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View article: Belonging to a research-practice partnership: Lessons from 15 think-pieces about the COVID-19 pandemic and a call for action
Belonging to a research-practice partnership: Lessons from 15 think-pieces about the COVID-19 pandemic and a call for action Open
Research-Practice Partnerships (RPPs) in education have been gaining increasing currency and support since well before the advent of COVID-19. This article reflects on what the pandemic experience has meant for some RPPs so far, and imagin…
View article: Who Has a Seat at the Table in CSed?
Who Has a Seat at the Table in CSed? Open
Who makes decisions about what K-12 computer science education(CSed) should look like? While equitable participation is a central focus of K-12 CSed, the field has largely thought about equity through the lens of providing access to inclus…
View article: Computational Sophistication of Games Programmed by Children
Computational Sophistication of Games Programmed by Children Open
This article builds on prior work that aims to measure computational learning (CL) during middle school. Since game computational sophistication (GCS) has been used as a proxy for a student’s engagement in CL we build on their model to mor…
View article: Is Your Game Generator Working? Evaluating Gemini, an Intentional Generator
Is Your Game Generator Working? Evaluating Gemini, an Intentional Generator Open
Determining whether a game generator is working properly is challenging, since it entails conducting potentially many evaluations of generated games and synthesizing these into a net evaluation of the system. The problem is compounded when…
View article: Negotiating Trust, Power, and Culture in a Research–Practice Partnership
Negotiating Trust, Power, and Culture in a Research–Practice Partnership Open
This article describes the role of culture and power in building a research–practice partnership (RPP). The original aims that drove the building of the RPP were to generate and use research to inform the programs and services provided by …
View article: Does Computer Game Design and Programming Benefit Children? A Meta-Synthesis of Research
Does Computer Game Design and Programming Benefit Children? A Meta-Synthesis of Research Open
It is widely believed that there are educational benefits to making computer games, but there is no systematic review of research on this topic. This article describes a meta-synthesis of research on children designing and programming comp…