Selected Publications (see my profile at BYU for a link to my full CV)
Bartholomew, S. R., Rich, P. J., Allen, J., Barnum, E., Wright, G., & Shumway, S. (2025). Digital storyboards: the impact of a literacy-themed coding activity on elementary student attitudes for coding. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/15391523.2024.2447731
Peters-Burton, E., Rich., P. J., Kitsantis, A., Stehle, S. M., & Laclede, L. (2023). High school biology teachers’ integration of computational thinking into data practices to support student investigations. Journal of Research in Science Teaching. 60(6), 1353-1384. DOI: 10.1002/tea.21834.
Rich, P. J., Bartholomew, S., Daniel, D., Dinsmoor, K., Nielsen, M., Reynolds, C., Yauney, J. (2022). Trends in tools used to teach computational thinking through elementary coding. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 56(3), 269–290. https://doi.org/10.1080/15391523.2022.2121345
Yauney, J., Bartholomew, S. R., & Rich, P. (2021). A systematic review of “Hour of Code” research. Computer Science Education, 33(4), 512–544. https://doi.org/10.1080/08993408.2021.2022362
Rich, P. J., Mason, S. L., & O’Leary, J. (2021). Measuring the effect of continuous professional development on elementary teachers’ self-efficacy to teach coding and computational thinking. Computers & Education, 168 (July), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2021.104196
Mason, S. L., & Rich, P., J. (2020). Development and analysis of the elementary student coding attitudes survey. Computers & Education. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2020.103898.
Peters-Burton, E. E., Rich, P. J., Cleary, T., Burton, S., Kitsantis, A., Egan, G. & Ellsworth, J. (2020). Using computational thinking for data practices in high school science. The Science Teacher, 87(6), 30-36.
Rich, P. J., Browning, S. F., Perkins, M., Shoop, T., & Yoshikawa, E. (2019). Coding in K-8: International trends in teaching elementary/primary computing. TechTrends 63(3), 311-329. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-018-0295-4