University/Organization
¹Instructional Technology
Coastal Carolina University
Conway, South Carolina
¹Instructional Technology
Coastal Carolina University
Conway, South Carolina
²Educational Psychology
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio
³Computing Sciences
Coastal Carolina University
Conway, South Carolina
Title
Enhancing an Accelerated Computer Science Teacher Summer Bootcamp in South Carolina
Synopsis
Computer Science (CS) teachers in a southeastern US state are typically business teachers with little CS background. In this study, we implemented an accelerated, yet comprehensive, summer bootcamp that was completed by 13 teachers who reported considerable CS self-efficacy and domain content knowledge gains. This bootcamp design included updates based on our 2024 pilot, resulting in teachers praising our current program. There, however, remains a high dropout rate, which we need to address.