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.

黑人妇女在计算机领域的代表性严重不足，这是因为黑人女孩在接受中学后教育之前就在K-12教育系统中面临教育障碍。中年级是学生的一个关键过渡点，随着时间的推移，成就差距和对STEM-CS的兴趣会扩大。该项目是一个研究人员-实践者伙伴关系（RPP），是一个为期两年的项目，将吸引教师，学校领导，指导顾问和研究人员，以确定在中学结构，教学和课程改进领域的障碍和未来的工作，以促进更多的黑人女孩获得计算机科学的兴趣和经验。该团队的一些核心成员正在为中学黑人女孩开发一个名为BRIGHT-CS的计算机科学学习生态系统，其中包括夏季和基于学校的编程。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，促进黑人女孩对CS的兴趣和学习。虽然核心团队得到了社区学校的隐性支持，但迫切需要明确地让教师、指导顾问和学校领导参与进来，以进一步支持一个包容的环境，让黑人女孩在学校茁壮成长。该项目的基础是多样性和包容性问题，特别是扩大计算机科学的参与，必须是教学社区内系统的，持久的和持续的工作。此外，区域方案计划还将解决查明和纠正学校障碍的问题，以促进包容性的学校环境，使包括其他边缘化学生在内的所有学生受益，通过区域方案计划，该项目将在三所中学建立专业学习社区，其中包括研究人员、指导顾问、教师和学校领导。RPP将支持解决为什么很少有黑人女孩感兴趣并在中年级追求计算机科学的初步步骤。RPP不是笼统地说，也不是着眼于国家趋势，而是专门研究三所学校和课堂数据，对黑人女孩在学校面临的结构、教学和课程障碍进行公平审计。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。