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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Type
Date

Code, Clicks, and Classrooms: Exploring the Learning Behaviors of Code.org Users

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of user engagement data from the Code.org platform, with a focus on both student and teacher interactions.
Report
Sep 2023

Assessing Chicago Public School Students’ Computer Science Knowledge: Applying a Cognitive Diagnostic Assessment

This summer fellowship report presents the results of the application of Cognitive Diagnostic Modeling to the ECS pre and post assessments as well as the spatial reasoning assessment from the Geospatial Semester project.
Report
Sep 2023

Getting Students Invested in Computer Science: Student and Teacher Factors That Influence Computer Science Motivation

This study examined the influence of expectancy, value, and cost and students' perceptions of elements of their instructor’s teaching were used to predict motivation after completing the Exploring Computer Science curriculum.
Report
Sep 2023

Correlation Between Failure Rate and Student and Teacher Characteristics 

This study analyzes student course failure patterns within the Exploring Computer Science (ECS) course across Chicago Public Schools.
Report
Sep 2023

Measuring Computer Science Success in Chicago Public Schools and Milwaukee Public Schools

This webinar is the culminating event of the 2023 CAFÉCS/PUMP-CS Summer Research Fellowship. It was an opportunity to highlight important research on computer science education and recognize the hard work and dedication of our educators and students.
Webinar
Aug 2023

The Effect of Computer Science Course-Taking on Science Outcomes in Chicago Public Schools

This report examines the relationship between completion of computer science coursework and performance in high school science classes.
Report
Jul 2023

Scientific communities of practice: K–12 outreach model around organism responses to repeated hurricane disturbances

Collaboration between ecologists and learning scientists can give rise to powerful models for scientific outreach. Learning scientists and ecologists codesigned a science curriculum that invites students to join an ecological community of practice.
Article
Jul 2023

Designing Educative Tools for Scientific Argumentation: A Case Study of DBR Before and During the Pandemic

Designing Educative Tools for Scientific Argumentation: A Case Study of DBR Before and During the Pandemic.
Chapter
Jul 2023

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