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.

东田纳西州是阿巴拉契亚州中心的一个地区，其标志着为学生提供实质性计算机科学（CS）学习经验的深厚文化根源和持续的挑战。鉴于2019年秋季实施田纳西州的新CS标准，对学生进行CS想法和实践的机会的关注是紧迫的，及时的。为了满足田纳西州东田纳西州阿巴拉契亚的学生的需求，该项目为教师提供了对学生及其社区的影响和教师策略的专业发展（PD）。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来应对与教学有关的CS的挑战，例如为教师获得高质量的专业学习和技术基础设施。这项合作工作汇集了田纳西大学，三个田纳西州东部的三个农村地区和主要社区组织。建立和加强这种伙伴关系通过增加与基础成绩中CS的机会来增强学生的学习和终身成果。对于利益相关者和研究人员，该项目可以增进对农村学区如何为学生创造机会与CS和强大伙伴关系的机会，从而增强未来几年中阿巴拉契亚的CS教育。该项目的总体目标是通过关注社区学习，基础CS的思想，知识和实践的工作会议来加强，扩大和形式化现有的合作，围绕文化相关的教学法以及共同的愿景。该项目为K-5教师开发了CS标准的专业发展，以（1）吸引学生参与与阿巴拉契亚文化和生活经验联系起来的活动，以及（2）培养学生对CS和直接社区以外的CS和问题的兴趣和理解。研究活动涉及探索与CS和教学CS相关的教师身份发展，并研究教师学习作为其参与PD的产物。评估重点是通过向领导小组提供形成性和总结性的反馈来加强研究实践伙伴关系的努力。结果通过会议，讲习班和出版物的演讲与田纳西州和国家的CS教育社区共享。这项合作为鼓励制定系统的方法提供了新的见解，以解决最孤立的学区所面临的一些最持久的STEM教育问题。该项目由CS为所有计划提供资金。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审查标准的评估来支持的。