Secure and Upgrade Computer Science in Classrooms through an Ecosystem with Scalability & Sustainability (SUCCESS)

通过具有可扩展性的生态系统保护和升级课堂中的计算机科学

• 批准号: 2031355
• 负责人: Lynnette Michaluk
• 金额: $ 99.98万
• 依托单位: West Virginia University Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-06-01 至 2025-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2031355&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Secure; Upgrade; Computer; Science; Classrooms

More than 20% of public-school students in the US attend schools in rural districts; however, these schools are less likely to offer computer science (CS) courses than those in suburban areas, contributing to the access divide and disparities in CS participation and achievement by socioeconomic status (SES), race, and gender. One of the primary reasons why integration of CS into the K-12 curriculum remains elusive for rural districts is the lack of educators with CS expertise. Additionally, principals and counselors are often unaware of the importance and prevalence of CS to careers relevant to their communities. The SUCCESS team will address these issues by designing an ecosystem, including district and school level supports, that will ensure that all middle school students in predominantly rural WV have access to high quality CS education and an understanding of CS career opportunities. To reach its goal of increased CS access, SUCCESS will specifically work to increase teacher CS content knowledge, improve principal and counselor understanding of how to support teachers, and spread awareness of CS careers for students, teachers, counselors and principals. Secure and Upgrade Computer Science in Classrooms through an Ecosystem with Scalability & Sustainability (SUCCESS), will build an ecosystem to increase access to Computer Science (CS) and participation of underrepresented West Virginia (WV) middle school students in CS. SUCCESS builds on an established partnership between West Virginia University Center for Excellence in STEM Education (CE-STEM), Code.org (Code WV, in CE-STEM, is their WV Regional partner), the WV Department of Education (WVDE), and the Raleigh County School District to increase CS access by addressing the objectives identified as crucial by practitioners. The goals of this project are to increase: 1) teacher CS content knowledge, 2) principal and counselor understanding of how to support teachers to ensure all students have CS access, and 3) the awareness of CS careers for students, teachers, counselors and principals. The design research partnership approach provides for iteration and improvement of the PD model and other activities based on research, including data and input from SUCCESS partners and the ability to increase the number of educators that the project can serve. SUCCESS will adapt a high-quality existing CS curriculum and PD program to increase awareness of CS in the 16 Career Clusters established by WVBoE, satisfying two state course requirements. A video library supporting the career clusters will be created and all materials made available to all teachers in WV. Other CS training content identified as needed by partners will be created and delivered through the WVDE online system for use by teachers throughout the state toward achieving CS credentials.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.

美国超过 20% 的公立学校学生在农村地区上学；然而，与郊区学校相比，这些学校不太可能提供计算机科学 (CS) 课程，从而造成了社会经济地位 (SES)、种族和性别在计算机科学参与和成就方面的准入鸿沟和差异。对于农村地区来说，将计算机科学纳入 K-12 课程仍然难以实现的主要原因之一是缺乏具有计算机科学专业知识的教育工作者。此外，校长和辅导员往往没有意识到 CS 对于与其社区相关的职业的重要性和普遍性。 SUCCESS 团队将通过设计一个生态系统来解决这些问题，其中包括地区和学校层面的支持，这将确保西弗吉尼亚州主要农村地区的所有中学生都能获得高质量的计算机科学教育并了解计算机科学的职业机会。为了实现增加 CS 机会的目标，SUCCESS 将专门致力于增加教师 CS 内容知识，提高校长和辅导员对如何支持教师的理解，并传播学生、教师、辅导员和校长对 CS 职业的认识。通过具有可扩展性和可持续性的生态系统 (SUCCESS) 保护和升级教室中的计算机科学，将建立一个生态系统，以增加计算机科学 (CS) 的获取机会以及西弗吉尼亚州 (WV) 中学生对计算机科学的参与度。 SUCCESS 建立在西弗吉尼亚大学 STEM 教育卓越中心 (CE-STEM)、Code.org（CE-STEM 中的 Code WV 是其西弗吉尼亚地区合作伙伴）、西弗吉尼亚州教育部 (WVDE) 和罗利县学区之间建立的合作伙伴关系的基础上，通过实现从业者认为至关重要的目标来增加 CS 的获取机会。该项目的目标是提高：1) 教师 CS 内容知识，2) 校长和辅导员了解如何支持教师确保所有学生都能接触到 CS，以及 3) 学生、教师、辅导员和校长对 CS 职业的认识。设计研究合作伙伴方法提供了 PD 模型和其他基于研究的活动的迭代和改进，包括来自 SUCCESS 合作伙伴的数据和输入以及增加该项目可以服务的教育工作者数量的能力。 SUCCESS 将采用高质量的现有 CS 课程和 PD 计划，以提高 WVBoE 建立的 16 个职业集群中的 CS 意识，满足两项州课程要求。将创建一个支持职业集群的视频库，并向西弗吉尼亚州的所有教师提供所有材料。合作伙伴认为需要的其他 CS 培训内容将通过 WVDE 在线系统创建和提供，供全州教师使用以获取 CS 证书。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。