A Program to Enhance Faculty Development Through Outreach and Participation in Regional Computer Science Education Conferences

通过推广和参与地区计算机科学教育会议来加强教师发展的计划

• 批准号: 9653407
• 负责人: Margaret Reek
• 金额: $ 3.68万
• 依托单位: Association Computing Machinery
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-03-15 至 2001-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9653407&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Program; Enhance; Faculty; Development; Through

This project is a cooperative effort between the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) and the Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges (CCSC) to provide outreach services to Computer Science faculty in various regions of the United States. These two cooperating organizations share a primary priorities of improving faculty teaching skills, increasing awareness and knowledge of current issues in computer science education, and providing opportunities for faculty to share ideas. SIGCSE conducts a very well-known and highly successful annual technical symposium; but the organization has no appreciable regional presence. CCSC, on the other hand, has been providing very successful regional conferences for over a decade; but conducts no national conference. The two organizations are, therefore, quite complementary. In an era of reduced or nonexistent travel budgets, especially for faculty in undergraduate institutions throughout the country, this project seeks to involve these faculty in many of the most current and relevant national CS education issues and concepts. The two-year project is to offer SIGCSE Technical Symposium workshops at each of the six regional CCSC conferences each year. This will allow more faculty to take advantage of the high-quality workshops from the national Symposium, but within the context of a less expensive regional conference, closer to home. The effectiveness of the project will be ascertained by two separate evaluations from participants: one immediately following the workshops, and one six months later in order to determine impact on courses, curricula, and professional development in CS education. It is noteworthy that due to the success of earlier federally sponsored outreach activities, the SIGCSE Board has decided voted to allocate up to 25% of its annual budget surplus to fund these export/outreach activities to regions (though not limited specifically to CCSC conferences). Thus we have a sort of "matching" funds to repo rt as part of the present application.

该项目是ACM计算机科学教育特别兴趣小组(SIGCSE)和小型学院计算联盟(CCSC)之间的合作努力，旨在为美国不同地区的计算机科学教师提供外展服务。这两个合作组织共同的首要任务是提高教师的教学技能，提高对当前计算机科学教育问题的认识和知识，并为教师提供分享想法的机会。SIGCSE举办了一次非常著名和非常成功的年度技术研讨会；但该组织没有明显的区域存在。另一方面，十多年来，CCSC一直非常成功地提供区域会议；但没有举办全国性会议。因此，这两个组织具有很强的互补性。在一个差旅预算减少或根本不存在的时代，特别是全国各地本科院校的教职员工，这个项目试图让这些教职员工参与许多最新和最相关的国家CS教育问题和概念。这个为期两年的项目是每年在CCSC的六次区域会议上提供SIGCSE技术专题讨论会。这将允许更多的教职员工利用全国研讨会的高质量研讨会，但在离家更近的较便宜的地区性会议的背景下。该项目的成效将通过参与者的两次单独评估来确定：一次是在讲习班结束后立即进行的，另一次是在六个月后进行的，以确定对计算机科学教育的课程、课程和专业发展的影响。值得注意的是，由于早先联邦赞助的外展活动取得了成功，SIGCSE理事会已投票决定从其年度预算盈余中划拨至多25%的资金，用于资助向各地区的这些出口/外展活动(但不限于CCSC会议)。因此，作为本申请的一部分，我们有一种“匹配”资金来回购RT。