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Through long-term partnerships with schools, districts, and community organizations, The Learning Partnership partners to inspire a joy of learning in all students. We collaboratively engage in rigorous research that both informs solutions and contributes to educational theory. This section provides an archive of The Learning Partnership's publications. The publications can be filtered by partnership, research area, author, keyword, and type.

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Type
Date

Equity in AP CSP Participation Under a Districtwide Graduation Requirement: A 7‑Year Analysis of Chicago Public Schools

This presentation focuses on the representativeness of students who completed AP CSP over the course of seven years in CPS.
Conference
Aug 2026

ITEST Data Jam 2024–25: Teacher Focus Group Report

What do teachers think about Data Jam? Puerto Rico educators share candid insights on implementing Data Jam in the classroom.
Report
Apr 2026

Who Succeeds in ECS? An Investigation into Post-ECS CS Computational Thinking Among Chicago Public Schools Students

This report examines which students benefit most from CPS's ECS implementation by analyzing how prior ability, demographics, performance, attitudes, and teacher practices predict computational thinking skills.
Report
Nov 2025

Drivers and barriers to offering AP CSP in Chicago Public Schools: An interview analysis

This report examines the factors influencing the implementation of Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles (AP CSP) across Chicago Public Schools (CPS), aiming to address inequities in advanced computer science (CS) education.
Report
Nov 2025

Insights from Interviews with Data Jam Students

This technical report analyzes insights from interviews with students who participated in the Data Jam program.
Report
Aug 2025

Automatic Short Answer Grading for Computer Science Placement Exam with Meta Llama

this project explores the use of large language models (LLMs), specifically Meta's open-source Llama family, for automatic short answer grading (ASAG) in a computer science placement exam.
Report
Aug 2025

Examining Capacity and Equity in Computer Science in Chicago Public Schools: A Longitudinal Study 

This paper examines the school level factors that are correlated with the presence of an AP CSP teacher at the school.
Conference
Aug 2025

CAFÉCS Stories of Research Integration

The Chicago Public Schools hosted the Freedom within the Form symposium to officially release its Equity-Centered Research Approach (EqRA). CAFÉCS was invited to share examples of how we have implemented the research integration elements of the EqRA.
Conference
Aug 2025

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