100P: A Guided Discovery Curriculum for Computer Science

该提案提出了100P，一个创新的引导发现课程。在100P项目中，学生从课堂中解放出来；相反，学生们在整个本科生涯中都要解决100个与概念和研究相关的问题。这100个问题引导学生发现学位课程毕业生所需的基本知识和技能。每个学生都可以自由地创造个性化的学习和发现模式。课程培养学生的深度学习，挑战学生的智力成长。100P计划鼓励学生成为灵活的学习者，他们可以根据需要利用大量资源；成为有弹性的学习者，他们明白进步可以来自失败；成为终身学习者，他们接受更好的培训，迎接全球化的挑战。课堂结构被一种新的结构所取代：九道题和一次口试。这种结构在学生的整个职业生涯中不断重复。因此，100P不仅是一门严格的课程，也是一门关怀课程，强调教师和同伴的指导。智力优势：100P为获得学士学位提供了另一种范例。新课程整合了教育研究中的一些最好的想法，以建立一个促进以学生为中心的学习的教育环境，允许早期沉浸在学科和本科研究中，培养敏捷、足智多谋和适应力强的学习者。该计划的发展不仅提供了创新的教育计划和技术，以提高学生的成功，而且还提供了对CS学习多样性和教学的见解。更广泛的影响：该提案为CS和其他STEM学科的学生教育提供了一个新的范例。100P鼓励学生比常规的课堂形式更容易地发挥他们的潜力。100P计划帮助所有学生追求卓越，在一个支持性的环境中变得更加自我激励和自信。该项目传播由计算机科学教育领域的专家审查过的材料。这些材料、100P计划的政策和程序、专业课程的详细概念指南、制度化计划和100P计划的评估工具，有助于其他部门采用100P。100P还具有潜在的经济影响，因为它满足了《2020年工程师》中提出的受过广泛教育的工程师的愿望。

Computer Science (31)The proposal presents 100P, an innovative guided discovery curriculum. In the 100P program, students are freed from the classroom; students instead work on 100 concept- and research-related problems throughout their undergraduate careers. The 100 problems guide the students to discover the fundamental knowledge and skills required of a graduate of the degree program. Each student is free to create an individualized mode of learning and discovery. The curriculum fosters deep learning among students and challenges students' intellectual growth. The 100P program encourages students to be agile learners who can draw on a number of resources as needed, to be resilient learners who understand that progress can come from failure, and to be lifelong learners who are better trained for the challenges of globalization. The structure of the classroom is replaced by a new structure: nine problems and an oral exam. This structure repeats throughout a student's career. So not only is 100P a rigorous curriculum, it is a caring curriculum with its emphasis on both faculty and peer mentoring. Intellectual Merit: 100P provides an alternate paradigm for obtaining a baccalaureate degree. The new curriculum integrates some of the best ideas from educational research in building an educational environment that promotes student-centered learning, allows for early immersion into both the discipline and undergraduate research, and yields agile, resourceful, and resilient learners. The development of the program not only provides an innovative education program and techniques to enhance student success, but also insights into learning diversity and teaching in CS.Broader Impact: This proposal offers a new paradigm for educating students in CS and, potentially, other STEM disciplines. 100P encourages students to reach their potential more readily than the regular classroom format. The 100P program helps all students strive for excellence and become more self-motivated and self-confident while in a supportive environment. The project disseminates materials that have been vetted by experts in the fields of CS education. These materials, the policies and procedures for the 100P program, detailed concept guides for the major courses, an institutionalization plan, and an assessment instrument for the 100P program facilitate the adoption of 100P by other departments. 100P also has potential economic impact in that it addresses the aspiration of a broadly educated engineer set forth in The Engineer of 2020.