The Institute for Advancing Computing Education (IACE) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit research institute in the U.S. whose mission is to advance K-12 computing education for all children by enabling and disseminating exemplary evidence-driven research. This includes a focus on identifying culturally relevant promising practices and transforming student learning so that all students can benefit from computing education.

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Our Vision

IACE strives to be a leading research institute dedicated to enabling and disseminating high quality, data-driven, evidence-based K-12 computing education research. We design, conduct, promote, support and disseminate research that K-12 educators find relevant and actionable. These transformed research practices can then be used to promote high-impact practices among K-12 educators.

Our Goal

Our goal is to drive compuing education research forward by providing resources and training to enable researchers to produce high-quality research that answers meaningful questions about K-12 computing education. This is accomplished by identifying educators’ needs for developing promising classroom practices to enable academic achievement among all students.

Our Strategies

To accomplish this, we have adopted the following strategies for accomplishing our mission, vision and goals:

  • Advance the K-12 computing education research communities’ knowledge of producing relevant and rigorous research.
  • Widely disseminate research data and findings openly using existing and new support systems.
  • Analyze research findings to determine promising practices that are shared with K-12 Educators.

To find out how your organization can partner with us, please contact us.

Our History

Our Resource Center began through a National Science Foundation grant with Adrienne Decker, PhD, (University at Buffalo) and Monica McGill, EdD (formerly of Knox College). It has since expanded, growing in both collected data and technical guidance for researchers. In July 2019, Monica McGill established IACE (formerly CSEdResearch.org).

Interested in Partnering?

If you’re interested in partnering with us as either a donor or a collaborator, feel free to contact us.