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

加州大学伯克利分校和北卡罗来纳大学夏洛特分校提出了一项名为Frabjous的合作努力，以开发和部署一种拟议的、新的高级定位(AP)计算课程，该课程可以成功地实现扩展？吸引女性和代表性不足的少数族裔？同时拥有技术上严格的编程组件。这项工作是PI的延伸吗？伯克利？美与计算的喜悦？以前的工作？课程和大学理事会？S CS原理课程到高中阶段，阐述了新教材的开发和研究以及教师专业发展对学生学习结果的影响。本课程使用了一个视觉效果丰富的编程环境，称为Snap，它基于Scratch。由于Scratch的视觉隐喻的力量，Scratch在向8-14岁的孩子教授计算机编程方面取得了很好的成功。Snap将这个比喻扩展到向14-19岁的青少年传授更高级的方法，包括递归、高阶过程和面向对象编程。具体地说，Frabjous项目会吗？在伯克利和夏洛特地区培养一支核心的辅导教师团队，？为在职高中教师举办密集的暑期专业发展研讨会并对其进行评估；发展大学和高中之间的区域伙伴关系，创建Csta分会，并通过STAR联盟将它们联系起来，？研究大学和高中生的学习成果，按种族、性别、年龄、课程和课程模式分类数据，以了解课程的有效性、易用性和影响，特别是在这个早期水平引入高级概念(高阶函数、递归、分布式计算、并发、模拟)？比较由绩效指标直接培训的学生和教师的结果与由指导教师培训的结果，以及？因此，该项目包括开发工具和材料，评估学生的学习成果，并通过讲习班和学年支助活动研究教师专业发展的影响，包括对等和在线支助。

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 tounderstand the curriculum's effectiveness, ease of use, and impact, particularlythe 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.