We meet every week to talk about recent and foundational publications in Computer Science education. All are welcome, including latecomers. Reading the paper ahead of time is suggested, but not required.
See CSEdResearch.org for more upcoming papers.
Week 180: Apr 19, 2022 Report of the Spanish Computing Scientific Society on Computing Education in Pre-University Stages and optionally Is computer science really disappearing from Baccalaureate? (Report from Spain, In Spanish)
Week 179: Apr 12, 2022 *Unplugged Computing and Semantic Waves: Analysing Crazy Characters Participants: Chloe, Fara, Jerynn, Debbie, Melinda, Dianne, Em
Week 178: Apr 5, 2022 How a computer scientist fights bias in algorithms (NPR interview + comic) Participants: Angela, Debbie, Ian, Sarah, Em
Week 177: Mar 29, 2022 Applying the CAPE framework to measure equity and inform policy in computer science education PDF Participants: Angela, Debbie, Bekir, Em
Week 176: Mar 22, 2022 A Tale of Two CTs (and a Revised Timeline for Computational Thinking) Participants: Debbie, Gregg, Angela, Sarah, Rebecca, Em
Week 175: Mar 15, 2022 *Cuturally Relevant CS Pedagogy- Theory and Practice Participants: Sharisa, Christine, Angela, Debbie, Bryan, Amy, Ian, Em (Friday: Monica, Sarah, Bekir, Em)
Week 174: Mar 8, 2022 Coding in Primary Grades Boosts Children's Executive Functions Participants: Gregg, Jerynn, Sarah, Beth, Patrick, Em
Week 173: Mar 1, 2022 Conceptualizing AI literacy: An exploratory review Participants: Jerynn, Debbie, Mark L, Amy, Patrick, Em
Week 172: Feb 22, 2022 Defining and Designing Computer Science Education in a K12 Public School District Participants: Jerynn, Angela, Katie, Beth, Bekir, Amy, Debbie, Patrick, Ian, Em
Week 171: Feb 15, 2022 *Teaching computer programming with PRIMM: a sociocultural perspective Participants: Angela, Amy, Beth, Ian, Patrick, Bekir, Em
Week 170: Feb 8, 2022 Counter-hegemonic Computing: Toward Computer Science Education for Value Generation and Emancipation Participants: Debbie, Jessica, Bekir, Patrick, Em
Week 169: Feb 1, 2022 Finding time for computer science in the elementary school day: a quasi- experimental study of a transdisciplinary problem-based learning approach Participants: Art, Rebecca, Amy, Debbie, Beth, Patrick, Ian, Bekir, Em
Week 168: Jan 25, 2022 *Concepts before coding: non-programming interactives to advance learning of introductory programming concepts in middle school Participants: Katie, Ian, Sarah, Christine, Debbie, Beth, Bekir, Amy, Em
Week 167: Jan 18, 2022 To What Extent Are Students With Disabilities Included in K-12 Computer Science Education? Participants: Debbie, Rebecca, Sarah, Mark L, Amy, Bekir, Ian, Em
Week 166: Jan 11, 2022 Project MoveSMART: Integrating Physical Activity and Computer Science Learning in Elementary School Classrooms Participants: Debbie, Rebecca, Sarah, Em
Week 165: Jan 4, 2022 2021 State of Computer Science Education: Accelerating Action Through Advocacy Participants: Rebecca, Katie, Sarah, Ian, Em
Week 164: Dec 21, 2021 Machine learning for human learners: opportunities, issues, tensions and threats Participants: Katie, Sarah, Jessia, Ian, Patrick, Em
Week 163: Dec 14, 2021 Code Comprehension Strategies (Blog post by Phil Bagge) Participants: Sarah, Beth, Ian, Em
Week 162: Dec 7, 2021 Preparing School Leaders to Advance Equity in Computer Science Education Participants: Katie, Sarah, Bekir, Bryan, Ian, Patrick, Em
Week 161: Nov 30, 2021 Physical Computing for Children: Shifting the Pendulum Back to Papertian Ideals Participants: Katie, Greg, Rudy, Suba, Bryan, Patrick, Ian, Em
Week 160: Nov 23, 2021 The Future of Problem Solving with Data and Intelligence: Increasing Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Education Across the US (This is long. Focus on pp1-18) Participants: Jessica, Bekir, Bryan, Sarah, Patrick, Em
