Scaling up CoolThink@JC: Implementation study endline

Abstract

This report presents findings of a study conducted by SRI International (SRI) since the CoolThink scaling phase launched in the 2020–21 school year, offering a rich opportunity to understand what happens when a promising new instructional initiative is enacted by many more schools and teachers. The report describes the implementation and sustainability of CoolThink@JC at three nested levels: the classroom level, the school level, and the system level. It also describes the success factors that have been critical to achieving depth and sustainability of the initiative as it scales. By demonstrating success at scale, the CoolThink partners hoped to create a new paradigm for computational thinking education (CTE) at the upper primary level and to have CoolThink@JC serve as an international model for other jurisdictions as they seek to establish CTE in the primary grades.