TY - GEN
T1 - Three metrics of success for high school csforall initiatives
T2 - 51st ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2020
AU - Lim, Kip
AU - Lewis, Colleen M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020/2/26
Y1 - 2020/2/26
N2 - There has been an expansion of computer science (CS) in high schools in the USA. In most cases, initiatives seeking to expand high school CS offerings are not focused simply on increasing the number of students enrolled, but are focused on broadening participation in computing (BPC). Ideally we can evaluate and replicate effective BPC, or CSforAll, initiatives at the high school level. However, analyses of CS expansion frequently focus on the national landscape, despite the decentralized nature of public education in the USA. State-level analyses, when present, often do not take into account the demographics of high school students in the state, which are also changing over time. We propose three metrics for evaluating the impact of state-level initiatives to broaden participation in computing at the high school level. These metrics and our data set can be helpful benchmarks for evaluating high school CSforAll initiatives.
AB - There has been an expansion of computer science (CS) in high schools in the USA. In most cases, initiatives seeking to expand high school CS offerings are not focused simply on increasing the number of students enrolled, but are focused on broadening participation in computing (BPC). Ideally we can evaluate and replicate effective BPC, or CSforAll, initiatives at the high school level. However, analyses of CS expansion frequently focus on the national landscape, despite the decentralized nature of public education in the USA. State-level analyses, when present, often do not take into account the demographics of high school students in the state, which are also changing over time. We propose three metrics for evaluating the impact of state-level initiatives to broaden participation in computing at the high school level. These metrics and our data set can be helpful benchmarks for evaluating high school CSforAll initiatives.
KW - Advanced placement
KW - Computer science pipeline
KW - Cs for all
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U2 - 10.1145/3328778.3366810
DO - 10.1145/3328778.3366810
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85081614442
T3 - Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE
SP - 598
EP - 604
BT - SIGCSE 2020 - Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 11 March 2020 through 14 March 2020
ER -