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Analyzing the Effects of CTE Grant Funding on CS Course Offerings and Enrollment in California

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Mariam Saffar Perez,

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SIGCSE 2023: Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 1

Pages 46 - 52

https://doi.org/10.1145/3545945.3569812

Published: 03 March 2023 Publication History

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Computer Science (CS) courses classified as Career Technical Education (CTE) make up over half of all CS courses offered in high schools in California as of the 2018-2019 school year and are eligible for funding through CTE grants. There has been a growing focus on creating equitable access to CS as well as recommendations to use CTE funds for this purpose. This paper examines whether there is an increase in CS course offerings or CS enrollment as an effect of receiving CTE funding in California. Publicly available data from the California Department of Education (CDE) was used to conduct a two-way fixed effects analysis. Results indicate a null effect from these grants on CS course offerings and enrollment. These results raise questions as to other factors that might have played a larger role in the recent increase in CS course offerings and expansion of CS courses classified as CTE.

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    1. Computing education
      1. K-12 education

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Ramagoni SBrylow D(2024)Understanding Computer Science Teacher Capacity: A Case Study of Wisconsin Public High Schools2024 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)10.1109/FIE61694.2024.10892926(1-9)Online publication date: 13-Oct-2024
https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE61694.2024.10892926
Torbey R(2023)Inequities of Enrollment: A Quantitative Analysis of Participation in High School Computer Science Coursework Across a 4-Year PeriodProceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research - Volume 110.1145/3568813.3600125(344-355)Online publication date: 7-Aug-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3568813.3600125

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