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Fri 28 Feb 2025 10:45 - 11:03 at Meeting Rooms 306-307 - K-12 Curriculum Chair(s): Bill Siever

National frameworks for science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and computer science (STEM+CS) education aim to integrate CS within K-12 science classrooms. However, the ways that elementary teachers verbally support CS integration during classroom enactment of STEM+CS projects has rarely been considered in research. This paper uses a descriptive, single case study methodology in the bounded context of a public elementary school to explore how two fifth-grade science teachers implicitly and explicitly support the integration of STEM+CS disciplines within a CS-focused lesson through verbal supports that were either planned in the STEM+CS project curricular materials or added by the teachers. Data sources included transcripts of all whole-class discussions that occurred while the two fifth-grade science teachers co-taught a CS lesson that spanned three fifty-minute class periods to two different classes. Two researchers team coded instances of teachers’ verbal support of STEM+CS integration, wrote memos for each instance, and graphed the instances on a four-quadrant, analytic framework which was divided along an axis of explicit or implicit verbal support and an axis of planned or added verbal support. The researchers then grouped their memos by quadrant and used pattern coding to look across instances for emerging themes. Findings include that most instances of verbal support for STEM+CS interdisciplinary integration were added by the teachers and implicitly articulated how disciplinary practices related to each other. Implications include recommendations for ways to help teachers to explicitly support the integration of STEM+CS through CS-focused activities within elementary science classrooms.

Fri 28 Feb

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10:45 - 12:00
K-12 CurriculumPapers at Meeting Rooms 306-307
Chair(s): Bill Siever Washington University in St. Louis
10:45
18m
Talk
A Case Study of Elementary Teachers’ Enactment of an NGSS-Aligned Computer Science Lesson: Verbal Support of Science, Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science IntegrationK12
Papers
Sarah Lilly University of Virginia, Anne McAlister University of Virginia, Jennifer Chiu University of Virginia
11:03
18m
Talk
Detecting AI-Generated Pseudocode in High School Online Programming Courses Using an Explainable ApproachK12
Papers
Zifeng Liu University of Florida, Xinyue Jiao New York University, Wanli Xing University of Florida, Wangda Zhu University of Florida
11:22
18m
Talk
Curriculum for a Comprehensive Statewide In-Service CS Teacher Training ProgramK12
Papers
Sarah Diesburg University of Northern Iowa, J. Ben Schafer University of Northern Iowa, Briana B. Morrison University of Virginia
11:41
18m
Talk
Exploring the Impact of Quizzes Interleaved with Write-Code Tasks in Elementary-Level Visual ProgrammingGlobalK12
Papers
Ahana Ghosh Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Liina Malva Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Alkis Gotovos Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Danial Hooshyar Tallinn University, Adish Singla Max Planck Institute for Software Systems