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.
Broadening Participation to Include African American and Hispanic Students with Disabilities in Computer Science Learning
Changing Expectations Corp
Phillip Eaglin
Changing Expectations Corp proposes a project to study and increase African Americans and Hispanics with disabilities' interest, engagement, learning, knowledge, and persistence in computer science education (CS) and careers through the use of Voice User Interface Project-Based Learning.
Impacts of and Impediments to a District-wide Diffusion of Equity-centered Computer Science in Elementary Schools in an Urban District
University of Massachusetts Amherst
W Richards Adrion
This research-practice partnership project is studying the impacts of and impediments to a district-wide diffusion of an equity-centered computer science curriculum in 32 elementary schools. The partnership is employing a teacher-co-designed curriculum that integrates the concepts and practices defined in the Massachusetts Digital Literacy and Computer Science framework with other standards-based elementary English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies curricula.
Design, Development, Implementation, and Testing of an Accessible CT Curriculum for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Youngstown State University
Abdurrahman Arslanyilmaz
The project will determine what accessibility issues students with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) would face with a CT curriculum designed for mainstream students, design and implement instructions to make this curriculum accessible to students with ASD, and compare the effectiveness of the accessible curriculum to the standard curriculum.
A Partnership to Implement the Inclusive CS Model of Professional Development and a Digital Platform for Students with Disabilities
George Mason University
Amy Hutchison
Through a Research-Practitioner Partnership with Fairfax County Public Schools, this project will prepare teachers to both implement and design inclusive computer science curricula for all students, including those with high-incidence disabilities. To do so, the investigators will use the Inclusive Computer Science (ICS) Model of professional development (PD) and a universally-designed tool, created by the researchers, called the Digital Effective Platform for Inclusive Computational Thinking and Computer Science (DEPICT-CS).
Expanding Inclusive CS Education through the Jumpstarting Philadelphia CSforAll Researcher Practitioner Partnership
Drexel University; Temple University
Jeffrey Popyack
The goal of this Researcher Practitioner Partnership is to bring equitable, inclusive, and high-quality computer science instruction aligned with educational standards to all Philadelphia students through a Networked Improvement Community (NIC). The critical problem the partnership will address is the lack of equitable access to certified CS educators in Philadelphia high schools.
Developing curricula and supporting teaching of computer science and computational thinking for multilingual learners in grades K-8
University of California-Santa Cruz
Kip Tellez
This project will examine how to develop and sustainably implement innovations that can support K-8 teachers' ability to engage their students in computer science and computational thinking in a manner that is relevant to the learners' lives and communities. The project will employ a design-based research approach collaboratively designing innovations with teachers, students and their families, testing these in classrooms and the community, and refining them over the span of the project with the aim of scaling up their impact and increasing the overall capacity of the district to support computer science education for all students.
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.