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Investigating Factors Predicting Effective Learning In A Cs Professional Development Program For K-12 Teachers, Patrick Morrow
Investigating Factors Predicting Effective Learning In A Cs Professional Development Program For K-12 Teachers, Patrick Morrow
Department of Computer Science and Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
The demand for K-12 Computer Science (CS) education is growing and there is not an adequate number of educators to match the demand. Comprehensive research was carried out to investigate and understand the influence of a summer two-week professional development (PD) program on teachers’ CS content and pedagogical knowledge, their confidence in such knowledge, their interest in and perceived value of CS, and the factors influencing such impacts. Two courses designed to train K-12 teachers to teach CS, focusing on both concepts and pedagogy skills were taught over two separate summers to two separate cohorts of teachers. Statistical and SWOT …