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Title: The Effectiveness of Summer Professional Development for K-8 Computer Science Teachers
The growing interest in offering computer science (CS) in public schools has illuminated the need for more trained K-8 educators. This paper provides initial evidence that carefully structured professional development (PD) that focuses both on CS skills/concepts and pedagogy can successfully impact teacher outcomes. Testing before and after the summer PD showed significant increases in teachers’ knowledge of CS concepts and computational thinking, as well as confidence in their CS skills and pedagogy. The only moderating effect was for rural versus urban differences in CS confidence.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1837476
PAR ID:
10273684
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Editor(s):
Marks, G. H.; Schmidt-Crawford, D.
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference
Page Range / eLocation ID:
77-81
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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