Collaborative Sense-making: Strategies for Co-Researching in a Research-Practice Partnership

Abstract

Within our RPP, we have made a commitment to practice-side partners being co-researchers and supporting data-centered development and implementation of computational thinking pathways. We present seven strategies our research-side team utilized to support collaborative sense-making throughout data collection and analysis. This work counters traditional paradigms of researcher and practitioner roles in research and provides concrete strategies for co-researching and collaborative sense-making to enable practice-side partners to take agency and ownership over data collection, analysis, and sense-making.