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Participation measures the extent that students opt in to a CS learning opportunity.
Participation measures the extent that students opt in to a CS learning opportunity.
To investigate participation, we will use data to answer the following questions:
1) How well do our AP CS courses represent our population district-wide and school-wide?
2) How well do our CS courses represent our population district-wide and school-wide?
Below, you will find two sets of data sets organized by course type.
Key Conclusions:
AP CS A and AP CS Principles are not accurate reflections of several of our population subgroups.
In both, our AP course enrollments of hispanic/latino, female, and black students are significantly below what they should be given our school enrollment data reported on EdSight.
In both, our special education, english as a second language (ESOL), and asian student enrollment is significantly above expected percentages based on school enrollment.
Looking at all HS CS Courses for the current (2020-21) school year, our HS CS Courses are not accurate reflections of several population subgroups.
Combining data from both high schools, our female and hispanic student populations are under-represented in computer science and our black, asian, and special education students are over-represented.
Looking at Conard HS and Hall HS data separately, Conard had a slightly higher representation of female and hispanic students. Hall has greater over-representation of asian and special education students.
Hall HS has a higher percentage of free/reduced lunch students studying computer science than Conard HS does. While Hall is over-represented, Conard is under-represented.
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