Leveraging Collective Impact to Promote Systemic Change in CS Education
Leveraging Collective Impact to Promote Systemic Change in CS Education
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利用集体影响力促进计算机科学教育的系统性变革
DOI：
10.1145/3408877.3432540
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发表时间：
2021
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Richardson, Debra
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作者：
Fletcher, Carol L.;Dunton, Sarah T.;Torbey, Ryan;Goodhue, John;Biggers, Maureen;Childs, Joshua;DeLyser, Leigh Ann;Leftwich, Anne;Richardson, Debra
集体影响是一种大规模解决复杂社会问题的方法。扩大计算机参与（BPC）的挑战就是这样一个问题。公共教育的分散性使BPC的复杂性更加复杂，因为公共教育的决策主要是在州一级做出的，并受地区一级的解释所制约。因此，在全国范围内实现计算机科学（CS）途径的多样化需要一种系统的方法，例如集体影响，以吸引所有影响CS教育的利益相关者，他们的决定可能促进或阻碍BPC的努力。本经验报告讨论了如何使用集体影响框架来推进扩展计算教育途径（ECEP）联盟的工作，这是一个由NSF资助的BPC联盟，专注于将州和州政策作为变革单元。我们讨论了集体影响的五个基本特征（共同议程、共同测量、相互加强的活动、持续沟通和骨干支持）如何结合起来促进ECEP的变革理论。该报告强调了ECEP国家为促进BPC而采取的具体政策变化，非等级领导模式导致的责任翻转，以及衡量作为BPC中介的系统性变化所面临的挑战。
Collective impact is an approach for solving complex social problems at scale. The challenge of broadening participation in computing (BPC) is one such problem. The complexity of BPC is compounded by the decentralized nature of public education, where decisions are made primarily at the state level and subject to interpretation at the district level. As such, diversifying computer science (CS) pathways across the nation requires a systemic approach such as collective impact to engage all of the stakeholders who influence CS education and whose decisions can either facilitate or hinder BPC efforts. This experience report discusses how the collective impact framework has been used to advance the work of the Expanding Computing Education Pathways (ECEP) Alliance, an NSF funded BPC Alliance focused on states and state policy as the unit of change. We discuss how the five essential features of collective impact (common agenda, shared measurement, mutually reinforcing activities, continuous communication, and backbone support) coalesce to facilitate ECEP's theory of change. The report highlights specific policy changes that ECEP states have addressed to promote BPC, the flipped accountability that results from a non-hierarchical leadership model, and the challenges of measuring systemic changes as an intermediary to BPC.