CUE Ethics: Collaborative Research: Evaluating Frameworks for Incorporating Computing Across the Curriculum

CUE 伦理：协作研究：评估将计算纳入整个课程的框架

• 批准号: 1935113
• 负责人: Valerie Barr
• 金额: $ 14.66万
• 依托单位: Mount Holyoke College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-02-01 至 2022-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1935113&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CUE; Ethics; Collaborative; Research; Evaluating

This award will test pathways for the delivery of computing across the curriculum in the context of undergraduate degrees at residential liberal arts colleges. The project will be organized as a Networked Improvement Community (NIC) that includes faculty from three colleges representing 10 distinct disciplines, as well as the heads of computer science and data science or data analytics at all three institutions. The multi-institutional NIC will provide an important opportunity for the project team to determine the most effective methods for delivering computer science (CS) content and working with non-CS faculty across a range of institutional governance and departmental structural differences. This project addresses the national desire to prepare larger and more diverse student populations for careers in both CS and non-CS fields, including careers in scientific and non-scientific disciplines.Project activities are five-fold. First, the project will identify a set of core computing concepts that should be learned by every student today, particularly those students who are applying computing in non-CS fields. Second, it will rigorously evaluate the relative effectiveness of venues, including curriculum and course structure, for exposing students to the core computing concepts. Third, the project will analyze the kind and extent of preparation, guidance, and support necessary for non-CS faculty to incorporate and teach computing concepts in their courses. Fourth, it will analyze the extent to which the addition of computing concept material impacts student acquisition of disciplinary knowledge in non-CS courses. Lastly, it will analyze the impact on affiliated non-CS faculty with regard to their own teaching and research as they learn more about computing, and work collaboratively with other non-CS faculty on integration of computing into courses. By including fields that are more demographically diverse than CS, the researchers expect to broaden the pool of students who learn about computing and its applications. By integrating ethical considerations into the teaching of core computing concepts from the start, it is expected that students will learn to naturally ask ethical questions as part of their computational problem solving instead of as an afterthought. Finally, the project will develop a guiding document for similar institutions on how to effectively infuse core computing concepts across an institution in a "computing across the curriculum" approach. This IUSE: CUE project is co-funded by the EHR/DUE and all CISE Directorates CNS, CCF, IIS, and OAC, reflecting the project's alignment with the broader goals of the IUSE: EHR program in DUE and complementary programs in CISE.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.

该奖项将测试在住宿文理学院本科学位课程中提供计算机的途径。该项目将以网络改进社区（NIC）的形式组织，包括代表10个不同学科的3所大学的教师，以及所有3所大学的计算机科学和数据科学或数据分析负责人。多机构NIC将为项目团队提供一个重要的机会，以确定提供计算机科学（CS）内容的最有效方法，并在一系列机构治理和部门结构差异中与非CS教师合作。该项目满足了国家为计算机科学和非计算机科学领域（包括科学和非科学学科）的职业生涯准备更多和更多样化的学生群体的愿望。项目活动分为五部分。首先，该项目将确定一组核心计算概念，这些概念应该被今天的每个学生，特别是那些在非计算机科学领域应用计算的学生学习。其次，它将严格评估场所的相对有效性，包括课程和课程结构，以使学生接触核心计算概念。第三，该项目将分析非计算机科学教师在其课程中整合和教授计算机概念所需的准备、指导和支持的种类和程度。第四，分析计算机概念材料的加入对学生在非计算机科学课程中获取学科知识的影响程度。最后，它将分析附属的非计算机科学教师在他们自己的教学和研究方面的影响，因为他们学习了更多的计算知识，并与其他非计算机科学教师合作，将计算整合到课程中。通过纳入比计算机科学更具人口统计学多样性的领域，研究人员希望扩大学习计算机及其应用的学生群体。通过从一开始就将伦理考虑融入核心计算概念的教学中，期望学生将学会自然地提出伦理问题，作为解决计算问题的一部分，而不是作为事后的想法。最后，该项目将为类似的机构制定一份指导性文件，说明如何以“跨课程计算”的方式在整个机构内有效地灌输核心计算概念。IUSE: CUE项目由EHR/DUE和CISE所有理事会CNS、CCF、IIS和OAC共同资助，反映了该项目与DUE的IUSE: EHR项目和CISE的补充项目的更广泛目标的一致性。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。