Creating a Teacher Pipeline in Computer Science: A Review of Research in Educating Preservice Teachers in Computational Thinking and Computer Science.

• In Event: TED- Relationship between Teacher Beliefs & Preparation (v)

Short Description

To inform how we can prepare preservice teachers to teach computer science and computational thinking (CS/CT) ideas, we need to investigate current efforts in integrating CS/CT in teacher education and their influence on teacher outcomes. We will follow Torraco’s (2016) integrative literature review framework to examine how CS/CT is being addressed at the preservice level through empirical studies from 2006 to 2021. We seek to investigate (1) What curriculum/ interventions are being used with preservice teachers to learn about CT/CS? and (2) What methods do scholars use to evaluate these interventions? Our review of literature on preparing preservice teachers in CT/CS will help identify how relevant articles as well as the strengths and weaknesses of the current research in preservice teacher education. In addition, the review could help us investigate the two research questions on the types of interventions/curriculums being used, and how researchers were investigating the impact of those interventions/curriculums on preservice teachers.

Authors

• Presenter: Ya-Huei Lu, East Carolina University

• Presenter: Anne Ottenbreit-Leftwich, Indiana University

• Presenter: Yin-Chan (Janet) Liao, East Carolina University