CPATH-2: Advancing the Successful IT Student through Enhanced Computational Thinking (ASSECT)

CPATH奖汇集了五个地区的社区学院和大学，包括马萨诸塞州的邦克山社区学院和马萨诸塞大学波士顿分校，弗吉尼亚州的北弗吉尼亚社区学院和乔治梅森大学，印第安纳州的常春藤科技社区学院和普渡大学，俄克拉何马州的卡梅伦大学和旧金山的城市学院，以及加利福尼亚州的加州州立大学蒙特雷。合作伙伴计划通过新的研究来振兴本科计算教育，该研究将计算思维(CT)与计算机械协会信息技术教育特别兴趣小组开发的新信息技术卷相关联，以开发用于研究和构建教学要素的CT框架。这一产品确定了核心计算概念、方法、框架和工具，这些概念、方法、框架和工具可以应用于各种机构，并在各种环境中为本科生计算的教学和学习提供信息。这五个伙伴关系中的每一个都由一个由一所大学和一所社区学院组成的配对团队组成。这种安排的好处是确保将重点牢牢地放在本科生计算上，并确保该项目的结果和结果发展核心CT技能，以提高入学成绩，并从较低级别的IT和计算机科学课程转移到较高级别的课程。智力价值：这个项目开发了创新的教学场景和相关的评估，特别是为了开发和提高低分计算学生的CT结果。项目合作伙伴将开发教学元素和技术，不仅传授认知知识，而且为学生提供真实的情景，在这种情景中，CT属性可以被开发和演示。为了区分认知知识的获得和CT技能的提高，与治疗组合作的教师将使用探究性原则性评估设计来开发增强的学生评估，该设计产生以证据为中心的评估设计。已经组建了一支优秀的团队来领导这个项目，该项目有可能产生新的学科基础，并成为未来计算的典范。广泛的影响：在明确将低级部门和社区大学的IT课程纳入计算思维框架方面，这项提议具有开创性的意义。该项目将向广泛的受众传播，涵盖本科生计算机教育的范围，并扩大参与组织。每个区域合作伙伴都有额外的区域传播重点，该小组对通过这项工作中调查的教学方法获得的结果在全国传播特别感兴趣，特别是因为他们可能会告知其他有兴趣提高入学成绩和从较低级别的IT课程转移到较高级别的信息技术课程的其他人。因此，该项目的模型和结果有可能接触到具有不同学生人口的不同机构，从而为计算机专业学生为未来的劳动力做好准备提供了途径。

This CPATH award brings together community colleges and universities in five regions including Bunker Hill Community College and University of Massachusetts Boston in Massachusetts, Northern Virginia Community College and George Mason University in Virginia, Ivy Tech Community College and Purdue University in Indiana, Cameron University in Oklahoma and City College of San Francisco and California State - Monterrey in California. The partners plan to revitalize undergraduate computing education through new research that correlates Computational Thinking (CT) with the new Information Technology Volume developed by the Special Interest Group for Information Technology Education of the Association for Computing Machinery to develop a CT framework for researching and building instructional elements. This resulting product identifies core computing concepts, methodologies, frameworks, and tools that may be applied across a variety of institutions and inform teaching and learning in undergraduate computing in a variety of environments. Each of the five partnerships consists of a paired team comprised of a university and a community college. The benefit of this arrangement is to ensure the focus is firmly set on undergraduate computing and that the outcomes and findings of this project develop core CT skills that improve matriculation and transfer from lower to upper division IT and computer science programs. Intellectual Merit: This project develops innovative instructional scenarios and related assessments specifically aligned to develop and enhance CT outcomes for lower division computing students. The project partners will develop instructional elements and techniques that not only impart cognitive knowledge but that also pose authentic situations for students wherein CT attributes can be developed and demonstrated. In order to differentiate between cognitive knowledge gains and improvement in CT skills, faculty working with the treatment groups will develop enhanced student assessments using Principled Assessment Design for Inquiry which produces evidence-centered assessment design. An excellent team has been assembled to lead this project which has the potential to produce new disciplinary foundations and serve as a model for computing for the future.Broader Impacts: In explicitly including lower division and community college IT courses in computational thinking frameworks, this proposal breaks new ground. The project is to be disseminated to a broad audience covering the spectrum of undergraduate computing education and broadening participation organization. Each regional partner has additional regional dissemination foci, and the team is particularly interested in national dissemination of the results obtained through the pedagogical approaches investigated in this work, particularly as they may inform others with an interest in improving matriculation and transfer from lower to upper division IT programs. The models and results from the project thus have the potential to reach a diverse set of institutions with different student populations and thus provide pathways for preparing computing students for the workforce of the future.