An Approach for Recruitment, Persistence and Retention of CS/ITS Majors

CS/ITS 专业的招募、保留和保留方法

• 批准号: 1259428
• 负责人: Ron Coleman
• 金额: $ 62.58万
• 依托单位: Marist College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-01 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1259428&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Approach; Recruitment; Persistence; Retention; CS

RPR (An Approach for Recruitment, Persistence, and Retention of CS/ITS Students) provides full four-year scholarships to a cohort of 13 academically-talented and financially-disadvantaged majors in Computer Science and Information Technology & Systems majors. Recruitment initiatives focus on program features that have broad appeal to a diverse population of students, including women. RPR's intellectual merit is grounded in its coordination of initiatives found to be effective in recruiting and retaining students. The program features a cohort approach to learning, including a common freshman year experience where students participate in a two-semester active learning CS sequence, a self-management course that aids in student persistence and retention, and a discrete mathematics course. In addition, students have opportunities to engage in applied research and internships and to be paired with industry mentors. Program evaluation focuses on the effectiveness of recruitment strategies in attracting a diverse cohort and on core program features in aiding student achievement, persistence and retention. The broader impact of RPR is to promote growth and diversity in the CS/ITS field and to disseminate evaluation findings through peer-reviewed publications such as the Proceedings of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) and the Journal of Computer Sciences in Colleges.

RPR(一种招收、坚持和留住CS/ITS学生的方法)为计算机科学和信息技术与系统专业的13名学业有天赋但经济困难的专业学生提供为期四年的全额奖学金。招生计划侧重于对包括女性在内的不同学生群体具有广泛吸引力的项目特点。RPR的智力优势在于它协调了在招生和留住学生方面被发现有效的举措。该计划的特点是采用分组学习方法，包括学生参加为期两个学期的积极学习CS序列的普通大一体验，帮助学生坚持和保持的自我管理课程，以及离散的数学课程。此外，学生还有机会从事应用研究和实习，并与行业导师结对。项目评估的重点是招聘策略在吸引不同群体方面的有效性，以及在帮助学生取得成就、坚持不懈和留住方面的核心项目特征。RPR的更广泛的影响是促进CS/ITS领域的增长和多样性，并通过同行评议的出版物，如ACM计算机科学教育特别兴趣小组(SIGCSE)和大学计算机科学杂志，传播评估结果。