Peter Rich
Biographic Data
| ID | 3939405 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Rich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Rich |
| SIGNATURE | RICH P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brigham Young University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0039-966X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Teacher Perspectives of Student Engagement in Data Practice Instruction: Two Classroom Conditions
This study examines high school science teachers' perceptions of student engagement in data practices across two instructional contexts: a scaffolded, student‐centered environment using the Science Practices Innovation Notebook (SPIN) and a business‐as‐usual (BAU) teacher‐led investigation. Data practices—creating, collecting, preparing, visualizing, and analyzing data—are foundational to scientific inquiry and central to science education standa…
Development and validation of the parental influences on kids in computer science (PIK-CS) scale
While there are many studies promoting that children and their teachers learn to code, little is known about parents’ perceptions of coding being taught to children. In this study, we developed a research-grounded scale with 39 questions across five potential parental influences on children learning to code grounded in existing literature. We administered the scale with 300 parents whose children were participating in elementary schools where cod…
Digital storyboards: The impact of a literacy-themed coding activity on elementary student attitudes for coding
With the growing importance around coding in education, we designed an integrated unit called “digital storyboards.” Students engaged with literacy, engineering, and computational thinking across this 10-week unit. Using mixed methods, we measured 330 fourth-grade students’ attitudes toward coding and computational thinking learning using the Elementary Student Coding Attitude Survey and student interviews. Findings revealed statistical significa…
Maybe we’ve got it wrong. An experimental evaluation of self-determination and Flow Theory in gamification
Research has repeatedly demonstrated that educational gamification can improve academic outcomes. However, a well-defined theoretical explanation for gamification’s positive effects has yet to be validated. Two theories are frequently cited as potential theoretical explanations for gamification: Self-determination Theory (SDT) and Flow Theory. In this study, we compare students’ academic outcomes with measures of SDT and Flow Theory in both gamif…
Book Reviewers for Volume 130
Trends in tools used to teach computational thinking through elementary coding
In this study, we attempted to curate a list of tools whose primary intent is to enable and teach children to code. From this list, we developed a framework for the classification of coding tools and reviewed current research to determine how tools are used to teach coding in elementary education. The catalog grew to over 300 specific tools intended to teach coding to children. We subsequently searched Google Scholar for studies of computational …
High school biology teachers’ integration of computational thinking into data practices to support student investigations
In the United States, the Next Generation Science Standards advocate for the integration of computational thinking (CT) as a science and engineering practice. Additionally, there is agreement among some educational researchers that increasing opportunities for engaging in computational thinking can lend authenticity to classroom activities. This can be done through introducing CT principles, such as algorithms, abstractions, and automations, or t…
Neighborhood-School Structures: A New Approach to the Joint Study of Social Contexts
Robust literatures separately estimate school effects and neighborhood effects on children's educational, economic, health, and other outcomes that measure well-being. A growing body of research acknowledges that both contexts matter and considers neighborhoods and schools jointly. In this review, we synthesize the array of results that emerge from these studies and critique the tendency for researchers to evaluate which matters more, neighborhoo…
Measuring teacher beliefs about coding and computational thinking
This study sought to identify factors that affect teachers’ beliefs about teaching computing in their classrooms. By reviewing existing scales and research on computing, we created the Teacher Beliefs about Coding and Computational Thinking (TBaCCT) scale. Through confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling we validated the scale with data from 245 elementary teachers from eight U.S. school districts who participated in computin…
Measuring the effect of continuous professional development on elementary teachers’ self-efficacy to teach coding and computational thinking
Expecting the Unexpected: A Collaborative Autoethnography of Instructors’ Experiences Teaching Advanced Instructional Design
Segregated Neighborhoods, Segregated Schools: Do Charters Break a Stubborn Link
Residential and school segregation have historically mirrored each other, with school segregation seen as simply reflecting residential patterns given neighborhood-based school assignment policy. We argue that the relationship is circular, such that school options also influence residential outcomes. We hypothesize that the expansion of charter schools could simultaneously lead to an increase in school segregation and a decrease in residential se…
