Institute for Advancing Computing Education

We design, conduct, promote, support, and disseminate research that k-12 educators find relevant and actionable. Current research projects include:jrotc-cs impact study - we are conducting research into the impact of the csforall jrotc-cs intervention, which is designed to bring computer science and cybersecurity Education to students at high schools across the united states that have jrotc programs. We have presented findings in free, publicly available webinars with over 120 people attending in total. The longer term goal of this project is to improve the intervention so that it can be brought to numerous public high schools in the united states and be more effective in reaching students.building high-quality k-12 computer science Education research across an outcome framework of equitable capacity, access, participation, and experience: this project seeks to address the critical need for high-quality, equity-focused k-12 Computing Education research (cer) across the u.s. to meet the needs of finding promising practices for teaching Computing to all students. The research will analyze existing and ongoing research and develop guidelines for conducting high-quality, equity-focused research. One goal is to identify barriers and gaps in equity-focused research across k-12 Computing Education using the capacity, access, participation, and experience (cape) framework as a lens for analysis. Those results will be used to develop workshops to build the capacity of researchers to include and focus on equity.hindsight 2020 - the purpose of this nsf-funded project is to analyze and to learn from the unique experience of 2020 professional development (pd) programs for computer science (cs) teachers. We contributed to the creation of two significant white papers that are freely available for the public to use when creating virtual and in-person professional development.engineering plus alliance - engineering plus is funded by the national science foundation (nsf) as a part of the nsf includes (inclusion across the nation of communities of learners of underrepresented discoverers in engineering and science) program. Nsf includes is a national initiative that enhances u.s. Leadership with the major focus on diversity, inclusion and broadening participation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (stem). Engineering plus aims to build a system and a network to increase engineering degrees among women and bipoc (black, indigenous, and other people of color) nationally. The vision for the engineering plus alliance is to achieve transformative, systemic and sustainable change that will increase the growth rate in the number of bipoc and women obtaining undergraduate and graduate engineering degrees. By driving the growth of engineering undergraduate degrees by 10% and graduate degrees by 5% across these underrepresented populations, we aim to increase the annual number of degrees awarded these populations to 100,000/30,000 (bs/ms-phd) and establish a future growth rate that can substantially close the aforementioned gaps. Our mission is to implement the strategy posed by our hypothesis, with emphasis on fostering systems changes at key transition points of educational pathways. Csedresearch.org supports the research and evaluation of this project.

To understand how states, districts and schools integrate cs without using cs connections curriculum, csedresearch.org proposed conducting a comprehensive study to identify current practices as well as key levers that are needed to successfully integrate cs into existing subject areas. This includes identifying current cs integration efforts across the country and conduct focus groups with potential decision-makers (e.g., superintendents, administrators, and districtlevel curriculum specialists) and identifying and interviewing subject area experts in the field.

We host over 120 instruments for evaluating self-efficacy, grit, knowledge, and more in Computing education.current projects include:jrotc cyber academy 2021: funded by whatcom community college via a national science foundation grant, the organization evaluated an intense summer course designed to address the national cybersecurity shortage by providing training to 100 high school jrotc cadets. The organization delivered a formal report to the team and the affiliated advisory boards to improve the academy in 2021 to improve its program for scaling it to 500 students in 2022. Research practice partnership between csforall and codecrew: funded by the national science foundation, we are measuring the effectiveness of this rpp that will connect the Tennessee state level actions with school and district level plans and data, focusing explicitly on the pathways designed and experienced by students as they move through k-12 programs. The team will also design teacher pathways with a focus on initial teacher preparation as well as the development of advanced teacher knowledge.script crew tn: impacts of state-wide script on cs Education pathways in tn: as evaluators on this research practice partnership between csforall and codecrew, we are measuring the effectiveness of this rpp that will connect the Tennessee state level actions with school and district level plans and data, focusing explicitly on the pathways designed and experienced by students as they move through k-12 programs. The team will also design teacher pathways with a focus on initial teacher preparation as well as the development of advanced teacher knowledge.

Tu dublin. Evaluation of cs-linc created for teacher professional development in ireland. Engineering plus. Research related to recruiting and retaining bipoc and women in engineering programs across the united states.educate Maine. Research and evaluation services for the non-profit educate Maine. Focuses on historically marginalized groups in Computing, including students in rural communities. Cyber academy 2021. Provided evaluation of cyber academy offered in 2021 to improve the program delivery to high school students/jrotc cadets to learn cybersecurity.bpc-dp shared measures. Provided research services to understand how large-scale delivery of programs through the nsf bpc alliances can be reported through an aggregated means of data collection and reporting.teacher practice briefs. Provided methods for developing teacher practice briefs to share k-12 computer science Education research with teachers.teacher problems of practice. Conducted research to identify teachers' problems of practice when teaching k-12 computer science to their students.landscape of chicago, Illinois and national computer science Education in k-12. Conducted research to identify the landscape of k-12 computer science Education in chicago, Illinois and nationally.longitudinal study and consulting work. Provided evaluation services to amazon future engineer as well as research to form and conduct a longitudinal study across k-12 computer science Education in the u.s.meta-synthesis project. Provided research to integrate various national reports for understanding the national computer science landscape.sagefox consulting. Provided evaluation consulting services for sagefox consulting group related to stem and computer science Education in k-12.