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Coding as Another Language (CAL) Curriculum: Teaching Coding to Kindergarteners and Early Elementary Students

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Intervention Details

Subjects

Science & STEM, English Language Arts

Academic Program

Early Childhood

Duration

12 weeks

Grades

K, 1, 2

Personnel

General Education Teacher, Coach

Intervention Summary

Coding as Another Language (CAL) curriculum

Statistical Finding Summary

No effect on computational thinking

Positive effect on coding skills

No effect on literacy performance

Source

Bers, M., Dubash, P., Hagan, C., Moore Shaffer, P. & Yang, Z. (2023). Impact Study of the Coding as Another Language Curriculum (ED626865). ERIC. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED626865.pdf.

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The subgroup population data as studied here are not available. That means that while this study may work well for your setting, we cannot say based on the published study and results from our system’s reading of that study what the school/district subgroup characteristics were when evaluated here.