Using a Research-Practitioner Partnership approach to developing a shared evaluation and research agenda for CSforALL: RPPforCS is a National Science Foundation funded project.
The four-year project will:
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Develop a Connected Community of Practice.
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Develop & manage a participant-driven, multi-site research agenda.
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Convene a Researcher-Evaluator Working Group (R-EWG) to develop a process for advancing the shared-research agenda.
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Collect qualitative and quantitative data about RPPforCS projects’ implementation and common impact data.
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Provide an infrastructure for dissemination of project work.
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.
Welcome Cohort 4!
The latest group of CSforAll: RPPs has been approved by the NSF, and you can find a list of those partnerships as of September 11th, 2020, here.
Our Core Leadership Team:
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (Award No. 1745199). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
Alan Peterfreund
Principal Investigator
SageFox Consulting Group
Leigh Ann DeLyser
Co-Principal Investigator
CSForAll
Rebecca Zarch
Co-Principal Investigator
SageFox Consulting Group
Stacey Sexton
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SageFox Consulting Group
Stephanie Wortel-London
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CSForAll
Monica McGill
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CSEdResearch
Other Partner Organizations:
Expanding Computing Education Pathways (ECEP)
Here is our 2020 Survey Highlights Screencast:
For the full report, CLICK HERE
For a transcript of this video, CLICK HERE
Resources Created through RPPforCS
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.
CAFECS
Lucia Dettori
This project will address gaps in CS course performance among Latinx students in Chicago Public Schools by adapting the Build Connections program, a new evidence-based strategy to help teachers and students connect course content to students' lives, as a complement to the ECS curriculum framework.
Encoding Geography
Michael Solem
This project will create an inclusive HS to college curriculum pathway that bridges concepts in CS and geography through the development of a curriculum that is conceptually rigorous, inclusive, and culturally relevant. It will also produce a replicable approach for teaching geocomputation that is accessible and motivational for all learners.
CSAwesome
Jennifer Rosato
This RPP will investigate how to best prepare and support teachers who are new to CS as they transition from teaching the AP CSP course to the AP CSA Java course. The RPP team will use a DBIR RPP model utilizing an iterative approach to refine the CSAwesome curriculum and PD to meet the needs of teachers transitioning from AP CSP to CSA.
CS For and By Teachers
Anita Crowder
This project focuses on teacher capacity to access and implement CS- and CT-integrated curricular materials, and equity in CS/CT learning opportunities for all students by developing and testing a model to support teachers in the development and adaptation of their own culturally relevant lesson plans that integrate CS and CT across core subjects.
E-Facilitation Partnerships
Joanna Goode
This project team will partner with experienced ECS facilitators and teachers to develop an online PD program to train CS teachers in physical computing along with pedagogy skills that addresses equity into CS teaching. The newly developed PD program will then be delivered to interested ECS teachers over the course of two years.
Culturally Relevant Robotics
Frances Harper
The purpose of this RPP is to generate an actionable theory of change for promoting CT and a sense of belonging in computer science through a culturally relevant robotics program developed in partnership with university teacher educators and researchers, administrators, teachers, coaches, and Black and Latinx children and their families.
Using the Project Maps
The first map, "Projects by Research Team" shows the dispersion of project PIs 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.
The second tab, "Projects by Implementation Location" demonstrates the distribution of projects by the proposed state of implementation. As with the first map you can filter down by Grade Band and Curriculum Used. If you click on a given state a list of all the projects planning to implement within that state will appear in the column on the left-hand side of the map.
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.