NSF INCLUDES Alliance: The Alliance for Identity-Inclusive Computing Education (AIICE): A Collective Impact Approach to Broadening Participation in Computing

NSF 包括联盟：身份包容性计算教育联盟 (AIICE)：扩大计算参与的集体影响方法

• 批准号: 2118453
• 负责人: Alicia Washington
• 金额: $ 996.59万
• 依托单位: Duke University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-01 至 2027-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2118453&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; INCLUDES; Alliance; Identity; Inclusive

While nationwide enrollment in undergraduate computing programs continues to increase, computer science (CS) is still overwhelmingly dominated by white and Asian, able-bodied, middle to upper class, cisgender men. Effects of this lack of diversity are evident in academic/workplace cultures and biased/harmful technologies (e.g., facial recognition, predictive policing, public services decisions, healthcare, and financial software) that negatively impact and exclude non-dominant identities. Despite this, identity (as defined in social science) is rarely, if ever, included in CS curricula, pedagogy, research, and policies. As computing becomes more ubiquitous, it is imperative that technology creators from a diverse range of identities are in development and leadership positions to ensure that harmful technologies are avoided. This requires creating academic cultures in computing that emphasize the importance of identity, its societal impacts, and the impacts of technology on people from non-dominant identities. The Alliance for Identity-Inclusive Computing Education (AIICE) aims to increase the entry, retention, and course/degree completion rates of high-school and undergraduate students from groups that are historically underrepresented in computing through evidence-based, identity-inclusive interventions. AIICE’s collective impact approach to broadening participation convenes national leaders in K-16 CS education to transform high-school and postsecondary CS education using innovative strategies that target the people (educators), policies [state (K-12) and institutional (postsecondary) policies, as well as postsecondary accreditation criteria], and practices (classroom/department cultures) that directly impact student entry, retention, and course/degree completion.AIICE is founded upon evidence that student-focused (and often deficit-based) strategies do not adequately address institutional cultures, policies, and practices that have marginalized people from non-dominant identities. AIICE will collectively create systemic change by blending aspects of social science with CS to 1) increase CS student and educator knowledge and use of identity and related topics, 2) support CS educators and leaders in fostering academic cultures that are more inclusive of non-dominant identities, and 3) increase K-16 policy-driven changes to CS education that infuse identity-inclusive strategies. The Alliance leverages the constellation model for assembling diverse partners to solve complex and pressing social problems through a common agenda, shared measurement system, mutually reinforcing activities, continuous communication, and dedicated backbone support. Each Alliance domain (training, curricula & pedagogy, research, and policy) represents a permeable, action-focused working group (constellation) comprised of various activities at the high-school and postsecondary levels. This flexible structure supports governance and communication that leverages the strengths of each organization and allows for several ways to join, support, and scale the Alliance at the individual, department, and organization levels. Successful implementation of the Alliance will directly impact a total of 7,000 high-school CS teachers, 2,000 postsecondary CS faculty/staff, 5,000 teaching assistants, and 500 U.S. computing departments. This will, in turn, impact a total of 525,000 high-school and 35,000 undergraduate CS students nationwide. AIICE will also directly impact industry diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, as better-trained graduates will enter technical positions more aware of identity-related issues during development, properly advocate for and implement change, and decrease the development of harmful technologies. This effort will also increase the number of computing departments implementing identity-related interventions, as well as create new annual data and reports on identity-inclusive computing (including a repository of resources and best practices).This NSF INCLUDES Alliance is funded by NSF Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES), a comprehensive national initiative to enhance U.S. leadership in discoveries and innovations by focusing on diversity, inclusion and broadening participation in STEM at scale, with co-funding from the CS for All program and the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering.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.

