CSforAll: RPP: Pathways for Advancing Computing Education

CSforAll：RPP：推进计算机教育的途径

• 批准号: 1923130
• 负责人: Justin Reich
• 金额: $ 29.92万
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-15 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1923130&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CSforAll; RPP; Pathways; Advancing; Computing

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.

麻省理工学院(MIT)和波士顿马萨诸塞大学(UMB)提出了推进计算教育(PACE)的途径，这是一个研究人员-实践者合作伙伴关系(RPP)，由麻省理工学院教学系统实验室(TSL)、UMB拓宽高级技术教育联系(BATEC)组织，并包括一个由马萨诸塞州联邦16个不同学区组成的联盟。PACE参与者的共同目标是扩大马萨诸塞州计算机科学(CS)中未得到充分服务的群体的计算参与，这些群体包括女性、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CS课程路径；(2)开发一个跟踪CS教与学机会、成绩和公平的措施仪表板；(3)围绕CS公平教学实践发展共享的专业发展经验，涵盖各个学区将做出的不同课程选择；以及(4)在州内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CS教育将需要为不同的学区创建一套多样化的途径--具有不同的课程结构、人口构成和人均支出--以帮助所有学生达到并超过马萨诸塞州的数字扫盲和计算机科学标准，并缩小全州存在的许多与CS教育相关的机会差距。PACE任命的研究员(来自7-8个试点地区的教师和管理人员)将使用战略CSfor ALL研究和实施规划工具(SCRIPT)来确定各自地区的挑战和机会。随着挑战的确定，TSL练习空间框架--让教师为教学中的重要决策进行排练和反思的游戏和模拟--将被用来支持PACE研究员共同设计战略和干预措施，以解决实践中的问题，努力开发一个可用于跟踪整个地区CS教育机会和结果公平进展的措施的原型区“仪表板”。该项目将在这些初步学习经验的基础上反复改进第二年，并为扩大有PACE研究员的地区数量制定道路。该项目将为参与马萨诸塞州CS教育的其他慈善和行业利益相关者参与的更大规模的征求建议书(RFP)奠定基础。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。