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Yin-Chan Liao; Jiyoung Kim; Anne T. Ottenbreit-Leftwich; Michael Karlin; Meize Guo – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2024
Objectives: Computer Science (CS) education has become increasingly prevalent in elementary schools because of multiple rationales, such as the importance of computational literacy and the growing demand for CS-related workforce preparation. As elementary CS standards continue to be adopted by many states, more examples and voices from the field…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Computer Science Education, Teacher Attitudes, Computer Literacy
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Guzdial, Mark; Ericson, Barbara; Mcklin, Tom; Engelman, Shelly – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2014
Georgia Computes! ("GaComputes") was a six-year (2006-2012) project to improve computing education across the state of Georgia in the United States, funded by the National Science Foundation. The goal of GaComputes was to broaden participation in computing and especially to engage more members of underrepresented groups which includes…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Educational Policy, Computer Science, Intervention
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Khenner, Evgeniy; Semakin, Igor – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2014
This article deals with some aspects of studying Informatics in Russian schools. Those aspects are part of the "third dimension" of the Darmstadt model (they are also projected on the other two dimensions of this model) and include evolution of the subject, regulatory norms conforming to the Federal Educational Standards, the learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Computer Science Education, Secondary Education