The RPPforCS project connects the teams through virtual meetings (webinars), in-person meetings, and meetings of the R-EWG. Here you will find information about the participating grant teams, project activities, and resources from the project.
Searchable RPP Database and Maps
This database allows you to search through our existing community of projects on a range of characteristics. You can use this resource to find people who are geographically close to you, working on a similar problem of practice, working with a similar student or teacher population, and more!
The first map of the embedded “RPPforCS Projects Map”, "Projects by Research Team" shows the dispersion of project PIs across the country. The second map, "Projects by Implementation Location" demonstrates the distribution of projects by the proposed state of implementation. The “RPPforCS District Maps” insert provides a map of US school districts within which one or more NSF: CSforAll RPPs are operating, as well as tables of demographic data for these districts. All of these maps have a set of demographic data associated with projects and/or locations that can be filtered upon.
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RPP Project Database
The RPPforCS searchable database allows you to search through our existing community of projects on a range of characteristics. You can use this resource to find people who are geographically close to you, working on a similar problem of practice, working with a similar student or teacher population, and more! The database will automatically update itself with your chosen filters shortly after selecting them.
If you are looking for potential BPC partners, then you may find the following filters the most useful:
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The “District Population” filters allow you to search for projects by the populations of the districts that they are known to be operating in. Note that these are not necessarily the target population, but may provide insight into the environment that a project is operating in.
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The “Urban/Rural Class” filter allows you to search for projects by the US Census designation of projects’ district partners.
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The “Keywords” filter allows you to search for projects by key areas of focus, such as pathways programs or PD delivery.
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The “State of Implementation” filter allows you to search for projects by state. Only states with at least one project are listed.
An Equity-Focused Approach to Integrating Physical Activity and CS Education for K-8 Learners
Temple University; University of Texas at Austin
Jamie Payton
This project expands upon the Project SMART RPP by exploring how to engage students in CS and whether students are more engaged in and successful at CT learning objectives if these objectives relate to data that is relevant to them: their physical activity, their interests, their environment, and, importantly, their own collected data.
Supporting CT for middle school mathematics students through diagrammatic reasoning and representational logic
Kennesaw State University Research and Service Foundation
Alan Shaw
This RPP studies conjectures about the learning of CT through the development of a curricular and pedagogical intervention. The intervention adds a computational environment to a successful effort called the Algebra Project, and is focused on engaging all students in a predominantly African American middle school in CT.
Integrating Computer Science into the Elementary Curriculum in Culturally Relevant Ways
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences
Joseph Wilson
This project will write, pilot, and refine a curriculum for grades 3-5 that integrates computer science and Wyoming Indian Education for All social studies standards in culturally relevant ways. The project will then publish this curriculum for use in other districts and states nationwide that serve Native students.
Supporting participation of underrepresented youth in computing using tangible computational craft kits
Georgia Tech Research Corporation
HyunJoo Oh
This project will develop tangible computing kits to allow students to observe and work with otherwise invisible computing concepts and principles. The project will support inclusive participation in computing by providing learners with these new kits and activities based on culturally-relevant pedagogies.
Preparing High School Teachers to Broaden Participation by Teaching Programming Online
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Manuel Perez-Quinones
This project will develop and offer an online professional development course for high school teachers to prepare them to teach computer science to diverse learners including learners from underserved and underrepresented groups through the use of automated graders as well as culturally responsive instructional materials to teach computing.
Centering minoritized high school students' perspectives from introductory CS through 12th grade and beyond
University of California-Los Angeles
Jean Ryoo
This project looks closely at how and why students perceive their computer science courses during their high school years. The investigators will interview minoritized youth in Los Angeles and Mississippi high schools to learn what makes a difference for their engagement, sense of belonging, and agency with computing.
RPPforCS Project Maps
The first tab, "Projects by Research Team" shows the dispersion of NSF: CSforAll RPPs across the country. By toggling the filters on the right-hand side of the map you can filter the view by which Grade Band a project is targeting as well as the type of curriculum that the projects will be using. Note that points are staggered to allow overlapping projects to be visible.
The second tab, "Impact Area" demonstrates the distribution of NSF: CSforAll RPPs by the proposed state of implementation. As with the first map you can filter down by Grade Band and Curriculum Used. Mousing over or clicking on a state will display all grade bands being targeted by RPPs in that state, all curricula being used by RPPs in that state, and a list of all projects operating in that state.
RPPforCS District Maps
This set of maps details the districts that NSF: CSforAll RPPs are known to be partnered with and the overall demographics of students in those districts. These demographics do not necessarily represent the specific student subgroups (if any) being targeted by NSF: CSforAll RPPs, however. It should also be noted that projects will frequently only work directly with a subset of schools within a district, and a project's presence in a district on this map does not imply that they are working with every school in a given district.
All of these tabs can be filtered by searching for a project's name, by state, or by districts' urban/rural status as defined by the US Census.
The first tab "RPPforCS Continental District Map" displays all known public school districts partnered with one or more NSF: CSforAll RPPs.
The second and third tabs "District Race/Ethnicity Demographics vs. State Demographics" and "District Race/Ethnicity Demographics vs. National Demographics" provide details for each RPP-partnered school district's student demographics compared to their state or national student demographics, respectively. They also provide information on which projects are operating in each district. The "Examine by" drop-down menu in the top right of each tab can be used to select what demographic group to display data for.
The last tab "Other Demographic Information" shows district-level student data for the percentage of students eligible for free/reduced lunch as well as the percentage of those who are English as a second language/limited English proficiency students. Any blank rows indicate that there is currently no data for a given district.