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Mitigating the Base-Rate Neglect Cognitive Bias in Data Science Education
How can machine learning educators help learners cope with the base rate neglect cognitive bias?
From BLOG@CACM
Advice For CS Education from Science and Mathematics Education
We have a lot to learn from standards efforts in science and mathematics education.
From BLOG@CACM
A Call to Action For Higher Education to Make AP CS Principles Work
The new Advanced Placement exam in CS Principles will be offered in May 2017. It's time to figure out what colleges and universities are going to do about it.
From BLOG@CACM
The Bottleneck in Increasing Accessibility to CS Education Is Producing Enough CS Teachers
The demand for CS teachers is growing. Now we have to figure out how to increase the supply.
From BLOG@CACM
Be It Resolved: Teaching Statements Must Embrace Active Learning and Eschew Lecture
Let's encourage active learning by requiring it in teaching statements.
From BLOG@CACM
Top 10 Myths About Teaching Computer Science
Let's put some evidence behind those summertime faculty email list battles about CS teaching.
From BLOG@CACM
Improving Computing Education By Viewing Teaching as Community Property
Teaching about computing should be shared, not isolated behind closed doors.
From BLOG@CACM
The Babble of Computing Education: Diverse Perspectives, Confusing Definitions
A wide range of differing definitions and diverse adoptions in computing education make it hard to understand and define
From BLOG@CACM
Providing On-Line CS Teacher Education, Designed For Teachers
Announcing a research-based resource for helping high school teachers to learn Python and CS Principles
From BLOG@CACM
Computing Education Must Go Beyond Intuition: The Need For Evidence-Based Practice
Computing educators' practice would dramatically improve if we drew on evidence, rather than intuition.
From BLOG@CACM
Rising Enrollment Might Capsize Retention and Diversity Efforts
Rapid increase of enrollment in CS classes in the US might undermine efforts to improve diversity.
From BLOG@CACM
The Role of Tech Firms in Computing Education
Computing education can't be about jobs. It has to be about schools to reach everyone.
From BLOG@CACM
Is There a 10x Gap Between Best and Average Programmers? And How Did It Get There?
There's not much evidence for a 10x programming productivity gap, but it doesn't matter from an education perspective.
From BLOG@CACM
Anyone Can Learn Programming: Teaching > Genetics
Way more important than the question "Is P==NP?" is the question, "Is teaching greater than genetics?"
From BLOG@CACM
The State of Computing Education in the World: Report on the 2014 ACM Education Council Meeting
The ACM Education Council gets together once a year to share initiatives and results, and promote computing education.
From BLOG@CACM
Recursion and Language at ICER 2014: A Conference Report
Recursion and the unique challenges of programming languages were highlighted at ICER 2014
From BLOG@CACM
If You Want to Teach Kids CS, First Teach the Adults
The pathway to CS in schools starts with teaching the adults.
From BLOG@CACM
Why Counting CS as Science or Math Is Not Considered Harmful
On the path to computational literacy for all, we need computing in schools, under whatever category.
From BLOG@CACM
What It Takes to Be a Successful High School Computer Science Teacher
We should not prepare high school CS teachers the way we prepare software developers. Successful CS teachers use different skills.
From BLOG@CACM
The Danger of Requiring Computer Science in K-12 Schools
We are not ready to make CS a requirement for all children in the U.S., even if that's where we want to be one day.
From BLOG@CACM