Building Student Retention through Individuated Guided Cohort Training in Computer Science Research-Practitioner Partnership

通过计算机科学研究与从业者伙伴关系中的个性化引导队列培训来提高学生保留率

• 批准号: 1837344
• 负责人: Ryoko Yamaguchi
• 金额: $ 29.38万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina Greensboro
• 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: 2018-10-01 至 2021-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1837344&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Building; Student; Retention; through; Individuated

There is a severe underrepresentation of black women in computing, explained by educational barriers that black girls face in the K-12 education system even before reaching postsecondary education. Middle grades are a critical transition point for students, where achievement gaps and interest in STEM-CS widen over time. This project, a Researcher-Practitioner Partnership (RPP), is a two-year project that will engage teachers, school leaders, guidance counselors, and researchers to identify barriers and future work in the areas of structural, instructional, and curricular improvements in middle schools to promote more black girls to gain interest and experience in computer science. Some of the core members of the team are developing a computer science learning ecosystem for middle school black girls, called BRIGHT-CS, that includes summer and school based programming. This project is an extension of the BRIGHT-CS project to engage teachers in an RPP to create an inclusive environment to promote CS interest and learning among black girls in their schools. While the core team has had implicit support from schools in the community, there is an exigent need to explicitly engage teachers, guidance counselors, and school leaders to further support an inclusive environment where black girls can thrive at school. The project rests on the foundation that issues of diversity and inclusivity, and broadening participation in computer science specifically, must be systematic, persistent, and ongoing work within the teaching community. Further, the RPP addresses issues around identifying and rectifying barriers in the school that will promote an inclusive school environment that will benefit all students including other marginalized students.Through the RPP, the project will establish professional learning communities (PLCs) in three middle schools that includes researchers, guidance counselors, teachers and school leaders. The RPP will support the initial steps in addressing why there are so few black girls interested and pursuing computer science in the middle grades. Rather than speaking in general terms, or looking at national trends, the RPP will look specifically at the three schools and classroom data to conduct an equity audit on the structural, instructional, and curricular barriers that black girls face in their school. The result will be a PLC logic model and a research agenda for future RPP proposals.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.

黑人妇女在计算中的代表性不足，这是由黑人女孩在接受高等教育之前在K-12教育系统中面临的教育障碍所解释的。中级是学生的关键过渡点，随着时间的流逝，成就差距和对STEM-CS的兴趣扩大。该项目是一项研究人员 - 实证人伙伴关系（RPP），是一个为期两年的项目，它将吸引教师，学校领导者，指导顾问和研究人员，以确定中学结构，教学和课程改进领域的障碍和未来工作，以促进更多的黑人女孩，以在计算机科学领域获得利益和经验。该团队的一些核心成员正在为中学黑人女孩（名为Bright-CS）开发一个计算机科学学习生态系统，其中包括夏季和基于学校的节目。该项目是Bright-CS项目的延伸，旨在让教师参与RPP，以创造一个包容性的环境，以促进学校中的黑人女孩的兴趣和学习。虽然核心团队在社区中的学校得到了隐含的支持，但紧急需要明确吸引教师，指导顾问和学校领导者，以进一步支持包容性的环境，黑人女孩可以在学校里壮成长。该项目基于这样一个基础，即多样性和包容性问题，并特别扩大计算机科学的参与，必须是系统的，持久的，并且在教学社区内进行了持续的工作。此外，RPP解决了有关识别和纠正学校中的障碍的问题，这些问题将促进包容性的学校环境，该环境将使包括其他边缘化的学生在内的所有学生受益。通过RPP，该项目将在包括研究人员，指导顾问，教师，教师和学校领袖在内的三所中学建立专业学习社区（PLC）。 RPP将支持最初的步骤，以解决为什么黑人女孩感兴趣并在中级追求计算机科学。 RPP并不是一般性讲话或研究国家趋势，而是专门研究三所学校和课堂数据，以对黑人女孩在学校中面临的结构，教学和课程障碍进行股权审核。结果将是PLC逻辑模型和未来RPP提案的研究议程。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，认为值得通过评估来获得支持。