CS Education Research Class
Welcome! This is the website for the Computer Science Education Research class.
Here's the overall flow of the course:
- 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.
Feel free to create a page for yourself on Who's Who.
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.
