REL Midwest partnered with a school district in Wisconsin to increase grade 6 students’ confidence, engagement, and achievement in math. To achieve this goal, the ENgagement and Achievement Through Computational Thinking (ENACT) partnership has developed a set of resources to support grade 6 teachers in integrating computational thinking and student-focused practices into their district’s grade 6 mathematics curriculum.
Current projects
REL Midwest provided grade 6 mathematics teachers with support and coaching to integrate computational thinking and student-focused practices into their mathematics teaching. REL Midwest also developed resources to support teachers and school leaders, including videos modeling integration of computational thinking and student-focused practices into mathematics lessons, viewing guides to support teachers in interpreting the videos, lesson planning templates, and student exit tickets. REL Midwest will combine these resources into a manualized approach to share with other districts and schools.
REL Midwest developed a measure of teachers’ student-focused pedagogical content knowledge for computational thinking in middle school mathematics. Partnering districts administered the measure to a sample of teachers. REL Midwest conducted analyses to examine the measure’s reliability and validity and will publish the final measure along with the study findings.
REL Midwest is testing the usability, feasibility, and acceptability of the ENACT professional development provided by its coaching team. The team will analyze data from teacher surveys and interviews to determine if ENACT is ready to scale and to identify opportunities to improve the professional development to ensure it can be successfully implemented within schools. REL Midwest also will examine student surveys, mathematics grades, and test scores to measure the relationship between ENACT and student achievement outcomes.
Completed projects
No projects at this time.