Paper Info
Title
Helping Teachers Make Equitable Decisions: Effects Of The Tec Rubric On Teachers' Evaluations Of A Computing Curriculum
Abstract
Background and Context: Educators make consequential curricular decisions, often with little support, particularly as it relates to equity and how to support all students.Objective: This paper investigates the use of a rubric to support educators evaluating computer science curricula, especially with regards to equity.Method: Seventeen in-service elementary teachers evaluated a computer science curriculum with and without the Teacher Accessibility, Equity, and Content (TEC) Rubric. We examine teachers' responses to prompts and completed TEC Rubrics to understand if and how the rubric supported their evaluations.Findings: The TEC Rubric helped teachers attend not only to curricular factors related to instructional design but also to issues of equity and accessibility and to identify opportunities to draw on the cultural resources of students and their communities.Implications: We contribute evidence supporting curricular evaluation instruments, specifically the TEC Rubric, and their use to direct teachers' attention to attributes of equitable computing instruction.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1080/08993408.2020.1788862
COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Computer science education, rubrics, equity, K-12
Journal
31
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
0899-3408
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Merijke Coenraad105.07
Connor Hopcraft200.34
Jane Jozefowicz300.34
Diana Franklin433240.85
Jen Palmer503.04
David Weintrop616225.08