Technical Assistance Workshop on Research Practitioner Partnerships for CSforAll:RPP in Atlanta, Georgia

计算机科学正在成为许多专业领域的一部分，从工程到医学再到艺术，一般的计算能力是必要的，以确保安全免受网络安全威胁，并采用技术来支持我们的家人、朋友和社区。我们的教育系统正在对这一变化作出反应，投入大量资源，为所有K-12学生提供学习计算机科学的机会，包括教育研究人员、教师和学校系统管理人员以及政策制定者的努力。为了确保解决方案公平地惠及整个系统，并扩大对K-12计算机科学教育的参与，研究人员-从业者伙伴关系将不同的利益相关者配对，以协调他们的努力，最大限度地提高K-12学生的效率。然而，这些不同的组织通常不会如此密切地合作。因此，他们需要建立自己的知识和技能，以支持研究人员-从业者伙伴关系，以确保他们的成功。该项目将把研究人员-实践者伙伴关系团队聚集在一起举办研讨会，以发展他们的知识和技能。具体地说，研讨会的目标是：1)建议研究人员-从业者伙伴关系团队的组成和目标的模型；2)提供保持有效的研究人员-从业者伙伴关系团队的战略和工具；3)讨论数据收集和分析方法，以支持研究人员-从业者伙伴关系的研究和实施目标；以及4)探讨如何评估影响和扩大对计算机科学教育的参与。为了实现这些目标，该项目将在佐治亚州亚特兰大主办为期1.5天的研究人员-从业者伙伴关系技术援助讲习班。项目团队将邀请从事K-12计算机科学教育项目的研究人员-实践者伙伴团队参加研讨会。他们还将邀请全国知名的演讲者，他们专门建立和维持研究人员-从业者伙伴关系，教育评估和影响，以及领导K-12计算机科学教育的现有伙伴关系，以建立参与者的知识和技能。学员还将有近一半的研讨会时间来扩展他们的团队，在他们的社区进行计算机科学教育的设计和计划。来自亚特兰大地区从事K-12计算机科学教育工作的演讲者和其他促进者将向团队提供指导和反馈。通过将所有这些人聚集在一起，项目组可以有效地收集和传播关于K-12计算机科学教育的信息，公平地扩大对计算机科学教育的参与，包括数据收集和分析的教育研究，研究人员-从业者伙伴关系团队的组成和维护，以及评估和记录研究人员-从业者伙伴关系活动的影响。通过建立研究人员-从业者合作伙伴关系中的知识和技能，该项目团队有助于使计算机科学教育真正为每个K-12学生所用，并扩大对计算的参与。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。

Computer science is becoming part of many professional fields, from engineering to medicine to art, and general computational literacy is necessary to be safe from cybersecurity threats and to adapt technology to support our families, friends, and communities. Our education system is responding to this change by devoting many resources towards giving all K-12 students opportunities to learn computer science, including efforts by education researchers, teachers and administrators of school systems, and policy makers. To ensure that solutions benefit the whole system equitably and broaden participation in K-12 computer science education, researcher-practitioner partnerships pair different stakeholders to align their efforts and maximize efficacy for K-12 students. These various groups, however, typically do not work together so closely. Thus, they need to build their knowledge and skills for supporting a researcher-practitioner partnership to ensure their success. The project will bring researcher-practitioner partnership teams together for a workshop to develop their knowledge and skill. Specifically, the goals of the workshop are to 1) recommend models for researcher-practitioner partnership team composition and goals, 2) provide strategies and tools for maintaining an effective researcher-practitioner partnership team, 3) discuss data collection and analysis methods to support research and implementation goals of researcher-practitioner partnerships, and 4) explore how to evaluate impact and broadening participation in computer science education. To meet these goals, the project will host a 1.5-day Technical Assistance Workshop on Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships in Atlanta, Georgia. The project team will invite researcher-practitioner partnership teams working on K-12 computer science education projects to participate in the workshop. They will also invite nationally renowned speakers who specialize in forming and maintaining researcher-practitioner partnerships, educational evaluation and impact, and leading existing partnerships in K-12 computer science education to build knowledge and skill of participants. Participants will also have nearly half of the workshop time to expand upon their teams designs and plans for computer science education in their communities. Speakers and other facilitators from the Atlanta area who work in K-12 computer science education will provide guidance and feedback to the teams. By gathering all of these people together, the project team can effectively collect and disseminate information about K-12 computer science education, broadening participation in computer science education equitably, educational research including data collection and analysis, researcher-practitioner partnership team composition and maintenance, and evaluating and documenting impact of researcher-practitioner partnership activities. By building the knowledge and skill of those working in researcher-practitioner partnerships, the project team contributes to making computer science education truly accessible to every K-12 student and broaden participation in computing.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.