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

该项目通过教授计算思维（CT），弥合了计算机科学（CS）与自然科学之间的界限，以及高等教育机构与K-12之间的差距。最近，计算机科学作为一项“人人必备的基本技能”受到关注，这使得计算机课程的重点从编程转向设计和应用，从而将科学思维引入主流教育。它正在编制一份CT模块和评估工具清单，用于新的本科课程，包括普通教育CT入门课程和面向教师候选人和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。通过从设计游戏到模拟的过程，学生们学习了许多技能，包括计算机科学概念，计算解决问题，数学建模，通过模拟和可视化分析系统进化，以及应用实验。计算科学既是一种教学方法，也是一种劳动力战略，为国家服务。在教学方面，该项目激发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永久元素。该项目向包括教师候选人在内的广大本科生（计算机科学和非计算机科学专业）提供计算机科学技能。

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.