Collaborative Research: Preparing Urban Milwaukee for Pathways in Computer Science

合作研究：为密尔沃基市的计算机科学之路做好准备

• 批准号: 1923581
• 负责人: Steven McGee
• 金额: $ 48.64万
• 依托单位: The Learning Partnership
• 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 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1923581&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Preparing; Urban; Milwaukee

Wisconsin faces increasingly inequitable access to Computer Science (CS) content in schools. Affluent suburban schools add courses, such as CS Principles (CSP), at a record rate. Schools with fewer resources have little or no CS offerings and see meager access diminished as scarce while CS teachers are lured away to industry and the suburbs. Marquette University and The Learning Partnership have already made significant inroads in expanding Wisconsin's CS professional development opportunities for teachers. Prior work over the last five years has provided CS Professional Development to over 1,850 K-5 teachers, reaching over 67,000 school children. Careful assessment will allow the team to explore deeper questions about how prior CS exposure effects students later in the CS pathway, why execution of CS initiatives are so unevenly effective in different parts of the city, and how to strengthen and expand a pathway in a dynamic urban school system.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.

威斯康星州面临着越来越不公平的访问计算机科学（CS）的内容在学校。富裕的郊区学校以创纪录的速度增加课程，如CS原则（CSP）。资源较少的学校很少或根本没有CS课程，而且当CS教师被吸引到工业和郊区时，他们的机会就减少了。马奎特大学和学习伙伴关系已经在扩大威斯康星州的CS教师专业发展机会取得了重大进展。过去五年的工作为1，850多名K-5教师提供了CS专业发展，覆盖了67，000多名学童。仔细的评估将使团队能够探索更深层次的问题，如先前的CS暴露如何影响学生以后在CS途径，为什么CS倡议的执行是如此不均匀的有效性在城市的不同地区，以及如何加强和扩大一个充满活力的城市学校系统的途径。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得支持的，通过评估使用基金会的智力价值，更广泛的影响审查标准。