Medium RPP, High School Strand: Collaborative Research: AccesCSforAll: Making High School Computer Science Accessible

华盛顿大学和内华达州拉斯维加斯大学将合作开展全民计算机学习计划，目标是让更多的K-12残疾学生参加计算机课程。CS for All计划必须解决根据《残疾人教育法》（IDEA）或《康复法》第504条被确定为残疾的约900万名K-12学生。这些学生应该有机会获得高质量的计算机科学教育，但他们的参与往往存在重大障碍。其中一些障碍包括无法获得工具和课程。在该团队以前的工作基础上，开发AP计算机科学原理（CSP）的无障碍版本，并领导专门从事残疾学生的教师的专业发展，CSCSforAll将开发新的工具和课程，可供各种开发和课程提供商采用。此外，CSCSforAll还将扩大其研究者实践者伙伴关系（RPP），以包括CS课程提供者，在职和职前提供者以及支持K-12 CS教师的组织。这种伙伴关系将导致在全国计算机科学教学中采用更容易获得的工具和课程。该项目包括与K-12学生无障碍工具和课程开发人员建立伙伴关系，并将作为CS教师的国家资源，帮助他们更好地将残疾学生纳入课堂。它将创建和部署一个适合年龄的可访问的基于块的编程环境，称为Quorum Blocks。Quorum Blocks将允许学生以块模式或文本模式进行编码。课程提供者和教师可以将其嵌入自己设计的任何课程。因此，该项目的主要目标是扩大过去的努力，使计算机科学课程公平，并欢迎所有学生在美国。这一扩展将努力覆盖约16%的残疾高中生。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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来支持。

The University of Washington and the University of Nevada Las Vegas will collaborate on AccessCSforAll with the goal of including more K-12 students with disabilities in computing classes. The CS for All initiative must address the approximately nine million K-12 students who are identified as having a disability under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) or Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. These students should have access to quality computer science education, but there are often significant barriers to their participation. Some of these barriers include inaccessible tools and curriculum. Building on the team's previous work with developing an accessible version of AP Computer Science Principles (CSP) and leading the professional development for teachers who specialize in students with disabilities, AccessCSforAll will develop new tools and curricula that can be adopted by a variety of development and curriculum providers. In addition, AccessCSforAll will extend its researcher practitioner partnership (RPP) to include CS curriculum providers, in-service and pre-service providers, and organizations that support K-12 CS teachers. This partnership will lead to the adoption of more accessible tools and curricula in the teaching of computer science nationally. This project includes partnerships with developers of accessible tools and curricula for K-12 students and will work as a national resource for CS teachers to help them better include students with disabilities in their classes. It will create and deploy an age appropriate accessible blocks-based programming environment for the web called Quorum Blocks. Quorum Blocks will allow students to code accessibly in blocks mode or text mode. Curriculum providers and teachers can embed it into any curriculum of their own design. The primary goal of the project is thus to scale up past efforts to make computer science classes equitable and welcoming to all students in the United States. This expansion will work towards reaching the approximately 16% of high school students who have a disability. AccessCSforAll represents one of the first comprehensive steps to provide that scaling up to include these students in computer science.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.