Cohort CS enrollment rates increased substantially, from 8 percent of the 2010-11 cohort to 26 percent of the 2014-15 cohort taking at least one CS course over four years¶

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Currency · newest study 2020 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Cohort enrollment in at least one CS course over four years of high school rose from 8 percent for the 2010-11 cohort to 26 percent for the 2014-15 cohort. → Barrow 2020

Evidence¶

Barrow 2020¶

Barrow, L., Freire, S., & de la Torre, M. (2020). Trends in computer science education: Access, enrollment, and performance in CPS high schools. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Consortium on School Research. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED606832

q3 · i? · associational · r2

Cohort analysis following seven ninth-grade cohorts through four years of high school using CPS transcript data. The report states that "increases in ninth-grade enrollment rates primarily drove the increases at the cohort level."

"Only 8 percent of the 2010–11 cohort took at least one CS course after four years of high school, compared with 26 percent of the 2014–15 cohort."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Student access to CS grew faster than school access because larger high schools were more likely to offer CS, reaching 92 percent of students by 2018 — related
• CS course offerings in CPS high schools more than doubled between 2009 and 2018, with 80 percent of schools offering at least one CS course by 2018 — related