By Dr. Joe Tise, Senior Education Researcher, Institute for Advancing Computing Education We can view reliability in education research as inherently linked to measurement error. For example, to be confident in claims we make about something we assess, the assessment...
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Podcasts! Considering K-5 Computing Education Practices
We're super excited to announce our long-awaited series on K-5 computing education podcasts! Our podcasts provide insights from discussions among teachers as they consider meaningful research and how they could adopt new practices into their classrooms. For educators,...
Join Us at the 2024 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium
We're always excited to attend the ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium, and this year is no exception with SIGCSE 2024! You can catch IACE team members (Laycee Thigpen, Joe Tise, Julie Smith, and Monica McGill) at the following events. (Pre-symposium events are invitation...
Key Levers for Advancing K-12 Computer Science Education
Computer science has become an essential skill for K-12 students, and there is a pressing need to advance K-12 CS education across the nation. To achieve this, there are several key levers that can advance change, including policy changes, teacher training and...
Learning More about Teaching AI
By Dr. Joe Tise, Senior Education Researcher, Institute for Advancing Computing Education Driving into the heart of Washington, D.C. is a unique experience. Mixed with thousands of business people, sight-seers, and the occasional politician shuffling to and fro, is...
Constructivism and Sociocultural Theory
By Dr. Joe Tise, Senior Education Researcher, Institute for Advancing Computing Education Behaviorism highlighted the influence of the environment, information processing theory essentially ignored it, and social-cognitive theory tried to strike a balance between the...
Introduction to Learning Theories Series
By Dr. Joe Tise, Senior Education Researcher, Institute for Advancing Computing Education If data is a pile of bricks, theory is a building plan. Used together, a house can be built and a valid representation of truth can be uncovered. This is why learning theories...
Behaviorism Introduction
By Dr. Joe Tise, Senior Education Researcher, Institute for Advancing Computing Education At least surface-level familiarity with Pavlov’s experiments and principles of classical and operant conditioning have become almost ubiquitous among the general public. What...
Information Processing Theory
By Dr. Joe Tise, Senior Education Researcher, Institute for Advancing Computing Education The stark limitations of behaviorist theories of learning gave rise (in part) to cognitive theories of learning, the most prominent of which is information processing theory...









