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.
SCRIPT Crew TN
Stephanie Wortel-London
This partnership between CSforAll and CodeCrew will connect the state level actions with school and district level plans and data, focusing explicitly on the pathways designed and experienced by students as they move through K-12 programs. The team will also design teacher pathways with a focus on initial teacher preparation as well as the development of advanced teacher knowledge.
CAFECS
Steven McGee
The Learning Partnership, DePaul University, and Chicago Public Schools (CPS) will collaborate to increase access to and success in AP Computer Science Principles (AP CSP), for African American and Hispanic students, who are traditionally underrepresented in computer science and specifically in AP computer science courses. The project will provide systems of support to address the challenges inherent in preparing all students and teachers for success in AP CSP and ensure the course is taught using culturally responsive pedagogy.
CTCS
Diane Levitt
This partnership between Cornell University, New York University, The New York City Department of Education’s CSforALL unit, and a New York public elementary school aims to address the issue of marrying computing and core disciplines in a way that will do justice to all subjects and meet the needs of all teachers and learners by integrating computational thinking into English Language Arts and math classes. This project builds on a three-year pilot that demonstrated promise in this approach to build confidence in computer science for both the teachers and the students they serve.
Districts Helping Districts
Lisa Milenkovic
This research-practitioner partnership (RPP) between Digital Promise Global and the Broward County School Board builds upon prior work that designed inclusive K-12 computing pathways. The RPP will leverage the CT Pathways Toolkit designed from prior work and implement a teacher-led model of professional learning at scale for district administrators and instructors.
CR in CS
Paige Prescott
This project will establish a design-based implementation research partnership between the Computer Science Alliance, the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) New Mexico Chapter, and researchers from New Mexico State University and the National Indian Education Association. Together, the team will hold a series of convenings to co-design, gather feedback from stakeholders, and ultimately pilot a culturally responsive pedagogy-focused microcredential.
CS4NorthCal
Hao Yue
San Francisco State University, WestEd, and 20+ school districts will collaborate and launch CS4NorthCal to address 2 major challenges in high school computer science (CS) education: (1) a lack of student access to rigorous CS instruction and (2) a lack of gender, ethnic, disability, and racial diversity in high school CS courses. By scaling an effective model for preparation, professional development (PD), and ongoing support for high school CS teachers to improve their CS content knowledge and pedagogical skills, this project will increase rigorous and engaging CS course offerings to all high school students.
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.