Krishna Kaipa
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3
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6
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About
Krishna Kaipa is an emerging researcher whose work sits at the intersection of STEM education, robotics, and teacher preparation. Kaipa's scholarship focuses on equipping preservice teachers (PSTs) with the computational thinking, coding, and engineering skills necessary to meet nationwide K-6 curriculum mandates — areas where many future educators remain critically underprepared. Among Kaipa's most notable contributions is participation in an NSF-funded interdisciplinary program that bridges education and engineering by pairing preservice teachers with undergraduate engineering students to co-teach robotics to elementary schoolchildren. This innovative model has been examined across multiple contexts, including a compelling adaptation during the COVID-19 pandemic, where the program was successfully transitioned to virtual delivery via Zoom — demonstrating the resilience and flexibility of collaborative STEM learning frameworks even amid crisis. Kaipa's more recent work investigates how contextual factors shape PSTs' self-efficacy for teaching engineering and coding, offering valuable insights for teacher educators designing meaningful preparation experiences. Each of Kaipa's papers has garnered citations within a competitive and rapidly growing field, reflecting timely contributions to a critical national conversation about who teaches computer science — and how they are prepared to do so.
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