Week

Date

Topic

Readings

1

10/01

Introductions

2

10/08

Mark Guzdial Blog Posts

Changing Computer Science Education to eliminate structural inequities and in response to a pandemic: Starting a Four Part Series

3

10/15

Mastery Grading and CSE 14x

https://rtalbert.org/traditional-grading-the-great-demotivator/ 

https://rtalbert.org/specs-grading-iteration-winner/ 

4

10/22

Research methods and Designing a CSE 14x study

Education Research Methods by Lauren Margulieux and Amanda Madden

5

10/29

Grading for Equity

Taking the Stress Out of Grading

Grading During the Pandemic: A Conversation

6

11/05

Students’ Prior Knowledge

First chapter of How Learning Works, here.

7

11/12

Education Myths & Active Learning

"Three Common Demands from Students in Large Classes and What to Do About Them" by Linda Hodges

"Anatomy of STEM teaching in North American universities" by M. Stains et. al.

Christopher Lynnly Hovey, Lecia Barker, and Vaughan Nagy. 2019. Survey Results on Why CS Faculty Adopt New Teaching Practices. (SIGCSE '19). 

8

11/19

Teaching CS Ethics

Ruha Benjamin: Incubate a Better World in the Minds & Hearts of Students transcript

Skirpan et al.: Ethics Education in Context: A Case Study of Novel Ethics Activities for the CS Classroom

9

11/26

Thanksgiving - NO CLASS

10

12/03

Antiracist Assessment Ecologies (with Asao B. Inoue)

Inoue, Asao B. (2019). “Classroom Writing Assessment as an Antiracist Practice: Confronting White Supremacy in the Judgements of Language.”  Forthcoming in Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, 19.3.

11

12/11

Wrap-Up and Reflection