Bringing a Rigorous Computer Science Principles Course to the Largest School System in the United States

将严格的计算机科学原理课程引入美国最大的学校系统

• 批准号: 1441075
• 负责人: E. Paul Goldenberg
• 金额: $ 637.49万
• 依托单位: Education Development Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1441075&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Bringing; Rigorous; Computer; Science; Principles

This project involves a partnership between the Education Development Center, the University of California-Berkeley, the New York City Foundation for Computer Science, and the New York City Department of Education. The project team will develop curricular materials, based on the Beauty and Joy of Computing course developed at University of California-Berkeley, for teaching Computer Science Principles at the high school level using the Snap! programming language. They will run in-person teacher-training programs each summer, and develop an online teacher development course. During the project, 100 high school teachers in New York City will be trained to teach this course, and early participants will also become teacher-trainers who will work with later participants. The teachers involved will become part of a Community of Practice that will continue to provide support for the teacher cohorts.This project is a design and development study. The central research hypothesis is that the explanatory power of a visual programming language can make advanced techniques such as recursion and higher order functions accessible to high school students, including traditionally underrepresented groups. The project team also hopes to show that students completing this Computer Science (CS) Principles course will be motivated and well prepared to succeed in later courses, such as the Advanced Placement (AP) CS A course. They will use the knowledge gained from this experience in New York City (NYC) to improve the course through iterative development and refinement and to increase understanding of the implementation of these ideas in high school contexts more broadly. Formative data will be collected throughout the project and analyzed, and used to inform subsequent revisions to the curriculum materials. They will use qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods analysis approaches. Over the four years of the project, the project team will work with the 100 teachers who will participate in the project, attend professional development activities, and teach the CS Principles course to a total of approximately 2,000 students in NYC. Evaluation instruments will include background surveys, feedback surveys, course assessments, the AP CS Principles exam (currently under development by the College Board), classroom observations, student interest and engagement assessments, student papers, and teacher interviews. All 100 NYC teachers involved will be part of the research study.

该项目涉及教育发展中心、加州大学伯克利分校、纽约市计算机科学基金会和纽约市教育部之间的合作伙伴关系。该项目团队将根据加州大学伯克利分校开发的《计算机之美与喜悦》课程开发课程材料，使用Snap！在高中阶段教授计算机科学原理！编程语言。他们将在每年夏天开展面对面的教师培训项目，并开发一个在线教师发展课程。在该项目期间，纽约市的100名高中教师将接受教授这门课程的培训，早期参与者也将成为教师培训师，他们将与后来的参与者一起工作。参与的教师将成为实践社区的一部分，该社区将继续为教师队伍提供支持。这个项目是一个设计和发展研究。研究的中心假设是，可视化编程语言的解释能力可以使高中生，包括传统上代表性较低的群体，能够接触到高级技术，如递归和高阶函数。项目团队还希望表明，完成这门计算机科学(CS)原理课程的学生将受到激励，并为在以后的课程中取得成功做好充分准备，例如高级选修课程(AP)CS A课程。他们将利用在纽约市(NYC)的这一经历所获得的知识，通过迭代开发和改进来改进课程，并在更广泛的高中背景下增加对这些想法实施的理解。将在整个项目中收集和分析形成的数据，并将其用于随后对课程材料的修订。他们将使用定性、定量和混合方法分析方法。在该项目的四年中，项目团队将与100名教师合作，这些教师将参与该项目，参加专业发展活动，并向纽约市总共约2000名学生教授CS原理课程。评估工具将包括背景调查、反馈调查、课程评估、AP CS原理考试(目前正在由大学理事会制定)、课堂观察、学生兴趣和参与度评估、学生论文和教师访谈。所有参与的100名纽约市教师都将参与这项研究。

项目成果

Why Do Students Enroll in AP CSP?

学生为何报名参加 AP CSP？

• DOI: 10.1109/respect51740.2021.9620546
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: RESPECT 2021 Conference Proceedings
• 作者: Mark, June;Zeringue, Julie Koehler;Klein, K.;Mitchell, Tunisia;Olivares, José A.
• 通讯作者: Olivares, José A.

Teaching children to be problem posers and puzzle-creators in mathematics

教导孩子成为数学中的问题提出者和谜题创造者

• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: Proceedings of Constructionism 2018
• 作者: Goldenberg, E.Paul