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Caeli, Elisa Nadire; Yadav, Aman – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2020
In the recent years, there has been a push to engage primary and secondary students in computer science to prepare them to live and work in a world influenced by computation. One of the efforts involves getting primary and secondary students to think computationally by introducing computational ideas such as, algorithms and abstraction. Majority…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Problem Solving
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Lachney, Michael; Bennett, Audrey G.; Eglash, Ron; Yadav, Aman; Moudgalya, Sukanya – Computer Science Education, 2021
Background: As teachers work to broaden the participation of racially and ethnically underrepresented groups in computer science (CS), culturally responsive computing (CRC) becomes more pertinent to formal settings. Objective: Yet, equity-oriented literature offers limited guidance for developing deep forms of CRC in the classroom. In response, we…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Computer Science Education, Equal Education, Case Studies
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Qian, Yizhou; Hambrusch, Susanne; Yadav, Aman; Gretter, Sarah; Li, Yue – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2020
A quality computer science (CS) teacher needs to understand students' common misconceptions in learning CS. This study explored one aspect of CS teachers' understanding of student misconceptions: their perceptions of student misconceptions related to introductory programming. Perceptions in this study included three parts: teachers' perceived…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Misconceptions, Introductory Courses, Programming
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Gretter, Sarah; Yadav, Aman; Sands, Phil; Hambrusch, Susanne – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2019
The current efforts to expand computer science (CS) education in K-12 schools, such as the "CS for All" initiative, highlight the need for all students to get an opportunity to study computing. However, as recent research has shown, diversity in computing at the K-12 level remains problematic, and additional research is needed to look at…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Barriers, Student Diversity, Teacher Attitudes
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Yadav, Aman; Gretter, Sarah; Hambrusch, Susanne; Sands, Phil – Computer Science Education, 2017
The increased push for teaching computer science (CS) in schools in the United States requires training a large number of new K-12 teachers. The current efforts to increase the number of CS teachers have predominantly focused on training teachers from other content areas. In order to support these beginning CS teachers, we need to better…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Competencies
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Qian, Yizhou; Hambrusch, Susanne; Yadav, Aman; Gretter, Sarah – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2018
The new Advanced Placement (AP) Computer Science (CS) Principles course increases the need for quality CS teachers and thus the need for professional development (PD). This article presents the results of a 2-year study investigating how teachers teaching the AP CS Principles course for the first time used online PD material. Our results showed…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Faculty Development, Online Courses, Electronic Learning