Computer science education research awards
Overview
Google’s Computer Science Education Research (CS-ER) Awards provide funding for one-year proof-of-concept pilots. In addition to receiving funding, awardees join a year-long cohort experience that creates opportunities for researchers to share expertise and tools and provide mentoring to new researchers. See awards participants.
Award details
Program status
Applications are currently closed.
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Award details
Awards are disbursed as unrestricted gifts to the researcher’s university or organization and are not intended for overhead or indirect costs. We welcome proposals that are interdisciplinary (for example, intersections of computer science, education, cognitive sciences, psychology, sociology, neuroscience, instructional design, et cetera), empirically-based, and focused on advancing the scientific understanding and practice of CS teaching and learning in scalable ways. Proposals that include partnerships across multiple institutions are especially welcome.
FAQ
Priority research areas include, but are not limited to:
- Developmental readiness: What are effective instructional strategies for identifying whether a student is developmentally ready to learn particular CS concepts?
- Engagement: How does early CS experience impact future interest in CS?
- Equity: What interventions, supports, approaches or materials are most effective for increasing engagement and success for students from historically marginalized groups?
- Implementation: How can districts and states verify the effectiveness of their CS education implementations?
- Preservice education: What exemplary and scalable models exist for incorporating CS learning into teacher preparation programs?
- Professional development: What are the best practices for CS PD in terms of positively impacting student learning?
- Teaching CS: What models of CS content delivery provide the largest impact on students learning (after school, in school discrete courses, in school integrated into other disciplines)? How do we measure effective CS teaching?