{"id":4251,"date":"2023-10-29T16:31:27","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T16:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/education\/?p=4251"},"modified":"2025-05-04T09:40:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T08:40:16","slug":"subject-choice-attainment-and-representation-in-scari-computing-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/education\/2023\/10\/29\/subject-choice-attainment-and-representation-in-scari-computing-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Computing for All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3><strong>What is the project about?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The\u00a0Subject Choice, Attainment and Representation in (SCARI) Computing project aims\u00a0to find out the factors that relate to better uptake and attainment in computing amongst students from all backgrounds in English secondary schools. Knowledge and use of computer science\/computing can open doors for young people in terms of jobs and future opportunity. However, research into computing education has shown that some groups of students, such as girls, are poorly represented in computer science qualifications, especially the recently revamped Computer Science GCSE (<a href=\"https:\/\/dlnext.acm.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1145\/3366016\">Kemp, Wong &amp; Berry, 2019<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The SCARI Computing project will use the\u00a0National Pupil Dataset\u00a0and\u00a0School Workforce Census, alongside school case studies through\u00a0quantitative\u00a0and\u00a0qualitative data\u00a0collected from school managers, students and documents such as schemes of work. The project aims to generate evidence to inform policies and practices that can address the underperformance and uptake of girls and other underrepresented groups in secondary school level computing. The project will provide important new data and understandings into the current unequal patterns of attainment and participation in GCSE Computer Science (CS) and general computing provision in secondary schools.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Who is running the project?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The project is led by Dr Peter Kemp at King\u2019s College London and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/education\/staff\/billy-wong\">Professor Billy Wong<\/a> at the University of Reading.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Who is funding the project?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>This project is funded by the Nuffield Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project Timeline: Jan 2021 \u2013 July 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Find out more<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scaricomp.org\/\">Project website<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nuffieldfoundation.org\/project\/exploring-female-participation-computer-science-english-schools\">The Nuffield Foundation project page<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Determining the factors that relate to better uptake and attainment in computing amongst students from all backgrounds in English secondary schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":4607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Computing for All &#183; 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