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.
Broadening Participation to Include African American and Hispanic Students with Disabilities in Computer Science Learning
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.
Mentorship and Project-Based Learning to Support CT and CSEd Pathways for Underrepresented Students in Los Angeles
Tyrone Howard
This project builds upon a current partnership between the Critical Design and Gaming Schools (C:\DAGS) in South Los Angeles and the Center for the Transformation of Schools (CTS) at UCLA that centers on effective interventions for 9th grade underrepresented students and expands the work to 300 students in 6th-12th grade. The project seeks to advance understanding of effective models for CT student development in schools that serve predominantly low-income students of color, as well as the types of educational pathways and partnerships that can remove barriers to learning and how CT development can be used as a means for promoting student learning in mathematics.
Design, Development, Implementation, and Testing of an Accessible CT Curriculum for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders
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.
Expanding Inclusive CS Education through the Jumpstarting Philadelphia CSforAll Researcher Practitioner Partnership
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.
A Partnership to Implement the Inclusive CS Model of Professional Development and a Digital Platform for Students with Disabilities
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).
Developing curricula and supporting teaching of computer science and computational thinking for multilingual learners in grades K-8
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.
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.