TY - GEN
T1 - An international benchmark study of K-12 computer science education in schools
AU - Falkner, Katrina
AU - Sentance, Sue
AU - Vivian, Rebecca
AU - Barksdale, Sarah
AU - Busuttil, Leonard
AU - Cole, Elizabeth
AU - Liebe, Christine
AU - Maiorana, Francesco
AU - McGill, Monica M.
AU - Quille, Keith
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Copyright held by the owner/author(s).
PY - 2019/7/2
Y1 - 2019/7/2
N2 - There has been a growing interest and increase in work shared about national K-12 Computer Science Education (CSED) curriculum and implementation efforts around the world. Much of this work focuses on curriculum analysis, country reports, experience reports and case studies. The K-12 CSED community would benefit from an international strategic effort to compare, contrast and monitor K-12 CSED over time, across multiple countries and regions, to understand pedagogy, practice, resources and experiences from the perspective of teachers working in classrooms. Furthermore, there is a need for validated and robust instruments that can support comparable investigations into the current state of K-12 CSED in schools around the world. Through a collaborative effort, this Working Group will develop a validated teacher survey instrument and collect data about CSED implementation and practice in K-12 classrooms. The authors will pilot the survey with K-12 teacher cohorts and analyse, compare and contrast survey findings across countries.
AB - There has been a growing interest and increase in work shared about national K-12 Computer Science Education (CSED) curriculum and implementation efforts around the world. Much of this work focuses on curriculum analysis, country reports, experience reports and case studies. The K-12 CSED community would benefit from an international strategic effort to compare, contrast and monitor K-12 CSED over time, across multiple countries and regions, to understand pedagogy, practice, resources and experiences from the perspective of teachers working in classrooms. Furthermore, there is a need for validated and robust instruments that can support comparable investigations into the current state of K-12 CSED in schools around the world. Through a collaborative effort, this Working Group will develop a validated teacher survey instrument and collect data about CSED implementation and practice in K-12 classrooms. The authors will pilot the survey with K-12 teacher cohorts and analyse, compare and contrast survey findings across countries.
KW - Computer Science Education
KW - Informatics Education
KW - ITiCSE Working Group
KW - K-12
KW - Schools
KW - Survey
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85070880862
U2 - 10.1145/3304221.3325535
DO - 10.1145/3304221.3325535
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85070880862
T3 - Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE
SP - 257
EP - 258
BT - ITiCSE 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
PB - Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
T2 - 2019 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE 2019
Y2 - 15 July 2019 through 17 July 2019
ER -