CS for Appalachia: A Research-Practice Partnership for Integrating Computer Science into East Tennessee Schools

阿巴拉契亚计算机科学：将计算机科学融入田纳西州东部学校的研究与实践合作伙伴关系

• 批准号: 1923509
• 负责人: Lynn Hodge
• 金额: $ 25.25万
• 依托单位: University of Tennessee Knoxville
• 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: 2019-10-01 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1923509&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CS; Appalachia; Research; Practice; Partnership

East Tennessee is a region in the heart of Appalachia marked by deep cultural roots and persistent challenges to providing students with substantial computer science (CS) learning experiences. Attention to opportunities for students to engage with CS ideas and practices is urgent and timely in light of new CS standards for the State of Tennessee being implemented in the Fall of 2019. To address the needs of students in East Tennessee Appalachia, this project provides professional development (PD) for teachers to plan for and teach CS strategies that are responsive to students and their communities. This project employs a research-practice partnership among researchers, teachers and administrators to address challenges related to teaching CS, such as access to high-quality professional learning for teachers and technical infrastructure. This collaborative work brings together the University of Tennessee, three rural East Tennessee school districts, and key community organizations. Building and strengthening this partnership enhances learning and lifelong outcomes for students by increasing their opportunities to engage with CS in the elementary grades. For stakeholders as well as researchers, the project leads to an enhanced understanding of how rural school districts create opportunities for students to engage meaningfully with CS and to a strong partnership that will enhance CS education in Appalachia in the years to come. This project's overarching goal is to strengthen, broaden and formalize existing collaborations through work sessions focused upon community learning, foundational CS ideas, knowledge and practice around culturally relevant pedagogy, and a shared vision. The project develops CS standards-aligned professional development for K-5 teachers to (1) engage students in activities that connect with Appalachian culture and lived experiences and (2) cultivate students' interests in and understanding of CS and issues beyond their immediate communities. Research activities involve exploring teacher identity development related to CS and teaching CS, as well as studying teacher learning as a product of their involvement in the PD. Evaluation focuses on efforts to strengthen the research-practice partnership by providing formative and summative feedback to the leadership group. Results are shared with the CS education community across Tennessee and the nation through presentations at conferences and workshops and publications. This collaboration provides new insights for encouraging development of systematic approaches to some of the most persistent STEM education issues faced by the most isolated school districts. This project is funded by the CS for All program.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.

东田纳西州位于阿巴拉契亚腹地，有着深厚的文化根基，在为学生提供实质性的计算机科学(CS)学习体验方面也面临着持续的挑战。鉴于田纳西州将于2019年秋季实施新的CS标准，关注学生接触CS思想和实践的机会是紧迫和及时的。为了满足东田纳西州阿巴拉契亚地区学生的需求，该项目为教师提供专业发展(PD)，以计划和教授响应学生及其社区的CS策略。该项目采用研究人员、教师和管理人员之间的研究-实践伙伴关系，以应对与教授计算机科学有关的挑战，如教师获得高质量的专业学习和技术基础设施。这项合作工作将田纳西大学、东田纳西三个农村学区和主要社区组织聚集在一起。建立和加强这种伙伴关系，通过增加学生在小学年级接触CS的机会，提高他们的学习和终身成果。对于利益攸关方和研究人员来说，该项目有助于加深对农村学区如何为学生创造机会与CS进行有意义的接触的了解，并导致在未来几年加强阿巴拉契亚的CS教育的牢固伙伴关系。该项目的总体目标是通过工作会议加强、扩大和正规化现有的合作，重点是社区学习、基本的CS思想、围绕与文化相关的教育学的知识和实践以及共同的愿景。该项目为K-5教师开发符合CS标准的专业发展，以(1)让学生参与与阿巴拉契亚文化和生活体验相关的活动，以及(2)培养学生对CS的兴趣和理解，以及他们所在社区以外的问题。研究活动包括探讨教师认同发展与教师角色认同发展及教授教师角色认同的关系，以及研究教师在参与社区发展的过程中所产生的学习。评估侧重于通过向领导小组提供形成性和总结性反馈来加强研究-实践伙伴关系的努力。结果通过在会议、研讨会和出版物上的陈述与田纳西州和全国的CS教育界分享。这一合作为鼓励制定系统的方法来解决最孤立的学区面临的一些最顽固的STEM教育问题提供了新的见解。该项目由CS为所有项目提供资金。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。