CSforAll: RPP: Pathways for Advancing Computing Education

麻省理工学院（MIT）和马萨诸塞大学波士顿分校（UMB）提出了推进计算教育的途径（PACE），这是一个研究-实践伙伴关系（RPP）组织的网络改进社区（NIC），由麻省理工学院教学系统实验室（TSL）、马萨诸塞大学扩展先进技术教育联系（BATEC）促进，包括一个由马萨诸塞州联邦16个不同学区组成的联盟。PACE的参与者有一个共同的目标，即扩大马萨诸塞州计算机科学（CS）中服务不足群体的计算机参与：女性、黑人和西班牙裔/拉丁裔、低收入学生、英语学习者和残疾学生。NIC的长期目标是：(1)完善高中计算机科学课程路径；(2)开发一个仪表板，用于跟踪计算机科学教学的获取、成就和公平性；(3)围绕CS公平教学实践开发共享的专业发展经验，以跨越各个地区将做出的不同课程选择；(4)在全州和全国范围内广泛共享新的模式、课程和专业发展资源。该项目将支持NIC开发的第一阶段。加强整个联邦的计算机科学教育将需要为不同的地区创造一套多样化的途径——不同的课程结构、人口组成和每个学生的支出——以帮助所有学生达到并超过马萨诸塞州数字素养和计算机科学标准，并缩小与该州存在的计算机科学教育相关的许多机会差距。pace指定的研究员（来自7-8个试验地区的教师和行政人员）将使用战略CSforALL研究和实施规划工具（SCRIPT）来识别他们地区的挑战和机遇。随着挑战的确定，TSL实践空间框架——让教师演练和反思教学中的重要决策的游戏和模拟——将用于支持PACE研究员共同设计策略和干预措施，以解决实践问题，努力开发一个原型地区“仪表板”，用于跟踪整个地区CS教育在机会公平和成果方面的进展。该项目将在第二年不断改进这些最初的学习经验，并规划出扩大拥有PACE研究员的地区数量的途径。该项目将为更大规模的征求建议书（RFP）奠定基础，吸引马萨诸塞州从事计算机科学教育的其他慈善机构和行业利益相关者。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Massachusetts, Boston (UMB) propose Pathways for Advancing Computing Education (PACE), a researcher-practitioner partnership (RPP) organized as a networked improvement community (NIC) facilitated by the MIT Teaching Systems Lab (TSL), the UMB Broadening Advanced Technology Education Connections (BATEC), and including a consortium of 16 diverse school districts across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. PACE participants share the common goal of broadening participation in computing for underserved groups in computer science (CS) in Massachusetts: females, Black and Hispanic/Latinx, low-income students, English learner students and students with disabilities. The long term objectives of the NIC are to (1) refine high school CS curriculum pathways; (2) develop a dashboard of measures for tracking access, achievement, and equity in CS teaching and learning; (3) develop shared professional development experiences around CS equity teaching practices that cut across the different curriculum choices that individual districts will make; and (4) share new models, curricula, and professional development resources widely across the state and across the country. This project will support the first phase of the NIC development.Strengthening CS education across the commonwealth will require creating a diverse set of pathways for different districts--with different curriculum structures, demographic compositions, and per pupil expenditures--to make progress towards helping all students meet and exceed the Massachusetts Digital Literacy and Computer Science standards and close the many opportunity gaps related to CS education that exist throughout the state. PACE-appointed fellows (teachers and administrators from 7-8 pilot districts) will use the Strategic CSforALL Research and Implementation Planning Tool (SCRIPT) to identify challenges and opportunities in their districts. As the challenges are identified, the TSL practice space framework--games and simulations that let teachers rehearse for and reflect upon important decisions in teaching--will be used to support PACE fellows in co-designing strategies and interventions to address problems of practice, working towards developing a prototype district "dashboard" of measures that can be used to track progress towards equity of opportunity and outcomes in CS education across the district. The project will iteratively improve on these initial learning experiences for a second year and map out pathways for expanding the number of districts with PACE fellows. The project will set the stage for a larger request for proposals (RFP) that engages other philanthropic and industry stakeholders engaged in CS education in Massachusetts.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.