Collaborative Research: Transforming Computer Science Education Research Through Use of Appropriate Empirical Research Methods: Mentoring and Tutorials

这个项目的意义和重要性在于它的重点是通过为计算机科学教育工作者提供适当评估新的教学方法所需的工具和指导，来提高计算机科学教育(CSED)的价值和有效性。随着对计算机科学毕业生需求的增加，教育工作者必须有效地对学生进行规模化教育，这就需要在教与学技术上进行创新。该项目将通过提高教育研究的严谨性和复制频率，帮助CSED社区从反思性教学转向教学和学习奖学金。因此，计算机科学界将建立关于如何最好地教育学生以满足劳动力对计算机科学人才的需求的理论和实践。在NSF教育研究分类的背景下，本项目属于基础研究类别，即开发技术创新，这些创新将影响和促进不同环境下的研究和开发。本项目的目标是通过创建和支持CSED研究人员社区来转变经验性CSED研究，方法是：(1)创建和管理实验室包以促进经验性CSED研究；(2)促进10-12名教育工作者的队列，他们在开发和执行经验性CSED研究研究方面受到指导；以及(3)在计算机科学，特别是CSED会议上开发和展示经验研究方法的教程。实验室包是为研究人员提供研究问题、设计和执行研究的方法、复制研究的工具和资源以及先前相关研究结果的辅助工具。使用这些实验室套件的教员将在暑期课程期间进行更集中的互动，以开发他们特定的教育研究，并通过后续研讨会报告和讨论结果。最后，教程和研讨会成果将允许向更大的计算机科学界更广泛地传播经验性CSED研究的关键概念。

The significance and importance of this project resides in its focus on increasing the value and effectiveness of Computer Science Education (CSEd) by providing computer science educators with the tools and the mentoring necessary to properly evaluate novel teaching methods. As the demand for computer science graduates increases, educators must effectively educate students at scale, which requires innovation in teaching and learning techniques. This project will help move the CSEd community from reflective teaching to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning by increasing education research rigor and replication frequency. As a result, the computer science community will build theories and practices about how best to educate students to meet workforce needs for computer science talent. In the context of the NSF taxonomy of Education Research this project resides in the Foundational Research category, i.e., one that develops innovations in technology that will influence and inform research and development in different contexts.The goal of this project is to transform empirical CSEd research by creating and supporting a community of CSEd researchers through: (1) creation and curation of laboratory packages to facilitate empirical CSEd research; (2) facilitation of cohorts of 10-12 educators who are mentored in developing and executing an empirical CSEd research study; and (3) development and presentation of tutorials on empirical research methods at computer science and, in particular, CSEd conferences. Laboratory packages are aids that provide researchers with a research question, a methodology for designing and executing a study, tools and resources to replicate the study, and results of previous related studies. The faculty cohorts using these laboratory packages will have a more-focused interaction during a summer session to develop their particular education research study with a follow-up workshop to report and discuss results. Finally, the tutorials and workshop results will allow for broader dissemination of the key concepts of empirical CSEd research to the larger computer science community.