Development of Collaborative Computational Thinking (Colla-CT) Inventory for General Education and Teacher Education Courses

Computing-Others（35）本项目通过教授计算思维（CT），弥合计算机科学（CS）和自然科学之间的界限，以及高等教育机构和K-12之间的差距。最近对CT作为“每个人的基本技能”的关注正在将计算课程的重点从编程转移到设计和应用，从而将科学思维带入主流教育。它正在制作一个CT模块和评估工具的清单，这些模块和评估工具正在开发中，用于新的本科课程，包括通识教育入门CT课程和针对教师候选人和STEM -科学，技术，工程和数学专业的高级计算科学思维课程。这些课程使用可扩展的游戏设计。通过从游戏设计到模拟的过程，学生们可以学习到计算机科学概念、计算问题解决、数学建模、通过模拟和可视化分析系统演化以及应用实验等多种技能。计算科学作为教学方法和劳动力战略为国家服务。 在教学方面，该项目刺激了本科教育的系统性变化，反映了计算成为科学中必不可少的和永久的元素。 该项目正在向一个 广泛的本科生观众（CS非CS专业），包括教师候选人。

Computing-others (35) This project bridges the boundaries between computer science (CS) and natural sciences, as well as the gap between institutions of higher education and K-12 by teaching Computational Thinking (CT). Recent attention to CT as a "fundamental skill for everyone" is shifting the curricular focus in computing from programming to design and applications in such a way as to bring scientific thinking into mainstream education. It is producing an inventory of CT modules and assessment tools that are being developed for use in new undergraduate courses, including a general education introductory CT course and an upper-level Computational Scientific Thinking course for teacher candidates and STEM - Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics majors.These courses are using a scalable game design. Through the progression from designing games to simulations, students are learning many skills including computer science concepts, computational problem-solving, mathematical modeling, analysis of system evolution through simulations and visualization, and experimentation with applications.Computational science serves the nation as both a teaching pedagogy and a workforce strategy. In teaching, the project stimulates a systemic change in undergraduate education that reflects computation becoming an essential and permanent element in sciences. The project is providing CT skills to a wide audience of undergraduate students (CS & non-CS majors), including teacher candidates.