What (else) should CS educators know?
Communications of the ACM
Distance learning model with local workshop sessions applied to in-service teacher training
ITiCSE '99 Proceedings of the 4th annual SIGCSE/SIGCUE ITiCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Proceedings of the 6th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Discovering high-impact success factors in capstone software projects
Proceedings of the 10th ACM conference on SIG-information technology education
Have we missed something?: identifying missing types of research in computing education
Proceedings of the Sixth international workshop on Computing education research
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Assimilating a new CS curriculum requires appropriate inservice training. The emphasis in the new CS curriculum upon conceptual understanding requires teachers to become aware of characteristic ways in which students construct their knowledge and of common student difficulties. In this paper we describe a regional CS teacher workshop in which action research was used to trigger changes in teachers' knowledge and approach and especially to promote awareness of students' conceptual understanding. The favorable teacher evaluation of the workshop, and the action research products indicate that the workshop design promoted the beginning of a teacher change necessary for assimilating the new CS curriculum and establishing a collaborative community of teachers.