Workshop: Computing Education Needs Assessment, February 2008 - Washington, DC.

研讨会：计算机教育需求评估，2008 年 2 月 - 华盛顿特区。

• 批准号: 0752030
• 负责人: Lillian Cassel
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Villanova University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-10-01 至 2009-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0752030&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Computing; Education; Needs; Assessment

This workshop is gathering key stakeholders and leaders in computing and information related disciplines to examine the education needs in these areas. Such a gathering is timely given that these critical fields have emerged as essential for the economic and technological health of the United States. The workshop participants are producing a white paper that documents the informed consensus of the computing community on a focused set of priorities and plan of action. The intellectual merit of the project lies in the fact that the computing community is diverse, with roots in several different disciplines and close relationships with many more. Hence the challenges and opportunities for ensuring that the field meets its education needs are complex, both technically and in terms of the coordinated interaction of groups that represent different constituencies with a variety of agendas. The workshop's broader impacts are being felt through its stimulation of collaboration among the diverse academic and practitioner groups within the computing community. In addition, there is a strong emphasis on ensuring representation of communities currently under represented in the computing and information fields, specifically women, blacks, and Hispanics. Moreover, the workshop report is stimulating action to reverse the current decline in the number of students in the computing pipeline.

该研讨会聚集了计算和信息相关学科的主要利益相关者和领导者，以研究这些领域的教育需求。鉴于这些关键领域已成为美国经济和技术健康发展的关键，这样的聚会是及时的。研讨会参与者正在制作一份白皮书，记录计算社区就一组重点优先事项和行动计划达成的知情共识。该项目的智力优势在于计算社区是多元化的，植根于多个不同的学科，并与更多学科有着密切的关系。因此，确保该领域满足其教育需求的挑战和机遇都是复杂的，无论是在技术上还是在代表不同选民和不同议程的团体之间的协调互动方面。该研讨会通过促进计算社区内不同学术和从业者群体之间的合作，产生了更广泛的影响。此外，还非常重视确保目前在计算和信息领域代表性不足的社区的代表性，特别是妇女、黑人和西班牙裔。此外，研讨会报告正在刺激采取行动，以扭转目前计算管道中学生人数下降的趋势。