had a significant impact on the teachers’ need for and use of online PD material. More specifically, novice […]
- Computer Science & Computational Thinking: Research and PracticeWe have a new chapter in the Handbook of Information Technology in Primary and Secondary Education, in which we discuss how computer science efforts to increase the role of computing in schools gives us a unique opportunity to expand computing education research. Specifically, we have laid out directions for future research around computer science teacher development […]
- Computational thinking for preservice teachersThe video below provides an overview of our article in Communications of the ACM on the need for teacher educators and computer scientists to collaborate together to ensure future teachers are prepared to integrate computational thinking in their classrooms.
- Factors that influence learning to programCognitive, Affective, and Dispositional Components of Learning to Program Alex Lishinski Dissertation Given the national importance being placed on computing education, such as the CSforAll initiative to expand computer science (CS) education to K-12 students, there is a need to better understand how students come to learn CS concepts. Prior research has suggested that successfully […]
- Preservice teachers’ intention to teach media & information literacyPreservice teachers’ intention to teach media & information literacy in their future classroom: An application of theory of planned behavior. Sarah Gretter Dissertation Today’s students are exposed to unfiltered media messages on a daily basis. International organizations such as UNESCO, and educational reforms within the United States like the Next Generation Science Standards, are increasingly […]