Georgia Computes! An Intervention in a US State, with Formal and Informal Education in a Policy Context

Autor/inn/en	Guzdial, Mark; Ericson, Barbara; Mcklin, Tom; Engelman, Shelly
Titel	Georgia Computes! An Intervention in a US State, with Formal and Informal Education in a Policy Context
Quelle	In: ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 14 (2014) 2, Artikel 13 (29 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1946-6226
DOI	10.1145/2602488
Schlagwörter	Informal Education; Educational Policy; Computer Science; Intervention; Disproportionate Representation; Computer Literacy; Summer Programs; Faculty Development; Secondary School Teachers; Secondary School Students; Elementary School Students; Program Descriptions; Student Attitudes; Workshops; Student Motivation; Program Evaluation; Females; Minority Group Students; Educational Research; Georgia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Informelle Bildung; Nichtformale Bildung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Informatik; Computerkenntnisse; Sommerkurs; Sekundarschüler; Schülerverhalten; Lernwerkstatt; Schulung; Schulische Motivation; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Weibliches Geschlecht; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung
Abstract	Georgia Computes! ("GaComputes") was a six-year (2006-2012) project to improve computing education across the state of Georgia in the United States, funded by the National Science Foundation. The goal of GaComputes was to broaden participation in computing and especially to engage more members of underrepresented groups which includes women, African Americans, and Hispanics. GaComputes' interventions were multi-faceted and broad: summer camps and after-school/weekend programs for 4th-12th grade students, professional development for secondary teachers, and professional development for post-secondary instructors faculty. All of the efforts were carefully evaluated by an external team (led by the third and fourth authors), which provides us with an unusually detailed view into a computing education intervention across a region (about 59K square miles, about 9.9 million residents). Our dataset includes evaluations from over 2,000 students who attended after-school or weekend workshops, over 500 secondary school teachers who attended professional development, 120 post-secondary teachers who attended professional development, and over 2,000 students who attended a summer day (non-residential) camp. GaComputes evaluations provide insight into details of interventions and into influences on student motivation and learning. In this article, we describe the results of these evaluations and describe how GaComputes broadened participation in computing in Georgia through both direct interventions and indirect support of other projects. (As Provided).
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