Expanding the Reach of AP CSP Curricula

芝加哥大学初等数学与科学教育中心（CEMSE）正在开展这个名为“扩展AP CSP课程的范围”的EAGER项目，以帮助两个正在为新的AP CSP课程开发课程的小组准备广泛使用的材料。这两门课程都是在美国国家科学基金会的支持下开发的，分别是Mobile CSP（三一学院开发）和thrive in Our Digital World（德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校开发）。拟议的工作将集中在六个对课程成功扩展至关重要的领域：可用性、可市场性、可持续性、健壮性、标准标签和关键特征的清晰度。CEMSE的研究人员和课程开发人员将与AP CSP课程开发人员合作，分析他们的课程在这六个领域的优势和劣势，并开发模板、辅助工具、相关性、概述、教师版本和其他资产，使课程最大限度地有用并吸引全国各地的教师。这项工作将为其他计算机科学课程的课程开发提供一个模型，并可能为计算机科学原则课程框架本身的可能改进提供见解。

The University of Chicago's Center for Elementary Mathematics and Science Education (CEMSE) is pursuing this EAGER project, "Expanding the Reach of AP CSP Curricula," to help two of the groups that are developing curricula for the new Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles (AP CSP) course prepare their materials for broad use. The two curricula -- both developed with NSF support -- are Mobile CSP (developed at Trinity College) and Thriving in Our Digital World (developed by the University of Texas at Austin). The proposed work will focus on six areas that are critical for successful scaling of the curricula: usability, marketability, sustainability, robustness, standards labeling, and clarity about critical features. Researchers and curriculum developers at CEMSE will collaborate with the AP CSP curriculum developers to analyze their programs' strengths and weaknesses in these six areas and to develop templates, ancillaries, correlations, overviews, teacher's editions, and other assets that will make the curricula maximally useful and appealing to teachers across the nation. The work will provide a model for curriculum development for other CS courses, and may well provide insights into possible improvements to the CS Principles course framework itself.