Computer Science Education @ King's

There is a growing amount of research in computer science education and also a need to be able to describe the key findings to teachers [...]

Recently (12th July 2016), the new standard for teacher professional development was released by the DfE, in conjunction with the Teacher Professional Development Trust. The [...]

Jane Waite: CAS London Project Manager, based at King’s College London, has had a poster accepted at WiPSCE 2016. Jane writes: I recently started a [...]

We are pleased to announce that our funding has been renewed for another two years to 31st March 2018. This is fantastic news for all [...]

WIPSCE (Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education) is a great conference for those interested in computer science education in school to attend as it [...]

CAS London Conference 2017 CAS London coordinates a yearly conference, where master teachers, university staff and other educators deliver a day of training to over [...]

Many teachers are able to recognise that students can find programming difficult and can identify the stages that novice school-aged programmers go through (cf Laura [...]

One of our PhD students, Maria Kallia, is working in the area of threshold concepts in programming. Here she discusses how her research is going [...]

We have a number of ongoing research projects at King’s College London in the area of computer science education in schools. If you teach Computing [...]

At King’s College London we are pleased to host a visiting researcher, Filiz Kalelioğlu, from Turkey, who is researching pedagogy and the BBC microbit. Physical [...]

The Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education will be held in Nijmegen from 8-10 November 2017. Although titled a “workshop” this is now an [...]

PRIMM is one approach that we hope can help teachers structure lessons in programming. It is based on research into the learning of programming but [...]

Link to survey I am conducting a survey to canvas the opinions of Computing teachers on whether/how aspects of data science might be relevant to [...]

The Bebras Computing Challenge introduces computational thinking to students. It is organised in 50 countries and designed to get students all over the world excited [...]

At King’s College London we are involved in research to better understand the teaching and learning of programming in school. In particular, our research project [...]

Jane Waite, of King’s College London & Queen Mary University of London, is researching ways of teaching programming, with the ultimate goal of supporting primary [...]

For many children, programming is challenging to learn and for visually impaired learners there are a number of additional barriers which need to be overcome. [...]

Computing is now integral to all sectors of the economy and society, to all aspects of public and private life, and has become a core [...]

At King’s College London we are conducting research around making computing education inclusive of all learners. Alex Hadwen-Bennett is currently carrying out research looking into [...]

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