CER: MyCS - Middle Years Computer Science

CER：MyCS - 中学计算机科学

• 批准号: 1240939
• 负责人: Zachary Dodds
• 金额: $ 59.65万
• 依托单位: Harvey Mudd College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-05-15 至 2017-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1240939&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CER; MyCS; Middle; Years; Computer

Harvey Mudd College will adapt exemplary educational resources to create MyCS, a CS curriculum whose goal is to develop positive computational identities among middle-school students. A positive computational identity subsumes self-efficacy, enjoyment, and future engagement with creating computation. The project's approach existing pedagogical resources into three distinct MyCS variations. Inspired by UCLA's high-school course, Exploring Computer Science (ECS), the first variation broadly explores computational concepts and skills. The second variation is a depth-based development of programming skills through Scratch and web technologies, adapting several successful middle- and high-school courses. The third variation is a hybrid that punctuates skill-building in Scratch and web programming with curricular breaks contextualizing those skills. The project investigates how teachers and students respond to these different MyCS realizations. The project team will compare results within and among the primary partnering school district, Pomona Unified in Pomona, CA, along with our two secondary partnering districts, Lihue, HI and San Bernardino, CA. In order to maximize the number of students reached, the project focuses on middle-school teacher development through summer workshops and academic-year support.Computation has become a crucial component of every modern endeavor. It has not, however, become a component of every modern student's identity. That is, the number of students who feel that "computation is something that people like me create" lags significantly behind the demand for computational creativity, both now and in the foreseeable future. Because of their pivotal role in early identity-formation, the middle-school years provide a window of opportunity to build a positive computational identity and to prime the pump for the ambitious CS10k project. To that end, this project develops, deploys, and assesses several variations of a middle-years computer-science curriculum, MyCS. The project team will build MyCS communities within targeted schools in three districts, each with a large majority of students from a distinct group underrepresented in STEM fields. Two key benefits will result. First, those communities will continue to develop computationally confident students even after the project concludes. Second, assessments will cull less effective variations and facets of MyCS, leaving a ready-to-go curriculum that will succeed in further regional deployment and will be prepared for larger-scale vetting, national trials, and broader adaptations.

Harvey Mudd College将采用示范性的教育资源来创建MyCS，这是一门CS课程，其目标是在中学生中培养积极的计算身份。积极的计算身份包括自我效能、享受和未来参与创造计算。该项目将现有的教学资源分为三个不同的MyCS变体。受加州大学洛杉矶分校的高中课程，探索计算机科学（ECS）的启发，第一个变化广泛探讨计算概念和技能。第二种变化是通过Scratch和Web技术进行基于深度的编程技能开发，适应几个成功的初中和高中课程。第三种变体是一种混合体，它强调Scratch和Web编程中的技能培养，并通过课程休息将这些技能置于情境中。该项目调查了教师和学生如何应对这些不同的MyCS实现。该项目小组将比较结果内部和之间的主要合作学区，波莫纳统一在波莫纳，加利福尼亚州，沿着与我们的两个中学合作区，利韦，HI和圣贝纳迪诺，加利福尼亚州。为了最大限度地扩大学生人数，该项目通过暑期讲习班和学年支持，重点关注中学教师的发展。计算已成为每一个现代奋进的重要组成部分。然而，它并没有成为每个现代学生身份的组成部分。也就是说，无论是现在还是在可预见的未来，认为“计算是像我这样的人创造的东西”的学生人数都远远落后于对计算创造力的需求。由于他们在早期身份形成中的关键作用，中学时代提供了一个机会之窗，可以建立一个积极的计算身份，并为雄心勃勃的CS10k项目提供动力。为此，该项目开发，部署和评估几个变化的中间年计算机科学课程，MyCS。该项目团队将在三个地区的目标学校内建立MyCS社区，每个地区的大部分学生都来自STEM领域代表性不足的独特群体。这将带来两个关键的好处。首先，即使在项目结束后，这些社区也将继续培养对计算有信心的学生。第二，评估将剔除MyCS的不太有效的变体和方面，留下一个随时可用的课程，该课程将在进一步的区域部署中取得成功，并将为更大规模的审查、国家试验和更广泛的调整做好准备。