The JETT Project is a multi-partner professional development and community building initiative involving CSTA, the College Board, HS educators, university faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students (from ACM's Student Chapters). Starting in the Spring of 2003, pilot JETT Workshops were help at six universities. The project has now grown to include universities across the nation. For more information on past and future JETT workshops, please visit the JETT website.

Highlights of the K-12 JETT Project Needs Assessment:

1) Most secondary CS teachers are knowledgeable and feel comfortable teaching the following CS modules:

Primitive Data Types (85.9%)
Basic Programming Constructs (84.2%)
One-dimensional Arrays (74.6%)
Subprograms (72.3%)

Secondary CS teachers are knowledgeable but feel slightly less comfortable teaching:

Simple Output (69.1%)
Strings (66.2%)
Two-dimensional Arrays (65.6%)

Secondary CS teachers know these modules the least and only a small percentage feel comfortable teaching it:

O-O design (7.1%)
Advanced O-O concepts (10.6%)
Exceptions (11.6%)
Data structures (10.6%)
Class variables and methods (22.5%)
Intro to object-oriented programming in Java (30.9%)
Input using a console class (36.%)

The modules directly dealing with OO concepts and Java are much less known!

2) In terms of the preferred workshop timeframes:

1st Choice - Saturday, 9am to 2pm
2nd Choice - Weekday, 7pm to 10pm

3) However, in terms of desired materials from workshops:

1st choice - online materials, 94%
2nd choice - question and answer period, 93%
3rd choice - materials and workshop video on CD, 75%
4th choice - listserv of participants, 72%
5th choice - materials and workshop video online, 57%