CS4Impact: Measuring Computational Thinking Concepts Present in CS4HS Participant Lesson Plans

Authors

Heather Bort, Marquette University
Dennis Brylow, Marquette UniversityFollow

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Language

eng

Publication Date

2013

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Source Publication

Proceedings of the 44th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '13)

Source ISSN

9781450318686

Abstract

In this paper, we aim to directly measure a CS4HS workshop's participating teachers' ability to synthesize CSTA computational thinking core concepts into actionable lesson plans for courses in their current teaching repertoire. Participants were expected to present a lesson plan on the final day of the workshop, highlighting the integration of their classroom curriculum with computing and computational thinking skills. We present our evaluation rubric, used to rate the teachers effective use of the computational thinking core concepts in their lesson plans, and describe how our method of evaluation may more accurately gauge the overall impact that CS4HS workshops have on their participants.

Comments

Published in Proceedings of the 44th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '13): 427-432. DOI.

Recommended Citation

Bort, Heather and Brylow, Dennis, "CS4Impact: Measuring Computational Thinking Concepts Present in CS4HS Participant Lesson Plans" (2013). Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Faculty Research and Publications. 539.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/mscs_fac/539