Integrating Computational Thinking in Mathematics and Science High School Teacher Professional Development

将计算思维融入数学和科学高中教师专业发展

• 批准号: 1812982
• 负责人: Margaret Cozzens
• 金额: $ 227.64万
• 依托单位: Rutgers University New Brunswick
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-15 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1812982&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Integrating; Computational; Thinking; Mathematics; Science

The Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science and the University of Connecticut Neag School of Education will develop a comprehensive online professional development program for high school science and mathematics teachers. The program model will be designed for teachers to integrate computational thinking into their science and mathematics practice. The research will study how and under what conditions integrated science, mathematics, and computational approaches will effectively develop teachers' understanding of computational thinking; improve teachers' instructional practice; and will transfer computational thinking concepts to their math and science students. As a result of the project, teachers will be able to enhance student learning in science and mathematics using computation to develop their own models, algorithms, and tools to analyze real-world data and associated problems. Teachers will engage in this online professional development model from across the country, with research results and educational materials shared online, through publications and education journals, and professional science and mathematics education conferences. This project was submitted in response to the NSF Dear Colleague Letter DRK12 Advancing STEM + Computing (17-149) and is supported by the STEM + Computing Program that advances research and development of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to the integration of computing within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) teaching and learning for preK-12 students in both formal and informal settings. STEM+C supports research on how students learn to think computationally to solve interdisciplinary problems in the STEM fields.The research and development will combine an online teacher professional development program with research that investigates how well teachers learn computational thinking in an online setting and how and under what conditions they transfer the computational thinking concepts to students in their math or science classes. The research will result in a well-designed model for an online, scalable teacher professional development for the integration of computational thinking in science and mathematics education and how teachers gain content knowledge and pedagogical skills. Project results will include a cadre of teachers who understand how to engage students in computational thinking concepts within the traditional HS science and mathematics curriculum and who are able to use computational approaches within the science and mathematics disciplines with their students to solve disciplinary problems. Research results and professional development materials will be available for use by teacher educators, professional developers, and others developing HS programs in computational thinking.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

离散数学和理论计算机科学中心和康涅狄格大学Neag教育学院将为高中科学和数学教师开发一个全面的在线专业发展计划。该程序模型将被设计为教师将计算思维融入他们的科学和数学实践。该研究将研究如何以及在什么条件下，综合科学，数学和计算方法将有效地发展教师的计算思维的理解，提高教师的教学实践，并将计算思维的概念转移到他们的数学和科学的学生。作为该项目的结果，教师将能够提高学生在科学和数学学习使用计算开发自己的模型，算法和工具来分析现实世界的数据和相关的问题。教师将参与来自全国各地的在线专业发展模式，通过出版物和教育期刊以及专业科学和数学教育会议在线共享研究成果和教育材料。该项目是为了响应NSF Dear Colleague Letter DRK 12 Advancing STEM + Computing（17-149）而提交的，并得到了STEM + Computing计划的支持，该计划推动了跨学科和跨学科方法的研究和开发，以将计算整合到科学，技术，工程，和数学（STEM）教学和学习的preK-12学生在正式和非正式的设置。STEM+C支持学生如何学习计算思维以解决STEM领域的跨学科问题的研究。该研究和开发将联合收割机在线教师专业发展计划与研究相结合，研究教师在在线环境中学习计算思维的情况，以及他们如何以及在什么条件下将计算思维概念转移到学生的数学或科学课程中。该研究将为在线，可扩展的教师专业发展提供一个精心设计的模型，用于科学和数学教育中计算思维的整合以及教师如何获得内容知识和教学技能。项目成果将包括一批教师，他们了解如何在传统的HS科学和数学课程中让学生参与计算思维概念，并且能够在科学和数学学科中与学生一起使用计算方法来解决学科问题。研究成果和专业发展材料将提供给教师教育工作者、专业开发人员和其他在计算思维方面开发HS程序的人使用。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。