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The study focuses on understanding the discourse, interaction, and problem-solving relating to pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) demonstrated by teachers in one professional training workshop on Computational Thinking (CT) and its implementations in classrooms. 

Teachers often find it challenging to learn computational thinking (CT) and integrate it with classroom learning. In this systematic review, we focus on how professional learning experiences have supported K-12 teachers to integrate CT into their classrooms. The findings suggest some effective strategies for building professional learning experiences but highlight the need for more agreement about the nature of CT. 

In this paper, we focus on the design of assessments of mathematics teachers’ knowledge by emphasising the importance of identifying the purpose for the assessment, defining the specific construct to be measured, and considering the affordances of particular psychometric models on the development of assessments as well as how they are able to communicate learning or understanding. We add to the literature by providing illustrations of the interactions among these critical considerations in determining what inferences can be drawn from an assessment. We illustrate how the considerations shape assessments by discussing both existing and ongoing research projects. We feature discussion of two projects on which the authors of this paper are collaborating to demonstrate the affordances of attending to all three considerations in designing assessments of mathematics teachers’ knowledge to provide readers with opportunities to see those considerations in use.