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Warner, Jayce R.; Fletcher, Carol L.; Torbey, Ryan; Garbrecht, Lisa S. – Texas Education Research Center, 2020
Students living in rural areas are less likely to attend schools that offer computer science (CS) courses largely because educational institutions in these remote areas lack the resources to staff teaching positions for these courses. This study investigated the impact of WeTeach_CS, a program designed to train teachers to become certified to…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Computer Science Education, Faculty Development, High School Teachers
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Dana Shaat – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2023
Background/Context: There were over 500,000 open computing jobs across the country in 2018, but only 35% of U.S. high schools offer computer science classes, and only 8-10% of STEM graduates study computer science (Code.org, 2018). In 2021, only 5.1% of all Bachelor's degrees conferred were in Computer and Information Sciences (IPEDS, 2018). STEM…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, High School Students, Computer Science Education, Faculty Development