Parents' engagement in their children's education is key to academic success and social development. For many parents the U.S., still a struggle partly due lack of communication community-building tools that support broader ecology parenting, or parental ecology. Although current technologies have potential create opportunities improve engagement, little known about impact existing technology's design on We present findings from 63 interviews with an observation parent-school interactions....

Socioeconomic status (SES) has a measurable impact on many educational outcomes and likely also influences computer science (CS) achievement. We present novel model to account for the observed connections between SES CS examined possible mediating variables achievement, including spatial ability access computing. define as comprised of measurements prior learning opportunities computing, perceptions science, encouragement pursue The factors (SES, ability, achievement) were measured through...

A sense of belonging is key to pursuing and persisting in computing. It also one the reasons for low representation women Black people Research has attempted understand why these underrepresented groups feel like they do not belong These initiatives tend analyze race gender separately as if experience aspects identity separately. For who are seeking computing, sorts analyses problematic. just "women plus color, or gender" [1]. Intersections their yield unique experiences them. Thus, that...

Gestures, or spontaneous hand movements produced when talking, are an untapped resource for understanding student knowledge in computing education. This paper develops a conceptual framework to support future studies of learning and teaching that incorporate gesture programming contexts. In particular, this introduces how has been used study another discipline, mathematics; critically reviews interprets what concepts methods may be most relevant contexts; also discusses unique challenges...

The goal of this project is to use projection augmented reality add design studio learning models a classroom for an introductory Media Computation computer science class. Students do classwork using enhanced version Pythy, web IDE Python and Jython, that captures students' work displays it around the room. We leverage Microsoft RoomAlive Toolkit construct room-scale pairs projectors depth cameras. system "pins" walls, where teachers students can see discuss work. hope by seeing each other's...

Modern learning theories emphasize the critical social aspect of learning. Computer science (CS) classrooms often have "defensive climates'' that inhibit and prevent development a community learners. We believe we can improve context computer by expanding CS beyond single student in front display screen. Our theory is inhibits collaboration collaborative awareness work. In this paper, present two case studies where explored ways to make work visible peers. The first study involved using...

Systems of power - such as structural racism, a system that upholds the ideology white supremacy are invisible and permeate our everyday lives un/intentionally into research. As these systems influence what counts 'successful' work, CSEd researchers often have to assimilate ('whiten') themselves their work dominant ideals uphold structures. This workshop brings together aspiring early-career critically examine unpack impacts on ourselves research practices. Such examination is necessary...

Walk into a CS1 classroom and you may see instructors communicating the properties of some abstract CS concept through gesture. Students try to understand how piece code executes by sketching trace, drawing arrows crossing out values while using spatial language like, …afterwards, comes back up here then goes down.

Prime III is a multimodal voting system that allows users to use touch or voice make selections on their ballot. This paper discusses an experiment evaluated the system's speech recognition at various levels of background noise. An approach simulate realistic noise in controlled environment described. helped mimic voter precinct. The goal was establish threshold for when distortion occurs and accuracy declines. signal-to-noise ratios (SNR) between volumes were recorded tested. result...

Spatial reasoning concerns the locations of objects, their shapes, relations to each other, and paths they take as move. People with high spatial scores are more likely major in degrees STEM disciplines go into careers than those low scores. tends be amongst students socioeconomic status. We need understand relationship between reasoning, status, success learning computer science. If there causal relationships among these variables, we will appropriate interventions order broaden...

Computer science teachers want to know what their students are and not learning understanding. Gestures, or spontaneous hand movements produced when talking, could help understand thinking. During communication, gestures often reflect thoughts expressed people talk (Goldin-Meadow & Wagner, 2005). Listeners can then extract meaningful information from the they see. When computer science, may be an external representation of students' understandings code. In this research, we conducted a...

Abstract Work-in-Progress: Leveraging Cloud Computing and Web Standards to Support Learning Objectives in Multiple ClassroomsAccording the National Institute of Technology (NIST), is “amodel for enabling convenient, on-demand network access a shared pool configurablecomputing resources.” These resources are designed be quickly easily managed withminimal effort by either provider or user. Such an approach computing broadly ofinterest, but potential application education both exciting...

Spatial reasoning may be a strong predictor for career in Computer Science (CS) [9]. However, it is unclear why and how spatial abilities lead to success CS. Investigating the role of learning CS important broadening participation. Most students who excel are white males or from high socioeconomic status (SES) [2, 5]. These same typically score higher on tests than their peers [1]. Thus another factor preventing marginalized communities succeeding