RET Site: Socially Relevant Computing and Analytics

RET 网站：社会相关计算和分析

• 批准号: 2055528
• 负责人: Tiffany Barnes
• 金额: $ 59.89万
• 依托单位: North Carolina State University
• 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: 2021-04-15 至 2025-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2055528&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RET; Site; Socially; Relevant; Computing

This award creates a new Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) site focused on socially relevant computing and analytics at North Carolina State University. Each summer, in-service and pre-service teachers will be recruited and put into research teams with a computer science (CS) graduate student research mentor and a CS research faculty mentor. In this immersive research experience, teachers will learn software tools, human computer interaction, and rapid prototype development as they work with CS researchers to investigate socially relevant problems concerning health, education, and critical infrastructures. Participants will synthesize research projects into problem-based computing assignments for students, integrating equitable practices for computing curricula including providing students the opportunity to represent their culture and ideas into the projects. Through immersing educators in socially relevant computing research, they will have a much better understanding of the impacts of computing and will be better able to relay these concepts to their students and through a focus on equitable curriculum design, we can investigate how well their created projects resonate with female, African American/Black, Hispanic/Latinx students. This Research Experience for Teachers (RET) site at North Carolina State University will focus on socially relevant computing and analytics. In service teachers will be recruited from school districts serving large populations of underrepresented students, and will be placed in teams along with pre-service teachers and computer science graduate students. This Affinity Research Group model will immerse participants in a vibrant community to contribute to ongoing research in socially relevant computing and analytics. Research projects include serious games, interface design, critical infrastructures, novice programming environments, intelligent tutoring systems, machine learning, and data analytics. The RET Site will also work with participants to develop curricular modules linked to their research experiences including workshops on equitable and culturally relevant CS curricula and intensive workshops with peer feedback for development of modules. The site’s objective is to create a collaborative culture, promote individual research contributions, and create culturally responsive and inclusive curricular modules. The intended impact on participating teachers is to increase their CS knowledge, efficacy, research and presentation skills; and to increase retention and engagement of their students. The intended impact on broadening participation of underrepresented groups in CS is to create high levels of student engagement particularly for females, African-Americans/Blacks, Hispanics/Latinx and new knowledge about CS and careers. Plans for academic-year follow-up and outreach activities and dissemination include RET Teams and mentors support teachers in classroom implementation; pre-service teachers observing classes; and two workshops to reinforce pedagogical and research knowledge gained.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.

该奖项在北卡罗来纳州立大学创建了一个新的教师研究体验(RET)网站，专注于与社会相关的计算和分析。每年夏天，在职和职前教师将被招募到研究小组，并由一名计算机科学(CS)研究生研究导师和一名CS研究教师导师组成。在这种身临其境的研究体验中，教师将学习软件工具、人机交互和快速原型开发，同时他们将与CS研究人员合作，调查与健康、教育和关键基础设施有关的社会相关问题。参与者将把研究项目综合成学生基于问题的计算作业，整合计算课程的公平实践，包括为学生提供机会在项目中表达他们的文化和想法。通过让教育工作者沉浸在与社会相关的计算研究中，他们将更好地理解计算的影响，并将能够更好地将这些概念传达给他们的学生，通过关注公平的课程设计，我们可以调查他们创建的项目在女性、非裔美国人/黑人、西班牙裔/拉丁裔学生中的共鸣程度。北卡罗来纳州立大学的教师研究体验(RET)网站将专注于与社会相关的计算和分析。在职教师将从为人数较少的学生提供服务的学区招聘，并将与职前教师和计算机科学研究生一起被安排在团队中。这种亲和力研究小组模式将使参与者沉浸在一个充满活力的社区中，为正在进行的与社会相关的计算和分析研究做出贡献。研究项目包括严肃的游戏、界面设计、关键基础设施、新手编程环境、智能教学系统、机器学习和数据分析。RET网站还将与参与者合作，开发与他们的研究经验相联系的课程单元，包括关于公平和与文化相关的CS课程的讲习班，以及为开发单元而与同行反馈的密集讲习班。该网站的目标是创造一种合作文化，促进个人研究贡献，并创建响应文化和包容性的课程模块。对参与的教师的预期影响是增加他们的CS知识、效能、研究和陈述技能；并增加他们的学生的留住和参与度。对扩大代表不足群体在CS中的参与的预期影响是创造高水平的学生参与度，特别是对于女性、非裔美国人/黑人、西班牙裔/拉丁裔以及关于CS和职业的新知识。学年后续和外展活动和传播计划包括RET团队和导师支持教师在课堂上的实施；入职前教师观课；以及两个研讨会，以加强获得的教学和研究知识。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。

项目成果

A Framework for Socially-Relevant Service-Learning Internship Experiences for High School Students

高中生社会相关服务学习实习经历框架

• DOI: 10.1145/3478431.3499355
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
• 作者: Catete, Veronica;Isvik, Amy;Hill, Marnie
• 通讯作者: Hill, Marnie