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

合作研究：通过使用适当的实证研究方法来改变计算机科学教育研究：指导和教程

• 批准号: 1525173
• 负责人: Sarah Heckman
• 金额: $ 40.66万
• 依托单位: North Carolina State University
• 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: 2015-09-01 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1525173&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Transforming; Computer; Science

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.

该项目的意义和重要性在于其重点是通过为计算机科学教育工作者提供适当评估新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，教育工作者必须大规模有效地教育学生，这需要教学和学习技术的创新。该项目将有助于通过提高教育研究的严谨性和复制频率，将CSEd社区从反思性教学转移到教学和学习的奖学金。因此，计算机科学界将建立关于如何最好地教育学生，以满足计算机科学人才的劳动力需求的理论和实践。在NSF教育研究分类法的背景下，该项目属于基础研究类别，即，该项目的目标是通过创建和支持CSEd研究人员社区来改变CSEd实证研究，具体方法是：（1）创建和管理实验室包，以促进CSEd实证研究;（2）促进10-12名教育工作者的小组，他们在开发和执行CSEd实证研究方面受到指导;以及（3）在计算机科学，特别是CSEd会议上开发和介绍经验研究方法的教程。实验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以前相关研究的结果的辅助工具。使用这些实验包的教师队列将在夏季会议期间进行更有针对性的互动，以开发他们特定的教育研究，并举办后续研讨会来报告和讨论结果。最后，教程和研讨会的结果将允许更广泛地传播经验CSEd研究的关键概念，以更大的计算机科学界。