Publications

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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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Title
Type
Date

The Changing Profile of ECS Teachers

This study compares the characteristics and professional development (PD) experiences between teachers who began teaching Exploring Computer Science.
Conference
Mar 2020

Attending to issues of Equity in Evaluating Research-Practice Partnership Outcomes

This paper highlights the importance of integrating equity throughout the design of a research-practice partnership.
Article
Sep 2019

Research Methods for Reaching Urban Students from Groups Underrepresented in STEM Disciplines

This book chapter charts lessons learned from the CAFÉCS partnership and recommends strategies for conducting research in urban settings.
Chapter
Sep 2019

Using research-practice partnerships to improve practice in Chicago Public School

This paper reports initial findings from this evaluation, focusing on the second and third dimensions: (1) conducting rigorous research to inform action and (2) supporting the partner organization to achieve its goals.
May 2019

Chicago Alliance for Equity in Computer Science (CAFÉCS): Cycles of Improvement

The CAFÉCS leadership team presented a poster about the CAFÉCS problem solving process at the Inaugural Symposium on Computer Science and Learning Sciences at Northwestern University.
Conference
Apr 2019

Study of access and outcomes from advanced placement coursework in the Chicago Public Schools

Our primary research question for this poster is the extent to which there is equitable representation and outcomes of students who pursue advanced CS coursework in CPS.
Conference
Apr 2019

An Examination of the Correlation of Exploring Computer Science Course Performance and the Development of Programming Expertise

This study investigated patterns in the development of computational thinking and programming expertise in the context of the Exploring Computer Science (ECS) program
Conference
Mar 2019

RPPs: Love ‘Em or Leave ‘Em?

In this experience paper we describe what we have learned about the field’s interests with respect to adopting RPP approaches to the work.
Conference
Feb 2019

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