Computing Education Research Blog

MARCH 18, 2024

Research in PCAS We’re starting to publish some of what we’re learning from PCAS. Thursday just after lunch, Neil Brown and I are presenting our paper, Confidence vs Insight: Big and Rich Data in Computing Education Research 13:45 – 14:10 at Meeting Room D135. What was their school like?)

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2024

During the day, I teach Algebra I classes to high school freshmen in Springfield, Missouri. One night per week, I teach preservice elementary school teachers who serve as paraprofessionals at K-12 schools in Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama and California through Reach University. Mistakes are valuable.

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ED Surge

MARCH 4, 2024

When Pierrce Holmes entered ninth grade, his school put him in 9C, a lower-level algebra class. Reflecting on his more recent experience as a policy analyst for RAND Corporation, a public policy research organization, Holmes doesn’t think it makes much sense that he had to hunt down the chance to try more difficult math.

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Scientix

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Picture provided by the author, attribution CC-B Y Thinking about how to make mathematics interesting for children and how to prompt and encourage them to independently research, search and “dig” new information on Internet, I decided to start a new project at the school level: “History of Mathematics”.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Imagine IM’s Inspire Math video Climbing Mount Everest links the drama of mountaineering to middle school work on percentages. Instead of traditional direct instruction, PBL in math encourages students to explore, discuss and understand mathematical concepts by solving problems collaboratively. So what makes PBL different?

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National Science Foundation

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Struggle is a regular part of mathematics class: students struggle to get started, to carry out a process, to express misconceptions and errors, and with “uncertainty in explaining and sense-making” (Warshauer, 2015, p. Generating Mathematically Productive Struggle.

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National Science Foundation

MAY 26, 2022

Implementing equitable mathematics instruction is an ongoing, collective commitment that must be made by teachers, schools, districts, and beyond to ensure that each and every student has access to high-quality mathematics instruction. National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), 2020b, p. Introduction.

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Computing Education Research Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Elise is a mathematics education researcher who has been studying how students come to understand counting problems. Few students in the US learn programming — less than 5% of high school students nationwide. She’d heard that I was interested in programming for teaching non-CS subjects, and that’s what she was doing.

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Talk STEM

APRIL 15, 2024

We’re always excited to see STEM discoveries and curiosity from the community, and as such are happy to highlight a brand new series of videos from students at the GEMS Camp – Girls interested in Engineering, Mathematics, and Science. Once scripts were completed over the next two days, the research team leads refined the script.

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Computing Education Research Blog

MAY 25, 2022

In February, I was invited to give a lecture at the University of Washington’s Allen School. The U-W CSE department had been thinking about making a push into computing education research. CS Education research dates back to the late 1960’s (see the history chapter that Ben du Boulay and I wrote ). What I do these days (e.g.

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ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2023

Tony Lam, head of mathematics at Marymount Primary School in Hong Kong, recognized the mindset change required to create a student-centered coding experience. EdSurge: How would you describe the CoolThink curriculum adoption for your school?

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

That’s the question the middle school class was struggling to answer. Fractions hadn’t really connected with the students, says John Barclay, a teacher in Richmond Public Schools in Virginia. Poor teacher support and inadequate training, researchers suggest, may be contributing. Is 2/7ths larger than 4/11ths?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2024

She says she’s not a math person, but she was able to pass her high school math classes without too much trouble, earning Cs. In the classroom, researchers don’t know much about what works for anxiety, Ganley says. But Ganley suggests that the research doesn’t support any blanket statements. It’s given her severe anxiety.

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Talk STEM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In our personal experiences, we agree with the Women in Tech panel that continuous exploration is a significant aspect of our STEM Mindset, especially during the school year. For example, this school year, we are taking AP Physics and learning to drive. What does a STEM Mindset mean to others?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Alex Briggs, has an interesting take on summer school, why you should start thinking about it now–in the Fall–and how to do that. I think you’ll find this interesting: Helping students to select the right summer school. Research their interests.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Calculus is a critical on-ramp to careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Researchers tapped alternative models of calculus teaching that have shown evidence that they work, according to Kramer. But, Kramer says, the research does serve a purpose by adding to the store of evidence that these methods work.

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Scientix

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Students’ perception is one of the most important nuances in primary school. Keywords: elementary school, STEM, STEM method. STEM is derived from the abbreviation of the capital letters of the words Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (Gonzalez and Cuenzi 2012). Why is STEM important in primary schools?

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Futurum

JULY 5, 2023

How are advances in technology improving dietary research? However, this is very time-consuming for both participants and researchers. As the researchers knew exactly what types and amounts of food and drink the participants consumed during the study, they could compare the real nutritional values with the values calculated by TADA.

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CTE Learning

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In the rapidly evolving landscape of education, the integration of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) curriculum at the middle school and high school levels has emerged as a transformative force. You cannot teach engineering or technology without including science and mathematics.

