Unfortunately, the initial answer to the question asked above – at least according to the Royal Society’s report After the reboot (2017) – is “not much”.
The report states: “Our literature reviews show that a majority of the research in computing education relates to higher education and the volume of education research in computing is much smaller than in subjects such as physics or mathematics.”
The systematic review of over 2,000 computing education papers internationally from 2005 to 2014 revealed that most of the research was from the USA, with 1,231 papers, while the UK had only produced 128 during this period. Within this review, the majority of school-level research was from the USA with 170 papers, while the UK only produced 24.
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