Landscape Survey Summary

Classes Offered: from 2012 to 2014 Keyboarding classes decreased by 8% Pre-AP CS increased by 10% AP CS is offered at an equal percentage Other CS classes up by 7%

For Schools where CS is not offered 71% of teachers said it had been discontinued in 2014 (only 50% in 2012) lack of interest as a reason went up 63% budget lack went up 10% lack of qualified teachers went up 17%

Q13: What department is CS in? From 2012 to 2014 CS moved from business departments (down ~10%) to technology and math departments Q15: Are county requirements enforced? The 2014 respondents felt requirements are not enforced (61%) over the 50/50 split in 2012

Student Enrollment Question 20: How many students do you have enrolled? In 2012, most had students. In 2014, most had students

Class Content Question 23: What topics are covered in your courses? Equal weight topics: Programming, Hardware Decreased Interest Topics: (% is how much they decreased) Ethics (4%) Logic (4%) IT careers (17%) IT colleges (6%) Networks (2%) Increase Interest: (% is how much they increased) Problem Solving (8%) Graphics (10%) Web (12%) Security (4%) Game Design (9%) Productivity Software (4%) Databases (5%)

Class Content Continued Question 24: from 2012 to 2014 languages taught Java decreased 10% Alice decreased 15% Visual Basic up 5% (from 1 teacher to 3 teachers) Scratch increased 9% Javascript increased 18% Python increase 4% (2 teachers to 3) C# increased 2% (one teacher) HTML and C++ are equal both years

Question 25: What credit does CS count as (from 2012 to 2014) Tech Ed Credit decreased 20% Computing increased 2% Business Increased 5% Math decreased 5% (now down to 1 teacher) Science increase 2% (from 1 to 2 teachers) Other increased 9% and Gen Ed 5%

Q 27-30: AP CS stats AP CS increased by 2% Bigger classes but less kids enrolled in AP CS Roughly same number of women %10-%20 More minorities - more classes with 40% or more (14% to 22%) oddly, also the 0% went up Other IT coureses increased 14%

Q32 (2012) and Q33 (2014) How much of your classes are CS/IT?

ACM CSTA Standards never heard decreased from 50% to 34% Using it increased from 18% to 23%

Student Reasons to not take CS 85% of teachers think more kids should take CS (both years) Why students don’t take CS: perceived as male dominated/geeky is less common from 2012 to 2014 unaware/lack of knowledge was same both years subject too difficult decreased slightly from 2012 to 2014 greater interest in other subjects increased ~25%

Why doesn’t the school offer more CS? From 2012 to 2014: insufficient interest decreased by 18% Budget decreased ~15% Lack of qualified teachers: increased 8% Not a grad requirement increased 3% Not a priority decreased by 20% Not a priority for School System decreased 20% Student Support: Lack of interest decreased 13% Parents are more encouraging in 2014 (by ~24%) Guidance staff are more encouraging (up by 17%)

2014 Question – what job did you hold prior to teaching, if you had another job?

Professional Development Popularity of Professional Development: workshops decreased online resources increased networking increased computer tutorials increased conferences decreased college courses decreased Q49/48: What professional certificates do you hold? More people getting more diverse teaching certificates (in 2012 it was mostly APC, in 2014 it was more diverse) Q50/Q49: Where are you certified to teach? Business went down by 3% Data processing up 3% Math went up 10%, Tech Ed down 6%

How do the Master Teachers compare?

Questions 1-21 Q8: Classes: more MTs still have Oracle classes, more MTs offer AP CS Q10: More MTs have CS in Math Department Q11/Q12: Less MTs have county requirements & more feel that they are not well enforced Q20: What topics are covered in your classes? /What languages do you teach? Compared to 2014: - MTs care more about Ethics (22%) - MTs care more about Hardware (by 14%) - Security/Game Dev (down 4%) -IT Careers is up (from 23% to 46%) -0% of the MTs teach C++ -Alice/ Scratch more popular with MTs, Java more popular with other 2014 teachers

Q22-Q57 Q24: MTs have less students taking AP CS than general population Q30: most MTs don't use ACM/CSTA but know about it Q53: What are the reasons students don’t take CS classes? MTs are slightly more likely to have over capacity classes MTs are less likely to think greater interest in other classes is a problem MTs are less likely to think male-dominance is a problem MTs attribute it to lack of career knowledge/unaware of CS offerings MTs are more likely to think students don't see value in CS

Professional Elements With regards to Professional development: MTs are less likely to think it's insufficient training but more likely to complain about times offered. MTs also prefer college courses/seminars more than other 2014 teachers What certificates do you hold? Where are you certified to teach? Almost all MTs have APC but are less diverse in other certificates than the rest of 2014 teachers (similar to 2012 teachers). A much larger proportion of MTs are certified in CS than other 2014 teachers and more MTs are certified in Math than other 2014 teachers.

Experience MTs are usually 8-14 years teaching, 2014 general teachers usually have 15+ years. MTs have taught CS their whole career while some 2014 general teachers had switched 50% of MTs have worked in industry, only 30% of regular teachers 0 MTs were DB admins (40% of 2014 teachers) More MTs were software engineers Less were QA analysts