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The Design and Implementation of a Method for Evaluating and Building Research Practice Partnerships

Authors:

Callie Edwards,

Danielle Boulden,

Mary Lou Maher,

Mohsen Dorodchi,

Veronica Catete,

Tiffany Barnes,

Eric WiebeAuthors Info & Claims

SIGCSE '21: Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Pages 753 - 759

https://doi.org/10.1145/3408877.3432532

Published: 05 March 2021 Publication History

Abstract

We have established a research-practice partnership (RPP) to build a computer science (CS) and computational thinking (CT)-focused STEM ecosystem at two middle schools. Creating such an ecosystem to broaden student participation in computing through an RPP approach involves all stakeholders in the research process. Borrowing upon visual participatory research methods, we developed a graphic research instrument to engage teachers in the research process and elicit their perspectives on strategies for building the ecosystem. This experience report describes our research methodology across two distinct cases to demonstrate the utility of this drawing activity as an investigative and partnership development tool. The contribution is in offering a flexible approach to other university-based RPP teams that enables a synergistic partnership development tool and data collection instrument that can be tailored to a variety of RPP contexts, facilitating more productive and equitable ways of engaging stakeholders in the research process. We describe our project contexts and share results from the pilot study with practitioner-members of our RPP teams. We discuss two cases to highlight the contribution this approach made to the development of our partnerships.

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Index Terms

The Design and Implementation of a Method for Evaluating and Building Research Practice Partnerships
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
    1. Interactive learning environments
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. K-12 education

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DOI:10.1145/3408877

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Arastoopour Irgens GHerro DFisher AAdisa IAbimbade O(2023)Bop or Flop?: Integrating Music and Data Science in an Elementary ClassroomThe Journal of Experimental Education10.1080/00220973.2023.220157092:2(262-286)Online publication date: 21-Apr-2023
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El-Hamamsy LBruno BKovacs HChevalier MDehler Zufferey JMondada F(2022)A case for co-construction with teachers in curricular reform: Introducing computer science in primary schoolProceedings of the 24th Australasian Computing Education Conference10.1145/3511861.3511883(56-65)Online publication date: 14-Feb-2022
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