Computer science education still has diversity gaps
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Google’s Vice President of Education and Research, Maggie Johnson, recently published this blog on the latest Gallup poll investigating diversity gaps in computer science education. We’ve reprinted this with permission. You may also access statistics from the Gallup poll here. Jobs in the computing field are expected to grow by 13 percent between 2016 […]
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How to Attract the Girls: Gender-specific Performance and Motivation to learn Computer Science
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In this blog post, Peter Hubwieser summarizes his work (with co-authors Elena Hubwieser and Dorothea Graswald) that was published in a 2016 journal article. Here, he highlights research exploring the importance of reaching girls earlier through motivation. The attempt to engage more women in Computer Science (CS) has turned out to be a substantial challenge […]
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Designing Assessments in the Age of Remote Learning
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As we start to ramp up our blog series via CSEdResearch.org, we reached out to Miranda Parker to learn about what she’s researching these days in K-12 CS Education. Her work is both timely and…well, read on to learn more! Currently, I’m working as a postdoctoral scholar with a team at University of […]
Continue ReadingPressing Research Questions from Practitioners
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During EdCon 2019 held in Las Vegas, Chris Stephenson, Head of Computer Science Education Strategy for Google, met with a group of practitioners and policy makers to learn what research questions they would like to see answered. First, they asked the group to brainstorm questions for which they need answers and share all of their […]
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