Student Engagement is Key to Broadening Participation in CS
Student Engagement is Key to Broadening Participation in CS
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学生参与是扩大计算机科学参与的关键
DOI：
10.1145/3287324.3287438
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发表时间：
2019
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通讯作者：
J. Rosato
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作者：
Beryl Hoffman;R. Morelli;J. Rosato
移动CS原理（移动CSP）课程是美国国家科学基金会支持的，大学理事会认可的新计算机科学原理AP课程之一。自2013年以来，移动CSP项目已经培训了700多名教师，并为美国各地的2万多名学生提供了课程。Mobile CSP课程背后的组织理念是，学生在课堂上的参与是让学生，特别是那些传统上在CS中代表性不足的学生，对继续在CS领域学习和职业感兴趣的关键。吸引移动CSP学生的主要策略是：(1)在整个课程中关注移动计算，利用当前学生对智能手机的兴趣；(2)强调让学生从第一天起就利用易于使用的App Inventor编程语言构建移动应用程序；(3)强调建立创造性的、“对社会有用的”应用程序，让学生思考计算如何帮助他们的社区。在本文中，我们提出并总结了两年来各种类型的数据（即学生调查，教师调查，客观评估以及学生和教师的轶事报告），以支持这样的假设，即在移动CSP课程中实践的那种参与不仅有助于扩大难以接触到的人口统计学中的CS参与，而且还为他们提供了计算机科学原理和实践的坚实基础。
The Mobile CS Principles (Mobile CSP) course is one of the NSF-supported, College Board-endorsed curricula for the new Computer Science Principles AP course. Since 2013, the Mobile CSP project has trained more than 700 teachers, and the course has been offered to more than 20,000 students throughout the United States. The organizing philosophy behind the Mobile CSP course is that student engagement in the classroom is the key to getting students, especially those traditionally underrepresented in CS, interested in pursuing further study and careers in CS. The main strategies used to engage Mobile CSP students are: (1) a focus on mobile computing throughout the course, taking advantage of current student interest in smartphones; (2) an emphasis on getting students building mobile apps from day one, by utilizing the highly accessible App Inventor programming language; and (3) an emphasis on building creative, 'socially useful' apps to get students thinking about ways that computing can help their communities. In this paper we present and summarize two years of data of various types (i.e., student surveys, teacher surveys, objective assessments, and anecdotal reports from students and teachers) to support the hypothesis that engagement of the sort practiced in the Mobile CSP course not only helps broaden participation in CS among hard-to-reach demographics, but also provides them with a solid grounding in computer science principles and practices.