虽然全国范围内的本科计算机课程入学人数继续增加，但计算机科学（CS）仍然以白色和亚洲人为主，身体健全，中上层阶级，顺性别男性。这种缺乏多样性的影响在学术/工作场所文化和有偏见/有害的技术（例如，面部识别、预测性警务、公共服务决策、医疗保健和金融软件），对非主导身份产生负面影响并将其排除在外。尽管如此，身份（在社会科学定义）很少，如果有的话，包括在CS课程，教学法，研究和政策。随着计算变得越来越普遍，来自不同身份的技术创造者必须处于开发和领导地位，以确保避免有害技术。这就需要在计算机领域创造学术文化，强调身份的重要性，其社会影响，以及技术对非主导身份的人的影响。身份包容性计算教育联盟（AIICE）旨在通过基于证据的身份包容性干预措施，提高高中和本科生的入学率，保留率和课程/学位完成率，这些学生来自历史上在计算方面代表性不足的群体。AIICE扩大参与的集体影响方法召集K-16 CS教育的国家领导人，使用针对人民的创新战略来改变高中和中学后CS教育（教育工作者），政策[国家（K-12）和机构（专上教育）政策，以及专上教育评审准则]，以及做法（教室/部门文化），直接影响学生入学，保留和课程/学位完成。AIICE是建立在证据表明，以学生为中心，（而且往往是基于缺陷的）战略没有充分解决使人们从非主导身份边缘化的体制文化、政策和做法。AIICE将通过将社会科学与CS的各个方面融合在一起，共同创造系统性的变革，以1）增加CS学生和教育工作者对身份和相关主题的知识和使用，2）支持CS教育工作者和领导者培养更加包容非主导身份的学术文化，3）增加K-16政策驱动的CS教育变革，注入身份包容性战略。该联盟利用星座模型，通过共同的议程、共享的衡量系统、相互加强的活动、持续的沟通和专门的骨干支持，将不同的合作伙伴聚集在一起，解决复杂而紧迫的社会问题。联盟的每个领域（培训、课程教学法、研究和政策）都是一个具有渗透性、注重行动的工作组（星座），由高中和中学后各级的各种活动组成。这种灵活的结构支持管理和沟通，充分利用每个组织的优势，并允许通过多种方式在个人、部门和组织层面加入、支持和扩展联盟。该联盟的成功实施将直接影响7,000名高中计算机教师，2,000名中学后计算机教师/工作人员，5,000名教学助理和500个美国计算机部门。这将反过来影响全国525，000名高中和35，000名本科CS学生。AIICE还将直接影响行业多样性，公平和包容性的努力，因为受过更好培训的毕业生将进入技术岗位，在发展过程中更了解与身份相关的问题，适当地倡导和实施变革，并减少有害技术的发展。这一努力还将增加实施与身份有关的干预措施的计算部门的数量，并创建关于包容身份的计算的新的年度数据和报告（包括资源和最佳实践的存储库）。这个NSF INCLUDES联盟由NSF Inclusion资助，该联盟遍布工程和科学领域代表性不足的发现者的学习者社区（NSF INCLUDES）是一项综合性的国家倡议，旨在通过关注多样性，包容性和扩大STEM的参与来加强美国在发现和创新方面的领导地位，与Co-该奖项由计算机科学与信息科学与工程理事会和计算机科学与信息工程理事会资助。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，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，认为值得支持。

项目成果

Experiences Piloting a Diversity and Inclusion in Computing Innovations Course

计算创新课程的多样性和包容性试点经验

• DOI: 10.1145/3545945.3569773
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: SIGCSE 2023: Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
• 作者: Kong, Minji;Pollock, Lori
• 通讯作者: Pollock, Lori

Designed to Disrupt: A Novel Course for Improving the Cultural Competence of Undergraduate Computing Students

旨在颠覆：提高计算机本科生文化能力的新颖课程

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: ASEE Annual Conference proceedings
• 作者: Washington, A.N.

Challenges, Choice, & Change: Experiences and Reflections from the First Semester of a Technology and Human Futures Course

挑战、选择、

• DOI: 10.1145/3545945.3569872
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: SIGCSE 2023: Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
• 作者: Bettin, Briana

Work in Progress: A Novel Professional Development Program for Addressing Systemic Barriers to Computing Participation.

正在进行的工作：一项新颖的专业发展计划，旨在解决计算参与的系统性障碍。

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: ASEE Annual Conference proceedings
• 作者: Sadler, C.

Identity-Inclusive Computing: Learning from the Past; Preparing for the Future

包含身份的计算：汲取过去的教训；

• DOI: 10.1145/3478432.3499172
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: ACM SIGCSE 2022
• 作者: Washington, Alicia Nicki;Daily, Shaundra;Sadler, Cecilé
• 通讯作者: Sadler, Cecilé