The 2010/2011 Round 1 Pilots of AP CS Principles concluded in May … five sites

UC Berkeley : Brian Harvey & Dan Garcia

UC San Diego: Beth Simon UNC – Charlotte: Tiffany Barnes Metropolitan State College of Denver:

Jody Paul UW – Seattle: Larry Snyder

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Title 1st 2nd n1

MSCD

Living in a Computing World (S) F - 18

UC B The Beauty and Joy of Computing (S) F S 77

UC SD

Fluency with Information Technology (Q) F W 594

UNC C

The Beauty and Joy of Computing (S) S - 22

U W Computer Science Principles (Q) W - 22

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Programming Language

Lec

Lab

Dis

WksTotal Conta

ct

MSCD

Scratch, HTML/CSS

4 0 0 15 60

UC B BYOB Scratch 2 4 1 14 98

UC SD

Alice, Excel 3 2 0 10 50

UNC C

BYOB Scratch 3 0 0 15 45

U WProcessing, XML/XSL

3 2 0 10 50

Classifying Students (%, self)

Classification% UCB

77UCSD594

MSCD

18

UW 22

UNC22

Male 50 39.9 44 50 82.6

Female 50 60.1 56 50 17.4

Latino/Hispanic 13.4 7.2 25 18.2 4.3

Am Indian/AK Native 0 0 0 0 0

Asian American / Pac Isl

47.8 62.5 022.7 4.3

Black 3 8.1 0 0 21.7

White 25.4 23.9 75 50 65.2

Other 10.5 5.6 0 9.1 4.3

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Goal: Attract Women, Minorities

“Engage” Students In CS Concepts Students Agreed or Agreed Strongly that

▪ the course was of high quality (76.9%); ▪ the assignments promoted learning (74.6%);▪ they learned a great deal from the course (72.1%); ▪ the course was of value (70.8%);▪ the overall workload was appropriate (70.3%)▪ they were motivated to learn (68.9%);▪ they felt part of a group committed to learning

(64.3%); ▪ and the course stimulated their enthusiasm for

learning (61.5%).

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Overall Coverage of 7 Big Ideas

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Creativity

Abstraction

Apps & Impact

Systems

Programming

Algorithms

Data & Information

Following the Successful Start … CS Community Commented on Content CS Departments Endorsed the Idea College Board stated its “On Board” Revisions to Defining Documents (see

csprinciples.org) Course Annotations Computational Thinking Practices and Big

Ideas, Key Concepts, Supporting Concepts Learning Objectives and Evidence

Statements Second Round Schools Chosen

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2011/2012 Round 2 PilotsHigh School Teacher Partner

College/UContact

North Gwinnett HSDeepa Muralidhar

Geogria Tech Charles Isbell

Northside College Prep Chicago Lab HS

Don Yanek Baker Franke

Illinois Inst of Tech

Matthew Bauer

Hartford Acad Math & Sci

Chinma Uche Trinity College Ralph Morelli

Booker T Washington HS

Bill Cowles U Alabama Jeff Gray

Springdale HSMarilyn Sue Carrell

U Arkansas, L R Bemzi Seker

South Philadelphia HS Anne Urevick U Pennsylvania Jean Griffin

West High SchoolAndrew Kuemmel

U Wisconsin, Mad

Andrea Aroaci-Dusseau

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For Ed Council, What’s Next? Ed Council did its part to help launch AP The 10K Project is an Ed Council Focus Topic How Can We Help in the Next Phase?

>> For next n minutes, floor open for discussion For context, imagine we form a committee of EC

members that actually does the stuff we’re about to think up

For focus, imagine we let AP soar; we move to 10K

To drive the discussion, we have t topic slides

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Build Local CommunityMobilize local communities:

Town Halls – invite university faculty, high school teachers and local industry for informational meetings Purdue is a poster meeting

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Support Others to “Make Case”Prepare and disseminate materials

so community members can make the case for a “concepts-rich” CS education Must work for non-techies Video ∧/∨ PPT on single topic, e.g.

diversity is key Examples

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Build Statewide OrganizationsWork with CSTA chapters to form

statewide advocacy groups like CALCSEPOL Certification is state-level topic; need

advocates

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Adopt-A-SchoolFacilitate local funding options for

aligned efforts Guide district fundraise to train its CS

teachers

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Cast Broader ACM NetMobilize ACM communities

Get on the Agenda of the SIG Board and pitch idea of the SIGs hosting informational sessions SIGs with Ed Council representation up

to speed

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