Examining the Factors that Affect the Implementation and Sustainability of Exploring Computer Science (ECS) in School Districts

CEMSE的研究和评估小组（中心小学数学和科学教育）在芝加哥的大学将支持CS 10 K的努力，通过以下项目目标，为CS 10 K的成功贡献必要的知识基础：（一）告知CS 10 K领导者和其他CS教育工作者关于大规模高中CS教育实施的支持和障碍，并提供解决策略他们;（2）提供测量CS计划实施的工具，以及影响实施的支持和障碍;（3）根据研究结果和关于实施和发展CS教育的建议创建产品。该项目建立在CEMSE以前的NSF工作的基础上，严格研究教育创新（新的实践和计划）的实施以及影响创新实施和可持续性的因素。该研究小组将通过检查探索计算机科学（ECS）计划的实施情况，并确定支持，并在几个大的学区实施的障碍来实现项目目标。具体而言，该项目将严格研究ECS在芝加哥，洛杉矶和华盛顿的实施，重点是目前影响ECS使用的因素，特别注意这些因素如何以及为什么在不同的背景下变化。本研究将集中探讨三个问题：（1）各研究中心的环境控制系统实施状况如何？（2）什么支持和障碍有助于或抑制环境控制系统的实施和持久性？以及（3）这些支持和障碍在何种程度上因地点和时间而异？该团队将采用混合方法研究设计，使用通过教师和学生问卷收集的数据; ECS开发人员，学区人员，学校领导和教师访谈;和学生焦点小组。研究人员将与CS 10 K项目负责人，CS教育顾问以及学校和地区从业人员合作，通过出版物，演示文稿，在线报告，网络研讨会和面对面讨论与相关利益相关者分享调查结果和及时有用的信息。 该研究将强调系统性努力的挑战，以提高高中CS教育的可及性，质量和数量，并提供建议，以应对这些挑战，最终帮助K-12 CS社区将所需的计划带入学校，并支持持久的，系统性的变化。

The Research and Evaluation Group at CEMSE (Center for Elementary Mathematics and Science Education) at the University of Chicago will support the CS 10K effort by contributing to a necessary knowledgebase for CS 10K success through the following project goals: (1) Informing CS 10K leaders and other CS educators about the supports and barriers to wide scale high school CS education implementation and providing strategies for addressing them; (2) Providing tools for measuring CS program implementation and the supports and barriers that affect implementation; and (3) Creating products from research findings and recommendations about implementing and growing CS education. This project builds on CEMSE's previous NSF work rigorously studying implementation of educational innovations (new practices and programs) and the factors that affect innovation implementation and sustainability. The research team will accomplish the project goals by examining implementation of the Exploring Computer Science (ECS) program and identifying the supports for, and barriers to implementation in several large school districts. Specifically, the project will rigorously study ECS implementation in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC with a focus on the factors that currently affect ECS use, with particular attention to how and why these factors vary in the different contexts. The study will focus three research questions: (1) What is the status of ECS implementation in each site?; ( 2) What supports and barriers contribute to or inhibit the implementation and endurance of ECS?; and (3) To what extent do these supports and barriers differ by location and over time? The team will employ a mixed-methods research design using data collected through teacher and student questionnaires; ECS developer, school district personnel, school leader, and teacher interviews; and student focus groups. Researchers will work collaboratively with CS 10K project leaders, CS education advisors, and school and district practitioners to produce findings and share timely and useful information with involved stakeholders through publication, presentations, on-line reports, webinars, and in-person discussions. The study will highlight the challenges to systemic efforts to increase accessibility, quality and quantity of high school CS education and offer recommendations to meet those challenges, ultimately helping the K-12 CS community bring needed programs into schools, and support lasting, systemic change.