Collaborative Research: Type 1: FRABJOUS CS - Framing a Rigourous Approach to Beauty and Joy for Outreach to Underrepresented Students in Computing at Scale

加州大学伯克利分校（University of California, Berkeley）和北卡罗来纳大学夏洛特分校（University of North Carolina, Charlotte）提出了一项名为FRABJOUS的合作计划，旨在开发和部署一门拟议中的新大学先修课程（AP）计算机课程，该课程能够成功地实现推广——吸引女性和代表性不足的少数族裔——同时拥有严格的技术编程组件。这项工作将pi之前在伯克利“计算机的美丽与快乐”课程和大学理事会的计算机科学原理课程上的工作扩展到高中水平，解决了新教学材料的开发和研究，以及教师专业发展对学生学习成果的影响。该课程使用一个视觉丰富的编程环境，称为Snap，它是基于Scratch的。由于其视觉隐喻的力量，Scratch在向8-14岁的孩子教授计算机编程方面取得了充分的成功。Snap扩展了这个比喻，向14-19岁的孩子传授更高级的方法，包括递归、高阶过程和面向对象编程。特别是FRABJOUS项目。在伯克利和夏洛特地区建立一个导师核心小组。为在职高中教师组织和评估暑期专业发展工作坊。发展大学和高中之间的区域伙伴关系，创建CSTA分会，并通过STARS联盟将它们联系起来。研究大学和高中学生的学习成果，按种族、性别、年龄、课程和课程模型分类数据，以了解课程的有效性、易用性和影响，特别是在这个早期阶段引入高级概念（高阶函数、递归、分布式计算、并发性、模拟）。比较pi直接培训的学生和教师与导师教师培训的学生和教师的结果。扩展Snap的功能。因此，该项目包括工具和材料的开发，学生学习成果的评估，以及通过研讨会和学年支持活动（包括点对点和在线支持）研究教师专业发展的影响。

The University of California, Berkeley and the University of North Carolina, Charlotte propose a collaborative effort, called FRABJOUS, to develop and deploy a proposed, new Advanced Placement (AP) computing course that can successfully achieve outreach -- attracting women and underrepresented minorities -- while having a technically rigorous programming component. The work extends the PIs' previous work on the Berkeley "Beauty and Joy of Computing" course and the College Board's CS Principles course to the high school level, addressing the development and study of new instructional materials as well as the impact of teacher professional development on student learning outcomes. The course uses a visually rich programming environment, called Snap, that is based on Scratch. Scratch has had well-documented success in teaching computer programming to 8-14 year olds because of the power of its visual metaphor. Snap extends the metaphor to teach more advanced methods, including recursion, higher order procedures, and object-oriented programming, to 14-19 year olds. Specifically the FRABJOUS project will. Develop a core group of mentor teachers in the Berkeley and Charlotte areas,. Conduct and evaluate intensive summer professional development workshops for in-service high school teachers,. Develop regional partnerships between universities and high schools, creating CSTA chapters and connecting them through the STARS Alliance,. Study university and high school student learning outcomes, disaggregating data by race, gender, age, course, and curricular models to understand the curriculum's effectiveness, ease of use, and impact, particularly the introduction of advanced concepts (higher order functions, recursion,distributed computing, concurrency, simulation) at this early level, . Compare outcomes for students and teaches trained directly by the PIs with those trained by the mentor teachers, and. Expand the capability of Snap.The project thus includes tool and materials development, assessments of student learning outcomes, and study of the impact of teacher professional development via workshops and school year support activities, including peer-to-peer and online support.