Computer Science Education

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We'd like to find out a bit about you and what computer science concepts you find the most challenging to teach.

What grade level do you teach?

Elementary school

Middle school/junior high

High school

Other:

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Is computer science/programming a core course or an elective at your school?

Core course

Elective

Other:

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What software have you previously used to teach computer science?

Alice

Scratch

Blockly

Google Code

Tynker

Other:

Please select the 3 topics that you find most challenging to teach

Tracing code steps

Testing and debugging

Bit operations

Data structures (queue, list, array, stack, tree, etc)

Conditionals and Loops

Functions

Parameter Passing

Return vs Print

Objects and classes

Event handling

Algorithms (searching and sorting)

Design (breaking larger problems into smaller ones)

Recursion

Computational complexity and growth

Variable scope

Other:

What do you think are the main barriers to teaching your first selection?

What do you think are the main barriers to teaching your second selection?

What do you think are the main barriers to teaching your third selection?

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