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Building Capacity in Computer Science Education and Student Near Peer Classroom Mentorship

计算机科学教育和学生同伴课堂辅导的能力建设

基本信息

批准号：
2031455
负责人：
Clifford Freeman
金额：
$ 99.57万
依托单位：
Young People's Project, Inc.
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：
2021-01-01 至 2024-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2031455&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Building Capacity Computer Science Education

项目摘要

Computation has become standard within professional scientific, engineering, and mathematical disciplines, even serving to connect people across fields for interdisciplinary work. Yet despite decades-long efforts to broaden participation, the underrepresentation of people from communities of color persists in computer science. The reasons for this are profoundly complex. In addition to inequitable access to learning opportunities, computer science education often assumes assimilation to the culture and practices of the discipline, without considering students’ social, cultural, and intellectual resources. This deficit framing, as if people’s lives have nothing to offer computer science, serves to further marginalize students from groups already underrepresented in computing. This project from the Young People’s Project, Inc. aims to address these issues through a professional development program designed on culturally relevant pedagogy and integration of computer science into mathematics classrooms. This work builds on an established near-peer model developed by YPP’s Algebra Project and the integrative curricular strategy of Bootstrap. The project has the potential to build the computer science teaching capacity in Boston Public Schools, and to test a model of computer science teaching that is responsive to the needs of students from groups underrepresented in computing.Building Capacity in Computer Science Education and Student Near Peer Classroom Mentorship is a Researcher-Practitioner Partnership (RPP) collaboration between The Young People’s Project (YPP), Boston Public Schools (BPS), Bootstrap, and Boston University. It aims to increase the number of high school computer science teachers by designing, evaluating, and iterating on a professional development model that uses culturally relevant pedagogy and integration into mathematics classrooms. The goal of this project is to provide professional development for BPS teachers that uses a classroom model of instruction developed by YPP, the Algebra Project, and Bootstrap and integrates CS into existing 9th grade mathematics classrooms. The project promises to build the computer science teaching capacity in BPS, and to test a model of computer science (CS) teaching that is responsive to the needs of students from racial/ethnic groups underrepresented in CS. Greater capacity will include providing learning opportunities for BPS teachers currently teaching Algebra or other entry level mathematics courses in high schools as well as an infusion of college students who work as learners and educators alongside classroom teachers. The infusion of college students, YPP’s Model of Excellence, and a discourse-based curriculum supports a culturally relevant approach to CS learning that can provide entry points for a target population of students not currently offered computer science education in BPS. To develop teachers’ capacity for CS teaching and leadership, the project will build an effective research practice partnership that includes a designed based implementation research process focused on the design and impact of the professional learning opportunity for teachers.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.

计算已经成为专业科学、工程和数学学科的标准，甚至可以将跨领域的人们联系起来进行跨学科的工作。然而，尽管数十年来一直在努力扩大参与，但计算机科学中有色人种的代表性仍然不足。其原因极为复杂。除了不公平的学习机会，计算机科学教育往往假设同化的文化和学科的做法，而不考虑学生的社会，文化和智力资源。这种赤字框架，好像人们的生活没有什么提供计算机科学，服务于进一步边缘化的学生群体已经在计算代表性不足。这个项目由青年人项目公司（Young People's Project，Inc.）旨在通过专业发展计划解决这些问题，该计划旨在将文化相关的教学法和计算机科学融入数学课堂。这项工作建立在一个既定的近同行模型开发的YPP的代数项目和Bootstrap的综合课程策略。该项目有可能在波士顿公立学校建立计算机科学教学能力，并测试计算机科学教学模式，以满足来自计算代表性不足的群体的学生的需求。计算机科学教育能力建设和学生近同伴课堂导师制是青年人项目（YPP），波士顿公立学校（BPS），Bootstrap和波士顿大学。它旨在通过设计，评估和迭代使用文化相关的教学法和融入数学课堂的专业发展模式来增加高中计算机科学教师的数量。该项目的目标是为BPS教师提供专业发展，该教师使用YPP，代数项目和Bootstrap开发的课堂教学模式，并将CS集成到现有的9年级数学课堂中。该项目承诺建立BPS的计算机科学教学能力，并测试计算机科学（CS）教学模式，以满足来自CS中代表性不足的种族/族裔群体的学生的需求。更大的能力将包括为目前在高中教授代数或其他入门级数学课程的BPS教师提供学习机会，以及注入作为学习者和教育者与课堂教师一起工作的大学生。大学生的注入，YPP的卓越模式，和基于话语的课程支持CS学习的文化相关的方法，可以为目标人群的学生目前没有提供BPS计算机科学教育的切入点。为了培养教师的计算机科学教学和领导能力，该项目将建立一个有效的研究实践伙伴关系，其中包括一个设计为基础的实施研究过程，重点是设计和影响的专业学习机会的教师。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准的支持。