Week 159: Nov 16, 2021 We Tell These Stories to Survive: Towards Abolition in Computer Science Education Participants: Minh, Sarah, Patrick, Em
Week 158: Nov 9, 2021 The Big Book of Computing Pedagogy (Chapter: "Challenge Misconceptions" pp102-113) Participants: Beth, Sarah, Patrick, Ian, Em
Week 157: Nov 2, 2021 Rethinking Perkins to Expand Access to K-12 Computer Science Participants: Beth, Ian, Bryan, Patrick, Sarah
Week 156: Oct 26, 2021 Computer Science for Multilingual Students Richard, Rudy, Bryan, Sarah, Beth, Ian, Em
Week 155: Oct 19, 2021 Teaching Explicit Programming Strategies to Adolescents Participants: Aaron, Sarah, Neil, Beth, Patrick, Em
Week 154: Oct 12, 2021 K-12 Cybersecurity Learning Standards Steven, Sarah, Beth, Patrick, Em
Week 153: Oct 5, 2021 Twenty Things to do with a Computer (Papert & Solomon 1971) Participants: Catherine, Aaron, Sarah, Bryan, Ian, Patrick, Em
Week 152: Sept 28, 2021 California Computer Science Education Policy: Contributing Factors to Success and Opportunities for Further Progress Participants: Beth, Bryan, Ian, Patrick, Em
Week 151: Sept 21, 2021 Implementation and Assessment of Teamwork in Computer Science Education Participants: Ashish, Aleata, Sarah, Bryan, Neil, Ian, Patrick, Em
Week 150: Sept 14, 2021 Measuring actual learning versus feeling of learning in response to being actively engaged in the classroom Participants: Sarah, Ashish, Bryan, Beth, Patrick, Ian, Em
Week 149: Sept 7, 2021 Hindsight 2020: Guidebook for Virtual Professional Development for Computer Science Teachers Participants: Sarah, Beth, Ian, Em
Week 148: Aug 31: 2021 A New Model for Weaving Responsible Computing Into Courses Across the CS Curriculum Participants: Ian, Patrick, Em
Week 147: Aug 24, 2021 Picture a Scientist (90-min documentary) on PBS or Netflix Participants: Renaldo, Ann, Mark, Ira, Patrick, Em
Week 146: Aug 17, 2021 MAADS: Mixed-Methods Approach for the Analysis of Debugging Sequences of Beginner Programmers Participants: Renaldo, Mark, Patrick, Ian, Em
Week 145: Aug 10, 2021 The Agile Educator Guide: An Agile Framework for Modern Education Participants: Christine, Zoe, Suba, Neil, Beth, Patrick, Ian, Em
Week 144: Aug 3, 2021 The Future of Programming Participants: Jose, Ashish, Ian, Em
Week 143: Jul 27, 2021 CS Policy to Practice: Understanding Emerging Approaches to State-Level Computer Science Education Policy Design in the United States Participants: Alexis, Ian, Patrick, Em
Week 142: Jul 20, 2021 Teaching how to teach computational thinking Participants: Bryan, Ian, Patrick, Kate, Em
Week 141: Jul 13, 2021 Empowering K-12 Students with Disabilites to Learn Computational Thinking and Computer Programming Participants: Renelle, Zoe, Mark, Ian, Patrick, Em
Week 140: Jul 6, 2021 Physical Java Memory Models (presentation notes by Colleen Lewis) and 5-minute Video Participants: Colleen, Greg, Fan, Jose, Beth, Kate, Patrick, Ian, Em
Week 139: Jun 29, 2021 The Effect of Reading Code Aloud on Comprehension: An Empirical Study with School Students Participants: Steven, Beth, Bryan, Ian, Kate, Patrick, Em
Week 138: Jun 22, 2021 Many Small Programs in CS1: Usage Analysis from Multiple Universities Participants: Ann, Kate, Ian, Patrick, Em
Week 137: Jun 15, 2021 The CS Teacher Landscape: Results from a Nationwide Teacher Survey Participants: Ian, Ashish, Ira, Patrick, Kate, Em
Week 136: Jun 8, 2021 Block Model: an educational model of program comprehension as a tool for a scholarly approach to teaching Participants: Ian, Ann, Amy, Kate, Patrick, Em
