Paper Info
Title
Identifying Design Principles for CS Teacher Ebooks through Design-Based Research.
Abstract
Several countries are trying to provide access to computing education for all secondary students. However, there are not enough teachers who are prepared to teach computer science. Interactive electronic books (ebooks) are a promising approach for providing low-cost professional development in computer science. Over the last four years, our research group has been conducting design-based research by iteratively developing and testing versions of a teacher ebook to help secondary teachers with no programming experience learn to teach an introductory programming course. The interactive elements in the ebook were designed based on research results from educational psychology and are intended to make learning more efficient and effective. Our goals for this effort are to increase teachers' knowledge of computer science concepts and to improve teachers' confidence in their ability to teach computer science. In this paper we summarize our previous work and report on a large-scale study of version two of the teacher ebook. We also recommend several design principles for interactive ebooks for computing teachers based on feedback from teachers, log file analyses, and randomized controlled studies.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/2960310.2960335
ICER
Keywords
Field
DocType
high school teacher professional development, ebooks, electronic books, design-based research
Design elements and principles,Design-based research,Computer science,Professional development,Pedagogy,Educational psychology,Multimedia
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.50
21
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Barbara J. Ericson119924.10
Kantwon Rogers2102.24
Miranda Parker3374.87
Briana B. Morrison419322.14
Mark Guzdial52274354.35