Development and analysis of the Elementary Student Coding Attitudes Survey
It’s So Wonderful Having Different Majors Working Together”: The Development of an Interdisciplinary Design Thinking Minor
Coding in K-8: International Trends in Teaching Elementary/Primary Computing
The Perceived Value of Informal, Peer Critique in the Instructional Design Studio
Declining Racial Stratification in Marriage Choices? Trends in Black/White Status Exchange in the United States, 1980 to 2010
The status exchange hypothesis suggests that partners in black/white marriages in the United States trade racial for educational status, indicating strong hierarchical barriers between racial groups. The authors examine trends in status exchange in black/white marriages and cohabitations between 1980 and 2010, a period during which these unions increased from 0.3 percent to 1.5 percent of all young couples. The authors find that status exchange b…
Benefits, challenges, and perceptions of the multiple article dissertation format in instructional technology
This study used survey data to investigate the benefits, challenges, perceptions, and current practices of the multiple article dissertation format in instructional technology. Online surveys were sent to current students, alumni, faculty, and department representatives of instructional technology programs, and data were analysed using qualitative and quantitative methods. The surveys found that alumni who completed multiple article format disser…
Effect of neighborhood stigma on economic transactions
Significance Although previously theorized, virtually no rigorous empirical evidence has demonstrated an impact of neighborhood stigma on individual outcomes. To test for the effects of neighborhood stigma on economic transactions, an experimental audit of an online classified market was conducted in 2013–2014. In this market, advertisements were placed for used iPhones in which the neighborhood of the seller was randomly manipulated. Advertiseme…
Inside the Black Box: Revealing the Process in Applying a Grounded Theory Analysis
Qualitative research methods have long set an example of rich description, in which data and researchers’ hermeneutics work together to inform readers of findings in specific contexts. Among published works, insight into the analytical process is most often represented in the form of methodological propositions or research results. This paper presents a third type of qualitative report, one in which the researcher’s process of coding, finding the…
Using video to analyze one's own teaching
Recently, interest in using video to facilitate teacher reflection has increased. Despite this increase, the frameworks employed to help teachers use video to reflect on their teaching are not based on the results of prior video analysis research. There is a need to better understand how and in what ways video has been used to reflect on one's own teaching. The purpose of this paper is to review past studies in order to help educators make more i…
The influence of video analysis on the process of teacher change
Ten Essential Questions Educators Should Ask When Using Video Annotation Tools
Video Annotation Tools: Technologies to Scaffold, Structure, and Transform Teacher Reflection
While video has long been used to capture microteaching episodes, illustrate classroom cases and practices, and to review teaching practices, recent developments in video annotation tools may help to extend and augment teacher self-reflection. Such tools make possible the documentation and support self-analysis using verifiable evidence as well as to examine changes in development over time. Video annotation tools offer the potential to support b…
Capturing and assessing evidence of student teacher inquiry: A case study
The influence of video analysis on the process of teacher change
Segregated Neighborhoods, Segregated Schools: Do Charters Break a Stubborn Link
Residential and school segregation have historically mirrored each other, with school segregation seen as simply reflecting residential patterns given neighborhood-based school assignment policy. We argue that the relationship is circular, such that school options also influence residential outcomes. We hypothesize that the expansion of charter schools could simultaneously lead to an increase in school segregation and a decrease in residential se…
Declining Racial Stratification in Marriage Choices? Trends in Black/White Status Exchange in the United States, 1980 to 2010
The status exchange hypothesis suggests that partners in black/white marriages in the United States trade racial for educational status, indicating strong hierarchical barriers between racial groups. The authors examine trends in status exchange in black/white marriages and cohabitations between 1980 and 2010, a period during which these unions increased from 0.3 percent to 1.5 percent of all young couples. The authors find that status exchange b…
Neighborhood-School Structures: A New Approach to the Joint Study of Social Contexts