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CTE Learning

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In the rapidly evolving landscape of education, the integration of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) curriculum at the middle school and high school levels has emerged as a transformative force. You cannot teach engineering or technology without including science and mathematics.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Research from McKinsey revealed that, on average, K-12 students lost up to four months of mathematics and four months of reading progress in the last school year. With newly distributed federal stimulus funds now in hand, school districts nationwide are poised to set learning recovery plans in motion.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 10, 2023

School lore probably says they can drop a pin through a straw without touching the sides. Students researched online as often as in the library. That made the tech teacher (or whatever you call her in your school) the cornerstone to all things education, which brings me to the gist of this article: Teacher Appreciation Week.

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Career in STEM

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

From high school diploma to PhD, there’s something for everyone! In both science and engineering, mathematics and computation are fundamental tools for representing physical variables and their relationships. Top 5 Middle School Computer Science Activities. Computer Science Careers Webquest : One of our top 5 best sellers!

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2023

This ultimately led to a new introductory life sciences math course, Mathematics for Life Sciences (the LS 30 series). Figures from Pew Research Center indicate that Black and Hispanic workers and students are vastly underrepresented in STEM occupations and education programs.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 3, 2021

There’s always been something mystically cerebral about people in technical professions like engineering, science, and mathematics. School lore probably says they can drop a pin through a straw without touching the sides. Students researched online as often as in the library. Class screens became more norm than abnorm(al).

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Futurum

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The first student has an extremely high grade point average (GPA) from their school exams, while the second student’s GPA is still good, but not as high. They grew up in an affluent neighbourhood with wealthy parents who could afford to send them to a top-class school and pay for one-to-one tutoring to help them prepare for their exams.

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STEM Education Shopping

MAY 15, 2023

Is Cue robot research the future of STEM education? Today, I want to talk about a topic that’s been buzzing around the education world lately – Cue robot research. So, could Cue robot research be the future of STEM education? KEY TAKEAWAY Is Cue robot research the future of STEM education?

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Career in STEM

JANUARY 23, 2024

It doesn’t matter if it’s for school credit, paid or un-paid; the experience will always be worth it. Careers in STEM are so important because everything in our society depends on it; careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics are the backbone of our economy, our well-being, and our future.

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Futurum

JANUARY 12, 2023

What skills do you need to succeed in school? Students with low self-confidence in their abilities are more likely to struggle in school and withdraw from university. STEM — Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Published: Your academic identity plays a key role in your education. TALK LIKE A PSYCHOLOGIST.

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Computing Education Research Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

Emma Dodoo is an Engineering Education Research PhD student working with me and co-advised with Lisa Lattuca. When she first started working with me, she wanted a project that supported STEM learning in high school. The School at Marygrove requires all high school students to take a course in Engineering every year.

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ED Surge

APRIL 25, 2023

In his former school district in California, San Ramon Valley Unified School District, Rahul Bir noticed that the schools seemed inundated by technology. Schools have picked up all these new tech tools but it’s not always clear how teachers should actually use them. It pointed back to something he’d noticed before.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

If policymakers and education leaders can see how valuable the tools can be for [achieving] their existing goals, then they're hooked and more open to having the AI conversations and passing on that support to all the school districts and teachers whom they serve. What are the equity and ethical considerations when it comes to AI use? .

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Newton STEM

DECEMBER 18, 2022

The Newton Schools Foundation ‘s Year-End Annual Appeal seeks funds to support innovative programs in Newton Public Schools. The math coach and interventionist at each school will also be involved for students to ask for help/clarification as well as recognizing the students who have completed the challenge work.

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ED Surge

JUNE 3, 2022

But the sudden reliance on edtech during global school closures also painfully exposed some of its current weaknesses. These issues should be addressed urgently to stop undermining edtech’s vast potential to improve learning —whether in day-to-day school settings, or during humanitarian emergencies, such as the one unfolding in Ukraine.

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National Science Foundation

AUGUST 11, 2021

Equitable access to mathematics is a long-standing, yet unmet goal in mathematics education (Gutiérrez, 2018). There are many well-known obstacles to this goal, one of which is unexamined biases about who does and does not do mathematics (Walker, 2007). Both high school students completed the task during a one-on-one interview.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 25, 2023

These same reports show that teachers and students stand to gain these additional benefits: Learners get a chance to apply mathematical solutions to everyday problems Teachers can stimulate real-life situations where regular people and professionals use math formulas to solve problems. public schools provide students with computers.

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STEM Education Shopping

MAY 16, 2023

Today, I want to talk about a topic that’s been buzzing around the education world lately – Cue robot research. Is Cue robot research the future of STEM education? So, could Cue robot research be the future of STEM education? KEY TAKEAWAY Is Cue robot research the future of STEM education?

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