CS Education Research Class

• The first few weeks considers the role that computational literacy may play in a modern society.
• We will then consider how people understand computation – the naive understanding of specifying process and the cognitive dimensions of programming.
• We will spend a week considering what are research questions in this space.
• We will spend three weeks considering methods used in studying CS Ed questions.
• We will spend two weeks on one case study: The Media Computation approach, developed here at Georgia Tech.
• We will look at others' interventions to improve CS Education.

Course Assignments

• By week 3, be sure that you have human subjects certification so that we can add you to the course protocol.
• By week 6, you will define what you want to try to teach (or investigate) and how.
• During week 10, you will be responsible for reviewing two papers from the literature.
• In week 12, there will be a poster session where students will demonstrate their interventions or treatments to one another.
• You will then trial your intervention or treatment on at least three participants.
• In Dead Week, students will present the results of trials of their interventions.

• Syllabus
  • (If you have an AniAni account, you see the link above. If you do not, click This Syllabus Link and ask Mark for the keyphrase to get in.)
• Assignments
• Project Ideas
  • for any comments about projects
• Final Projects – Upload your papers here, if you'd like to share them.

• So? How did it go?