This report offers a rich, cross-sector look at what STEM employers learned and conveys how they can improve their virtual internship programs in the future.
Building Teacher Capacity in K–12 Computer Science by Promoting Formative Assessment Literacy
This white paper highlights some of the challenges faced by current CS teachers and presents a call to action for states and school districts to support CS teacher capacity building through standards-aligned, sustained, scalable, and reusable teacher PD…
Practice Guide: Applying a Principled Approach to Develop and Use K–12 Computer Science Formative Assessments
In this practice guide, we show how to apply the five-step process outlined in the corresponding white paper to systematically develop or select formative assessment tasks and use them to inform instruction.
Pursuing the Vision of CS for All: Views from the Front Lines
Headlines in the popular press like “How Silicon Valley Pushed Coding into American Classrooms” and “Who Benefits from the Push to Teach Every Kid to Code? Tech Companies for One” characterize computer science education initiatives as strictly top-down private sector efforts to get public schools to prepare their future workforce.
Studying Implementation of Secondary Introductory Computer Science: Preliminary Results (Abstract Only)
Education researchers have extensively studied how secondary teachers adopt and adapt new curriculum and new teaching practices, especially in science and mathematics.