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Building a virtual community of practice for K-12 CS teachers

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Steve Cooper,

Shuchi Grover,

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 57, Issue 5

Pages 39 - 41

https://doi.org/10.1145/2594456

Published: 01 May 2014 Publication History

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Bringing educators together and focusing their interests toward improving computer science education in high schools.

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Parker MGuzdial MEngleman SSheard JTenenberg JChinn DDorn B(2016)Replication, Validation, and Use of a Language Independent CS1 Knowledge AssessmentProceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research10.1145/2960310.2960316(93-101)Online publication date: 25-Aug-2016
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Aspray WAspray W(2016)Recent Efforts to Broaden Formal Computer Science Education at the K-12 LevelParticipation in Computing10.1007/978-3-319-24832-5_4(103-145)Online publication date: 2-Mar-2016
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Building a virtual community of practice for K-12 CS teachers
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing and business
    2. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
        Information science education

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May 2014

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DOI:10.1145/2594413

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