Robust literatures separately estimate school effects and neighborhood effects on children's educational, economic, health, and other outcomes that measure well-being. A growing body of research acknowledges that both contexts matter and considers neighborhoods and schools jointly. In this review, we synthesize the array of results that emerge from these studies and critique the tendency for researchers to evaluate which matters more, neighborhoo…
Video Annotation Tools: Technologies to Scaffold, Structure, and Transform Teacher Reflection
While video has long been used to capture microteaching episodes, illustrate classroom cases and practices, and to review teaching practices, recent developments in video annotation tools may help to extend and augment teacher self-reflection. Such tools make possible the documentation and support self-analysis using verifiable evidence as well as to examine changes in development over time. Video annotation tools offer the potential to support b…
The Perceived Value of Informal, Peer Critique in the Instructional Design Studio
Capturing and assessing evidence of student teacher inquiry: A case study
Coding in K-8: International Trends in Teaching Elementary/Primary Computing
Inside the Black Box: Revealing the Process in Applying a Grounded Theory Analysis
Qualitative research methods have long set an example of rich description, in which data and researchers’ hermeneutics work together to inform readers of findings in specific contexts. Among published works, insight into the analytical process is most often represented in the form of methodological propositions or research results. This paper presents a third type of qualitative report, one in which the researcher’s process of coding, finding the…
A Comparison of South‐East Asian and Australian First‐Year Students' Views on University
A questionnaire study was carried out with Asian and Australian university entrants in order to ascertain their differential attitudes as to the purposes of an ideal university, and their expectations as to the milieu of an actual university. The implications of the significant culturally based differences between the two groups are discussed in terms of relative value systems, culture‐shock effects, and the ramifications for both academic policy…
Capturing and assessing evidence of student teacher inquiry: A case study
Video Annotation Tools: Technologies to Scaffold, Structure, and Transform Teacher Reflection
While video has long been used to capture microteaching episodes, illustrate classroom cases and practices, and to review teaching practices, recent developments in video annotation tools may help to extend and augment teacher self-reflection. Such tools make possible the documentation and support self-analysis using verifiable evidence as well as to examine changes in development over time. Video annotation tools offer the potential to support b…
Ten Essential Questions Educators Should Ask When Using Video Annotation Tools
Using video to analyze one's own teaching
Recently, interest in using video to facilitate teacher reflection has increased. Despite this increase, the frameworks employed to help teachers use video to reflect on their teaching are not based on the results of prior video analysis research. There is a need to better understand how and in what ways video has been used to reflect on one's own teaching. The purpose of this paper is to review past studies in order to help educators make more i…
The influence of video analysis on the process of teacher change
Effect of neighborhood stigma on economic transactions
Significance Although previously theorized, virtually no rigorous empirical evidence has demonstrated an impact of neighborhood stigma on individual outcomes. To test for the effects of neighborhood stigma on economic transactions, an experimental audit of an online classified market was conducted in 2013–2014. In this market, advertisements were placed for used iPhones in which the neighborhood of the seller was randomly manipulated. Advertiseme…
Inside the Black Box: Revealing the Process in Applying a Grounded Theory Analysis
Qualitative research methods have long set an example of rich description, in which data and researchers’ hermeneutics work together to inform readers of findings in specific contexts. Among published works, insight into the analytical process is most often represented in the form of methodological propositions or research results. This paper presents a third type of qualitative report, one in which the researcher’s process of coding, finding the…
Benefits, challenges, and perceptions of the multiple article dissertation format in instructional technology
This study used survey data to investigate the benefits, challenges, perceptions, and current practices of the multiple article dissertation format in instructional technology. Online surveys were sent to current students, alumni, faculty, and department representatives of instructional technology programs, and data were analysed using qualitative and quantitative methods. The surveys found that alumni who completed multiple article format disser…
Declining Racial Stratification in Marriage Choices? Trends in Black/White Status Exchange in the United States, 1980 to 2010
The status exchange hypothesis suggests that partners in black/white marriages in the United States trade racial for educational status, indicating strong hierarchical barriers between racial groups. The authors examine trends in status exchange in black/white marriages and cohabitations between 1980 and 2010, a period during which these unions increased from 0.3 percent to 1.5 percent of all young couples. The authors find that status exchange b…
