CPATH-2: Collaborative Research: Incorporating Communication Outcomes into the Computer Science Curriculum

为了在事业上取得成功，计算机科学毕业生除了需要深入的技术知识外，还需要与各种受众进行沟通和合作的能力。为了实现这一目标，重要的是学生在整个课程中都要有计算思维和沟通技能的指导和练习。该项目将通信成果纳入计算机科学课程，将在CPATH早先的两个项目的基础上创建一种变革性的方法，以加强而不是取代他们对技术内容的学习，将通信教学和活动完全整合到整个课程中。该项目的成果将包括：计算机科学和软件工程项目的示范课程和教学大纲，以获取和评估与工业界合作产生的学生的学习成果；全面的支持材料，包括针对该项目确定的学习成果的交流学习活动；在两个学术概况截然不同的机构进行示范和评估；以及传播结果，以提高全国对这一创新方法的认识。该项目将产生指导性概念并传播可供其他机构采用的资源，以满足全国范围内对具有更好沟通能力的CS和SE毕业生的需求，同时保持对技术内容和计算思维的掌握。新课程将作为其他学校类似项目的典范，这些项目的发展将得到一系列研讨会的支持，这些研讨会的合作伙伴来自工业界和学术界。业界的参与将确保我们的毕业生拥有满足他们沟通需求的技能，我们学术合作伙伴的参与将利用他们的专业知识，并鼓励他们采用在该项目期间开发的结果、课程和活动。培养具有有效计算思维和沟通能力的CS和SE学生，将对CS和其他学科从业者之间的互动和沟通产生积极影响，从而提高CS对社会的好处、影响和质量。我们预计，CS和SE的另一个好处可能是，通过明确人与人之间的交流是任何计算职业生涯的重要组成部分，CS和SE将对代表不足的群体变得更具吸引力，尤其是女性。

To be successful in their careers, computer science graduates need, in addition to in-depth technical knowledge, the ability to communicate and collaborate with a variety of audiences. To achieve this goal, it is important that students have instruction and practice in computational thinking and in communication skills throughout their curriculum. This project, Incorporating Communication Outcomes into the Computer Science Curriculum, will build upon two earlier CPATH projects to create a transformative approach to fully integrate communication instruction and activities throughout the curriculum in ways that enhance rather than replace their learning of technical content. The outcomes of this project will include: model curricula and syllabi for computer science and software engineering programs that capture and assess student learning outcomes generated in collaboration with industry; comprehensive support materials, including communications learning activities to address the learning outcomes identified by this project; demonstration and evaluation at two institutions with two very different academic profiles; and dissemination of results to raise nationwide awareness of this innovative approach. This project will generate guiding concepts and disseminate resources that can be adapted by other institutions to meet nationwide needs for CS and SE graduates with better communication abilities while maintaining a mastery of technical content and computational thinking. The new curricula will serve as models for similar programs at other schools, the development of which will be supported by a series of workshops involving partners from industry and academia. The industry involvement will ensure that our graduates have the skills to meet their communication needs and the involvement of our academic partners will both leverage their expertise and encourage their adoption of the outcomes, curricula, and activities developed during this project. Graduating CS and SE students with effective computational thinking and communication skills will positively influence interactions and communications between practitioners in CS and other disciplines and thus enhance the benefits, impact and quality of CS upon society. We expect that an additional benefit may be that CS and SE will become more attractive to underrepresented groups, especially women, by making it clear that communication between people is an essential part of any computing career.