Wow. No joke, this article is written by my 9th-grade geometry teacher. The same one that actively campaigned to remove me from of our school's gifted-and-talented mathematics track because I "asked too many questions" (despite being a consistent top performer in her class).
After high school I went on to earn a BS, MS, and PhD in mathematics and computer science (and successfully taught computer science to hundreds of students at a top-tier U.S. university) before moving on to an entrepreneurial career in the tech industry.
My experience is obviously personal and nothing but anecdotal, but I wouldn't trust this teacher to come to any conclusions about what does or doesn't work in computer science education without first attempting to control for her own lack of comprehension regarding the perceptions she has of her students (something she repeatedly relies on in this teacher research project).
Edit: to give credit where it is due, I did have two excellent and encouraging computer science teachers at that same high school.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 8.6 ms ] threadWow. No joke, this article is written by my 9th-grade geometry teacher. The same one that actively campaigned to remove me from of our school's gifted-and-talented mathematics track because I "asked too many questions" (despite being a consistent top performer in her class).
After high school I went on to earn a BS, MS, and PhD in mathematics and computer science (and successfully taught computer science to hundreds of students at a top-tier U.S. university) before moving on to an entrepreneurial career in the tech industry.
My experience is obviously personal and nothing but anecdotal, but I wouldn't trust this teacher to come to any conclusions about what does or doesn't work in computer science education without first attempting to control for her own lack of comprehension regarding the perceptions she has of her students (something she repeatedly relies on in this teacher research project).
Edit: to give credit where it is due, I did have two excellent and encouraging computer science teachers at that same high school.