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CSTA
A new study released today by the Computer Science Teachers Association finds there is a dearth of valid and reliable assessments for measuring student learning in computer science education. Sowing the Seeds of Assessment Literacy in Secondary Computer Science Education, released during CSTA's annual conference, highlights the challenges US high school teachers face when examining student understanding of computing concepts and identifying current models for computer science assessment.
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CSTA
At their annual conference, the Computer Science Teachers Association, announced today that Dr. Betsy Hargrove, Superintendent of the Avondale Elementary School District (AZ), won the organization's second annual Administrator Impact Award. The Administrator Impact Award recognizes an administrator who has made an outstanding contribution in K-12 computer science. Educators from across the country nominated administrators who have improved student access to high quality computer science education. The nominations were evaluated on the basis of how the administrator influenced or improved K-12 computer science education, the scope and the impact of the nominee's contribution, and the extent to which they have demonstrated outstanding educator and leadership qualities.
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Education Week
While male and female students are earning high school math and science credits at similar rates, boys are still significantly more likely to take engineering and technology classes and to consider pursuing postsecondary STEM majors, according to the National Center for Education Statistics' latest update of the 2009 High School Transcript Study. The results also reveal stark differences in how high school students of different races are earning STEM credits. Asian students outperform other students in nearly all areas — they're more likely to take tougher science and math classes, earn more STEM credits, and consider majoring in STEM after high school. Black and Hispanic students remain much less likely than their white counterparts to take upper-level STEM courses.
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iSchoolGuide
The San Francisco Unified plans to bring computer science education to all its students, from preschool to the 12th grade. The district’s goal is to implement the computer science curriculum in every school by school year 2016-2017.
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Harvard Gazette
In addition to a passion for computer science, Harvard students Tom Silver '16, Kevin Yang '17, and Saranya Vijayakumar '18 share a common goal: to empower local middle school students. The College students are leaders in the Digital Literacy Project, a Harvard organization that teaches computer science to middle school students. To date, the project has led 36 programs in five Boston Public Schools sites, including the Jackson/Mann K-8 School, the Mission Hill K-8 School, and the Boston Teachers Union, teaching basic computer science skills to 500 students in the process. The project had an international scope when it was founded in 2008, working with the program One Laptop Per Child. But when Silver became president in 2013, he wanted to focus more on schools right here at home.
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LinkedIn
Here’s an update on the last 6 months at Code.org and our vision of bringing computer science to every school. On the 2 year anniversary of our first hire, we've made great progress against our goals: 1) Broadening participation in computer science and increase diversity — 46 percent of active coders on our platform are female. 37% percent are black or hispanic.
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EdSurge
One of the goals of academic assessment is to identify which students need help; the sooner they can be identified, the better. The promise of technology has been that its ability to collect unique data could make this process timelier, more accurate and less burdensome. But how might technology actually go about fulfilling this promise? Thus far, academic research suggests that technological tools can predict outcomes by collecting or analyzing data according to the following three different categories.
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eSchool News
CWIST, a Web platform supporting learning projects for students from 3 to 103, is making its content platform and education experts available to companies who want to turn their content into custom incentivized lessons. Its newest platform partner, Famulus Robots, offers step-by-step multimedia lessons using various robots to teach science and engineering concepts.
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IT World
If you're a college student trying to pick a major that will maximize your career prospects, it's no secret that computer science is a good choice. There's no shortage of data, reports and surveys which find that people with CS degrees can expect some of the some of the highest starting salaries of any field of study. Now comes a new survey of recent college grads which shows again that students who major in computer science have excellent job and salary prospects.
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