Week 135: Jun 1, 2021 How Early Does the CS Gender Gap Emerge? A Study of Collaborative Problem Solving in 5th Grade Computer Science or CSK8 Podcast Participants: Amy, Kate, Patrick, Em
Week 134: May 25, 2021 Teacher implementation profiles for integrating computational thinking into elementary mathematics and science instruction Participants: Amy, Kate, Bekir, Ira, Patrick, Em
Week 133: May 18, 2021 Developing an Interdisciplinary Data Science Program Participants: Patrick, Em
Week 132: May 11, 2021 Supporting Diverse Learners in K-8 Computational Thinking with TIPP&SEE Participants: Christine, Kate, Beth, Bekir, Ira, Patrick, Em
Week 131: May 4, 2021 Exploring Novice Programmers' Hint Requests in an Intelligent Block-Based Coding Environment Participants: Mark, Kate, Patrick, Em
Week 130: Apr 27, 2021 Evolving a K-12 Curriculum for Integrating Computer Science into Mathematics Participants: Kathi, Fan, Justin, Patrick, Em
Week 129: Apr 20, 2021 Teaching Computer Science through Problems, not Solutions Participants: Amy, Kate, Ashish, Patrick, Ira, Em
Week 128: Apr 13, 2021 The Effects of Providing Starter Projects in Open-Ended Scratch Activities Participants: Miranda, Kate, Ira, Patrick, Ashish, Em
Week 127: Apr 6, 2021 Cultivating Interest and Competencies in Computing: Authentic Experiences and Design Factors Participants: Kate, Jose, Ashish, Jessica, Mariana, Bryan, Ian, Ira, Patrick, Em
Week 126: Mar 30, 2021 Development and Preliminary Validation of the Assessment of Computing for Elementary Students (ACES) Participants: Dana, Miranda, Yvonne, Patrick, Ian, Beth, Bryan, Em
Week 125: Mar 23, 2021 Critical Ancestral Computing: A Culturally Relevant Computer Science Education Participants: Mariana, Ira, Bryan, Patrick, Ian, Em
Week 124: Mar 16, 2021 Planning K-8 Computer Science through the UDL Framework Participants: Art, Patrick, Ashish, Jessica, Ira, Ian, Em
Week 123: Mar 9, 2021 "You don't do your hobby as a job": Stereotypes of Computational Labor and their Implications for CS Education Participants: Sulayman, Kate, Natasha, Jose, Ashish, Patrick, Sara, Jessica, Bryan, Ian, Em
Week 122: Mar 2, 2021 Improving Middle School Students' Computer Science Knowledge and Engagement Through Creative Online Programming Projects Participants: Jose, Patrick, Mark L, Bekir, Jessica, Suba, Ian, Bryan, Ira, Em
Week 121: Feb 23, 2021 Comprehension of computer code relies primarily on domain-general executive brain regions Note: this article is incredibly long. Read the pop-sci summary instead: To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language Participants: Ashish, Ira, Bryan, Ian, Em
Week 120: Feb 16, 2021 Design to Disrupt: Making Space for Every Student in CS Participants: Art, Ashish, Jessica, Ira, Bryan, Ian, Em
Week 119: Feb 9, 2021 From Theory Bias to Theory Dialogue: Embracing Cognitive, Situated, and Critical Framings of Computational Thinking in K-12 CS Education Participants: Amy, Bekir, Ian, Em
Week 118: Feb 2, 2021 Infusing Cooperative Learning into AP Computer Science Principles Courses to Promote Engagement and Diversity Participants: Ashish, Jessica, Beth, Em
Week 117: Jan 26, 2021 A theory of instruction for introductory programming skills Participants: Sara, Ira, Bryan, Em
Week 116: Jan 19, 2021 Design Studios for K-12 Computing Education Participants: Ira, Jared, Bryan, Ian, Em
Week 115: Jan 12, 2021 Broadening participation and success in AP CS A Participants: Bryan, Mark, Ian, Em
Week 114: Jan 5, 2021 Relating Natural Language Aptitude to Individual Differences in Learning Programming Languages Participants: Mark, Bryan, Ira, Jared, Em
Week 113: Dec 15, 2020 Why Computing Belongs within the Social Sciences Participants: Ira, Ian, Em
Week 112: Dec 8, 2020 Teacher Perspectives on COVID-19’s Impact on K-12 Computer Science Instruction Participants: Ian, Em