It’s So Wonderful Having Different Majors Working Together”: The Development of an Interdisciplinary Design Thinking Minor
Coding in K-8: International Trends in Teaching Elementary/Primary Computing
The Perceived Value of Informal, Peer Critique in the Instructional Design Studio
Development and analysis of the Elementary Student Coding Attitudes Survey
Measuring teacher beliefs about coding and computational thinking
This study sought to identify factors that affect teachers’ beliefs about teaching computing in their classrooms. By reviewing existing scales and research on computing, we created the Teacher Beliefs about Coding and Computational Thinking (TBaCCT) scale. Through confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling we validated the scale with data from 245 elementary teachers from eight U.S. school districts who participated in computin…
Measuring the effect of continuous professional development on elementary teachers’ self-efficacy to teach coding and computational thinking
Expecting the Unexpected: A Collaborative Autoethnography of Instructors’ Experiences Teaching Advanced Instructional Design
Segregated Neighborhoods, Segregated Schools: Do Charters Break a Stubborn Link
Residential and school segregation have historically mirrored each other, with school segregation seen as simply reflecting residential patterns given neighborhood-based school assignment policy. We argue that the relationship is circular, such that school options also influence residential outcomes. We hypothesize that the expansion of charter schools could simultaneously lead to an increase in school segregation and a decrease in residential se…
High school biology teachers’ integration of computational thinking into data practices to support student investigations
In the United States, the Next Generation Science Standards advocate for the integration of computational thinking (CT) as a science and engineering practice. Additionally, there is agreement among some educational researchers that increasing opportunities for engaging in computational thinking can lend authenticity to classroom activities. This can be done through introducing CT principles, such as algorithms, abstractions, and automations, or t…
Neighborhood-School Structures: A New Approach to the Joint Study of Social Contexts
Robust literatures separately estimate school effects and neighborhood effects on children's educational, economic, health, and other outcomes that measure well-being. A growing body of research acknowledges that both contexts matter and considers neighborhoods and schools jointly. In this review, we synthesize the array of results that emerge from these studies and critique the tendency for researchers to evaluate which matters more, neighborhoo…
Trends in tools used to teach computational thinking through elementary coding
In this study, we attempted to curate a list of tools whose primary intent is to enable and teach children to code. From this list, we developed a framework for the classification of coding tools and reviewed current research to determine how tools are used to teach coding in elementary education. The catalog grew to over 300 specific tools intended to teach coding to children. We subsequently searched Google Scholar for studies of computational …
Maybe we’ve got it wrong. An experimental evaluation of self-determination and Flow Theory in gamification
Research has repeatedly demonstrated that educational gamification can improve academic outcomes. However, a well-defined theoretical explanation for gamification’s positive effects has yet to be validated. Two theories are frequently cited as potential theoretical explanations for gamification: Self-determination Theory (SDT) and Flow Theory. In this study, we compare students’ academic outcomes with measures of SDT and Flow Theory in both gamif…
Book Reviewers for Volume 130
Teacher Perspectives of Student Engagement in Data Practice Instruction: Two Classroom Conditions
This study examines high school science teachers' perceptions of student engagement in data practices across two instructional contexts: a scaffolded, student‐centered environment using the Science Practices Innovation Notebook (SPIN) and a business‐as‐usual (BAU) teacher‐led investigation. Data practices—creating, collecting, preparing, visualizing, and analyzing data—are foundational to scientific inquiry and central to science education standa…
Development and validation of the parental influences on kids in computer science (PIK-CS) scale
While there are many studies promoting that children and their teachers learn to code, little is known about parents’ perceptions of coding being taught to children. In this study, we developed a research-grounded scale with 39 questions across five potential parental influences on children learning to code grounded in existing literature. We administered the scale with 300 parents whose children were participating in elementary schools where cod…
Psychology (22 works) · Computer Science (16 works) · Mathematics education (15 works) · Pedagogy (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Educational technology (7 works) · Multimedia (7 works) · Teaching and Learning Programming (6 works) · Computational Thinking (4 works) · Economics (4 works)