Collaborative Research: Type I: Taste of Computing: Adding a CS Entree to the Education Choices in a Large Urban School District

德保罗大学和芝加哥洛约拉大学提出了一个项目，以改善和扩大芝加哥公立学校（CPS）高中的计算机科学（CS）教育。该项目将创建一个高质量的CS课程，作为在32所高中提供的为期三年的CPS职业和技术教育信息技术（CTE InfoTech）计划的所有课程的入门课程。该课程将适应和扩展最初为洛杉矶联合学区开发的成功试点“探索计算机科学”（ECS）课程。ECS课程侧重于计算思维，包括人机交互、问题解决、网页设计、编程、计算应用和机器人等单元。该项目将创建新的游戏编程和项目管理单元，作为机器人单元的替代方案。这些新单位赢了？不需要昂贵的技术，方便更多学校采用教育系统；此外，这些课程亦会更好地配合新修订的CTE资讯科技课程所引入的部分课程。为了提高CTE课程的采用率，新课程可能还会作为数学选修课提供，这将是正在开发的新AP计算机科学原理课程的一个很好的预备课程。最后，CPS高中人口中有51%是非洲裔美国人，37%是西班牙裔美国人，这使得芝加哥成为一个理想的地点，可以接触到来自代表性不足群体的学生，并利用pi的专业知识，还将做出具体努力，以实现更公平地代表占人口一半的女性。

DePaul University and Loyola University of Chicago propose a project to improve and expand computer science (CS) education in Chicago Public Schools (CPS) high schools. The project will create a high-quality CS course that will serve as the introductory course for all tracks of the three-year CPS Career and Technology Education InfoTech (CTE InfoTech) program that is offered at 32 high schools. The course will adapt and extend the successful pilot "Exploring Computer Science" (ECS) curriculum originally developed for the Los Angeles Unified School District. With a focus on computational thinking, the ECS curriculum includes units on Human Computer Interaction, Problem Solving, Web Design, Programming, Computing Applications, and Robotics. This project will create new units on Game Programming and Project Management as alternatives to the Robotics unit. These new units won?t require expensive technology, facilitating the adoption of ECS in a wider range of schools; in addition, they will also better serve some of the tracks being introduced in the newly revamped CTE InfoTech curriculum. To increase adoption beyond the CTE program, the new course is likely to be offered also as a Mathematics elective and it will be a great preparatory course for the new AP Computer Science Principles course that is being developed. Finally, the CPS high school population is 51% African American and 37% Hispanic, making Chicago an ideal location to reach students from underrepresented groups, and leveraging the expertise of the PIs, specific efforts will also be made to achieve a more equitable representation of the female half of the population.