A Coordinated, Cross-Institutional Career and Technical Education Cybersecurity Pathway

协调一致的跨机构职业和技术教育网络安全途径

基本信息

批准号：
1837655
负责人：
Jill Denner
金额：
$ 99.97万
依托单位：
ETR Associates
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=1837655&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Coordinated Cross Institutional Career Technical

项目摘要

Community colleges are an untapped resource for broadening participation in computing education and the tech workforce. They are the entry point for the majority of Latino/a college students in the United States, yet efforts to increase diversity in computing are focused on 4-year institutions, and assume students maintain a linear and forward-moving pathway, even though this is not typical for community college students. This project is a collaboration between Education, Training, Research, Pjaro Valley Unified School District, Digital NEST, and Cabrillo College; together they will build a cybersecurity-focused computer information systems pathway from high school to college in a majority-Latino district. Project activities center on: a) A Research-Practice Partnership that will design the pathway, build the capacity of educators to implement and support it, and create policies to institutionalize the pathway, b) high school activities designed to both engage student learning and serve as pathway on-ramps, c) high school/college dual enrollment classes, d) Services that support student pathway success and increase college readiness, and e) Data collection and analysis to: i) monitor student movement along the pathway and ii) guide continuous improvement.Data will be collected from 140 students who will be tracked over time, and from faculty, teachers, counselors, and parents. The results will contribute to knowledge of how to recruit HS students from underrepresented groups into a computer information systems pathway, and the preparation and supports they need to enroll, persist, and complete a computationally intense dual enrollment class. It will also contribute to knowledge about what it takes to have culturally responsive and computationally prepared teachers. The project will produce tested strategies for building on the interests and strengths of girls, Latino/as, and English language learners. It will identify how to get low income students into dual enrollment classes, and what it takes to help them enroll in college and earn college credits in a timely manner. It will also identify multiple entry and exit points in the pathway, in order to produce a model that is more accurate than existing descriptions of linear and always forward-moving pathways. An external evaluator will monitor whether the project is meeting key milestones necessary to test its theory of change. Findings will be shared with a range of stakeholders, including researchers, computer science education practitioners, and administrators, both regionally and nationally.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.

社区大学是扩大参与计算教育和技术劳动力的尚未开发的资源。它们是美国大多数拉丁裔/A大学生的切入点，但是增加计算机多样性的努力集中在4年的机构上，并假设学生保持线性和前瞻性的途径，即使这对于社区大学生来说并不典型。该项目是教育，培训，研究，Pjaro Valley Unified学区，Digital Nest和Cabrillo College之间的合作；他们将共同建立一个以网络安全为中心的计算机信息系统途径，从高中到大多数拉丁裔地区的大学。 Project activities center on: a) A Research-Practice Partnership that will design the pathway, build the capacity of educators to implement and support it, and create policies to institutionalize the pathway, b) high school activities designed to both engage student learning and serve as pathway on-ramps, c) high school/college dual enrollment classes, d) Services that support student pathway success and increase college readiness, and e) Data collection and analysis to: i) monitor student movement along the pathway and ii)指南持续改进。数据将从140名随着时间的推移以及教职员工，老师，辅导员和父母进行追踪的学生收集。结果将有助于了解如何将来自代表性不足的小组招募HS学生进入计算机信息系统途径，以及他们需要的准备和支持以注册，坚持和完成计算强度的双重注册类别。它还将有助于了解具有文化响应和计算准备的教师所需的知识。该项目将制定经过测试的策略，以建立女孩，拉丁裔/AS和英语学习者的兴趣和优势。它将确定如何使低收入学生参加双重入学级课程，以及帮助他们及时获得大学学分所需的方式。它还将确定路径中的多个入口和退出点，以产生比现有线性描述和始终向前移动途径更准确的模型。外部评估者将监视该项目是否符合测试其变革理论所需的关键里程碑。调查结果将与一系列利益相关者分享，包括研究人员，计算机科学教育从业人员以及在地区和全国范围内的管理人员。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响来通过评估来支持的。