Week 111: Dec 1, 2020 Integrating Computing in School Subjects: A Conceptual Framework for Design and Analysis Participants: Vicky, Ian, David, Justin, Ira, Suba, Em
Week 110: Nov 24, 2020 A Multi-institutional Study of Peer Instruction in Introductory Computing Participants: Beth, Ian, Ira, David, Em
Week 109: Nov 17, 2020 To Scratch or not to Scratch? A controlled experiment comparing plugged first and unplugged first programming lessons Participants: Ira, Ian, David, Jared, Em
Week 108: Nov 10, 2020 Universal Design for learning CS (podcast: starts at 6 minutes) Participants: Ira, Ian, David, Em
Week 107: Oct 27, 2020 Reducing withdrawal and failure rates in introductory programming with subgoal labeled worked examples Participants: Ira, Jeremy, Jessica, Mariana, David, Ian, Em
Week 106: Oct 20, 2020 2020 State of Computer Science Education: Illuminating Disparities Participants: Sara, Jessica, Justin, Aleata, David, Mariana, Ian, Em
Week 105: Oct 13, 2020 Education in the Pandemic & the Potential for Computational Thinking Participants: Vicky, Ian, David, Mariana, Em
Week 104: Oct 6, 2020 Translating Culturally Relevant Pedagogy to Computer Science (Video) Participants: Mariana, David, Ian, Jeremy, Em
Week 103: Sept 29, 2020 Hedy: A Gradual Language for Programming Education -- Choice of paper or video. Participants: Mariana, Suba, David, Ian, Em
Week 102: Sept 22, 2020 Shriram Krishnamurthi, Teaching Computational Thinking Participants: Jared, Beth, David, Ian, Suba, Mariana, Em
Week 101: Sept 15, 2020 CS Equity Guide 2.0 Participants: Roxana, Beth, Kaya, Ian, David, Jared, Suba, Mariana, Em
Week 100!: Sept 8, 2020 Exploring Student Behavior Using the TIPP+SEE Strategy Particpants: Jessica, David, Ian, Em
Week 99: Sept 1, 2020 Putting students on the path to learning: The case for fully guided instruction and Mark Guzdial's take Participants: Ann, Mariana, Sheida, Beth, David, Ian, Em
Week 98: Aug 25, 2020 Advanced Placement (AP) Computer Science Principles: Searching for Equity in a Two-Tiered Solution to Underrepresentation Participants: Suba, Beth, Jared, David, Ian, Em
Week 97: Aug 18, 2020 Unfold studio: supporting critical literacies of text and code Participants: David, Ian, Em
Week 96: Aug 11, 2020 Improving explanations and learning activities in computing using semantic waves Participants: David, Ian, Em
Week 95: Aug 4, 2020 Measuring Computational Thinking Teaching Efficacy Beliefs of Preservice Elementary Teachers Participants: David, Ian, Em
Week 94: July 28, 2020 The Teacher Accessibility, Equity, and Content (TEC) Rubric for Evaluating Computing Curricula Participants: David, Ian, Josh, Beth, Jared, Em
Note: above paper paywalled, read this instead: Helping teachers make equitable decisions: effects of the TEC Rubric on teachers' evalulations of a computing curriculum
And a link straight to the TEC Rubric itself.
Week 93: July 21, 2020 A New Pedagogy to Address the Unacknowledged Failure of American Secondary CS Education Participants: David, Jared, Josh, Ian, Beth, Ann, Jeremy, Caryn, Em
Week 92: July 14, 2020 A Closer Look at Tracing, Explaining and Code Writing Skills in the Novice Programmer Our two-year anniversary! Participants: David, Shaq, Ian, Suba, Mariana, Ann, Laurie, Jeremy, Em
Week 91: July 7,2020 Assessing Creativity in Computing Classrooms Participants: Suba, Bryan, Ian, Em
Week 90: June 30, 2020 Design Principles Behind Beauty and Joy of Computing
Week 89: June 23, 2020 The Computer as Toolsmith II
Week 88: June 16, 2020 How the Tech Sector Could Move in One Direction
Week 87: June 9, 2020 When Twice as Good Isn't Enough: The Case for Cultural Competence in Computing [Washington 2020]