In this paper, we present our experience in designing computing curriculum for Middle
School students. Computing education is becoming an important part of STEM education …

The Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles (APCSP) course was introduced in
2016 to address long-standing gender and racial/ethnic disparities in the United States …

Purpose There is a need for precollege learning designs that empower youth to be
epistemic agents in contexts that intersect burgeoning areas of computing, big data and …

Background and Context: While assessment of computational thinking concepts, practices,
and perspectives is at the forefront of K-12 CS education, supporting student communication …

Programming skills are an important component of an engineering curriculum, not only
because they enable the customization of software tools to be used in the profession, but …

The Finnish national school curriculum, effective from 2004, does not include any topics
related to Computer Science (CS). To alleviate the problem that school students are not able …

Evidence-centered design (ECD) is an assessment framework tailored to provide structure
and rigor to the assessment development process, and also to generate evidence of …

Portfolios have recently gained traction within computer science education as a way to
assess students' computational thinking and practices. Whereas traditional assessments …

The gap between enrollments in higher education computing programs and the high-tech
industry's demands is widely reported, and is especially prominent for women. Increasing …

The success of block-based programming environments like Scratch and Alice has resulted
in a growing presence of the block-based modality in classrooms. For example, in the United …