Board 64: Work in Progress: Update on the Impact of Secure and Upgrade Computer Science in Classrooms through an Ecosystem with Scalability & Sustainability (SUCCESS)

Lynette Michaluk; Mingyu Lu; Gay Bernadette Stewart

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Conference: 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Location: Baltimore , Maryland
Publication Date: June 25, 2023
Start Date: June 25, 2023
End Date: June 28, 2023
Conference Session: Computers in Education Division (COED) Poster Session
Tagged Division: Computers in Education Division (COED)
Page Count: 6
DOI: 10.18260/1-2--42886
Permanent URL: https://peer.asee.org/42886
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Lynette Michaluk West Virginia University

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PI, is a social sciences researcher at the West Virginia University Center for Excellence in STEM Education. Her research interests include broadening access to and participation in STEM. She is Co-PI of the National Science Foundation KY-WV Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation and Research Scientist for Secure and Upgrade Computer Science in Classrooms through an Ecosystem with Scalability & Sustainability. She is evaluator for RII Track 2 FEC: Enabling Factory to Factory (F2F) Networking for Future Manufacturing, and Department of Education Title III Strengthening Potomac State College, as well as several National Aeronautics and Space Administration STEM education initiatives.

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Mingyu Lu West Virginia University Institute of Technology

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Mingyu Lu received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1995 and 1997 respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2002. Fro

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Gay Bernadette Stewart

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This Work in Progress Paper provides an update on the Secure and Upgrade Computer Science in Classrooms through an Ecosystem with Scalability & Sustainability (SUCCESS) project, an NSF-funded (#2031355) Computer Science (CS) educational Research-Practice Partnership (RPP) whose shared goal is to provide high quality CS educational opportunities to all middle school students in a rural area. SUCCESS brings together people, programs, knowledge, and resources to provide CS education and career counseling to students in these middle schools. RPPs are a novel method that uses research in local educational contexts to increase access to CS in areas that typically lack necessary resources. The SUCESS RPP is creating a CS course sequence that satisfies a West Virginia (WV) middle school career exploration requirement and supports districts in implementing CS education in their schools, thereby expanding CS opportunities for rural students. Core RPP members are West Virginia University (WVU) Center for Excellence in STEM Education (CE-STEM), West Virginia University Beckley campus (WVU-B), the Raleigh County School District, the West Virginia Department of Education, and Code.org. The SUCCESS RPP partnership first convened at a summer 2021 workshop, where middle school-level “design teams” including teachers, principals and counselors were formed. These teams worked with district and university SUCCESS senior personnel to modify the most widely used CS curriculum in the world (Code.org) and understand how the RPP would use data obtained from partners and students of participating teachers. Data collected are used to provide and iteratively improve culturally responsive development (PD) and other supports to additional state districts in summer 2022 and 2023. In this paper, we provide an update of the impact of the project to date on numbers of teachers, counselors, and principals, and the number/percent of students who have taken the adapted CS course for each participating school, as well as challenges and how project personnel adapted the project to address these challenges. The RPP approach and our results can benefit anyone working to increase access to high-quality CS education at the K-12 levels.

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Michaluk, L., & Lu, M., & Stewart, G. B. (2023, June), Board 64: Work in Progress: Update on the Impact of Secure and Upgrade Computer Science in Classrooms through an Ecosystem with Scalability & Sustainability (SUCCESS) Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--42886

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	The SUCCESS RPP partnership first convened at a summer 2021 workshop, where middle school-level “design teams” including teachers, principals and counselors were formed. These teams worked with district and university SUCCESS senior personnel to modify the most widely used CS curriculum in the world (Code.org) and understand how the RPP would use data obtained from partners and students of participating teachers. Data collected are used to provide and iteratively improve culturally responsive development (PD) and other supports to additional state districts in summer 2022 and 2023. In this paper, we provide an update of the impact of the project to date on numbers of teachers, counselors, and principals, and the number/percent of students who have taken the adapted CS course for each participating school, as well as challenges and how project personnel adapted the project to address these challenges. The RPP approach and our results can benefit anyone working to increase access to high-quality CS education at the K-12 levels.

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