Planning: CE21 Maryland - Building Community and Knowledge to Increase Statewide Support for Computing Education

规划：CE21 马里兰州 - 建设社区和知识以增加全州范围内对计算机教育的支持

• 批准号: 1160624
• 负责人: Marie desJardins
• 金额: $ 19.99万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland Baltimore County
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-03-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1160624&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; CE21; Maryland; Building; Community

The University of Maryland, Baltimore County will gather data about the status of Computer Science education in Maryland high schools and build relationships among high school teachers, community college and university faculty, and state education administrators to facilitate and increase state-level support for lasting improvements to computing education. Despite the overall success of the K-12 education system in Maryland, opportunities to study computer science vary tremendously among the 24 school systems and approximately 200 high schools in the state. This disparity can be attributed to several factors, including the lack of a state-mandated computer science high school graduation requirement, the fact that there is no state-required teacher certification in the discipline, the absence of a standardized computer science curriculum, and barriers to entry for girls and underrepresented minorities.In this CE21 Planning project, the interdisciplinary team at UMBC will focus on two main goals: (1) performing an assessment of the current state of high school computer science in each of the 24 Maryland school systems and (2) increasing knowledge about national issues associated with computer science education among high school and state administrators in Maryland, through state-wide summit meetings for teachers, administrators, and higher education faculty. The longer term objective of this work is to develop curriculum and teacher development programs that will improve the quality, breadth, and student diversity of computer science education in Maryland.

巴尔的摩县马里兰州大学将收集有关马里兰州高中计算机科学教育状况的数据，并在高中教师、社区学院和大学教师以及州教育管理人员之间建立关系，以促进和增加州一级对计算机教育持久改进的支持。尽管马里兰州的K-12教育系统总体上取得了成功，但在该州的24个学校系统和大约200所高中中，学习计算机科学的机会差别很大。这种差异可以归因于几个因素，包括缺乏国家规定的计算机科学高中毕业要求，没有国家要求的教师资格证书，缺乏标准化的计算机科学课程，以及女孩和少数民族的入学障碍。在这个CE 21规划项目中，UMBC的跨学科团队将专注于两个主要目标：（1）在24个马里兰州学校系统中对高中计算机科学的现状进行评估;（2）通过全州范围的教师、管理人员和高等教育教师峰会，增加马里兰州高中和州管理人员对与计算机科学教育相关的国家问题的了解。这项工作的长期目标是制定课程和教师发展计划，将提高质量，广度和学生的多样性，计算机科学教育在马里兰州。