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.
Impacts of and Impediments to a District-wide Diffusion of Equity-centered Computer Science in Elementary Schools in an Urban District
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.
Integrate to Innovate
Ruth Kermish-Allen
This project will co-design an RPP in the state of Maine consisting of academic and non-profit educational researchers, three rural school districts, and business partners. The RPP will focus on developing a vision for the types of professional development that will enable the effective integration of CS education in rural, K-8 classrooms.
Empowering Educators to Create Customized, Culturally-Responsive Instructional Materials from Scratch Encore Harmonized with the Interest of Students
Diana Franklin
This project builds on a successful introductory computer science curriculum, called Scratch Encore, to explore ways to support teachers in bringing together - or harmonizing - existing Scratch Encore instructional materials with themes that reflect the interests, cultures, and experiences of their students, schools, and communities. This project is conducting foundational research that pursues two goals: (1) understanding how to support teachers in creating localized, culturally responsive computer science instructional materials and (2) understanding the effects of those materials on students.
ICS4All
Matthew Militello
The project builds on the trust and relationships engendered by an existing RPP to enable middle school students to benefit from the integration of specific computer science and computational skills into specific classes (art and music). The project will advance knowledge of how to introduce an educational innovation in rural school districts.
Researching the Impact of a Planning Tool for Guiding the School-Wide Integration of Computational Thinking Readiness for All at the Elementary School Level
Heather Sherwood
This project will create tools to support schools and districts in examining their current computational thinking teaching and learning experiences and develop plans for creating new experiences. The research process includes school leaders, teachers, and students to investigate the planning process at different sites and in schools with different levels of experience with computational thinking as part of their curriculum.
SUCCESS
Afrin Naz
This project will build on an established partnership to create an ecosystem to increase access to CS and participation of underrepresented middle school students in CS by addressing teacher CS content knowledge, principal and counselor understanding of how to support teachers, and the awareness of CS careers for 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.