Advancing Research and Practice in Culturally-Relevant Computing in Upper Elementary Education

推进小学高年级文化相关计算的研究和实践

• 批准号: 2122874
• 负责人: Daniel Hoffman
• 金额: $ 99.66万
• 依托单位: University of Hawaii
• 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: 2021-08-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2122874&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Advancing; Research; Practice; Culturally; Relevant

This project is motivated by the need to prepare elementary teachers to effectively integrate Computer Science (CS) education into their teaching. To address this need, this project will provide professional development focused on culturally-relevant computing. Culturally-relevant computing values explicit connections between students’ home cultures and the concepts and practices of CS. Research has shown that culturally-relevant pedagogies help students from marginalized communities succeed in a variety of fields including STEM-related areas. Accordingly, the project's basis is that a sustained culturally-relevant computing professional development program will be an effective way to prepare educators to reliably produce valued CS and culture-based outcomes. The work will be done by a partnership between faculty and staff at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM) and the Hawaiʻi State Department of Education (HIDOE). The project will directly address concerns about the need to prepare teachers to integrate CS into their teaching while simultaneously promoting Hawaiʻi’s unique place, history, culture, and language. The project’s practical and theoretical outputs regarding culturally-relevant computing and its pedagogical implications will be applicable to other cultures and contexts interested in equity and diversity.With the goal of better understanding the role of culturally-relevant computing in supporting CS education, this research-practitioner partnership will provide professional development to upper elementary (grades 4 - 6) educators (n = 230) in Hawaiʻi. Specifically, the project pursues practice and research objectives aligned with calls to broaden participation in CS, better understand pedagogical factors supporting effective CS education, and examine how CS education can promote CS and culture-based education outcomes. The practice objectives of the project include: 1) developing culturally-relevant computing modules, 2) implementing a professional development program about culturally-relevant computing, and 3) forming a professional learning community about culturally-relevant computing. The project’s research objectives will advance the field’s theoretical and practical understanding of how culturally-relevant computing impacts educators’ knowledge and beliefs about (a) the subject of CS, (b) their ability to teach CS, and (c) the relationship between CS and culture-based outcomes. Methodologically, the project will follow a design-based research process coupled with an explanatory sequential mixed-methods design. Taken together, this project will help researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers, better understand how culturally-relevant (sustaining) pedagogy can be leveraged to increase diversity, equity and inclusion in STEM-related fields such as CS.This project is funded through the CS for All: Research and RPPs programThis 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.

这个项目的动机是需要准备小学教师有效地将计算机科学（CS）教育融入他们的教学。为了满足这一需求，该项目将提供以文化相关计算为重点的专业发展。文化相关计算重视学生家庭文化与计算机科学的概念和实践之间的明确联系。研究表明，与文化相关的教学法可以帮助来自边缘社区的学生在包括stem相关领域在内的各个领域取得成功。因此，该项目的基础是，一个持续的与文化相关的计算机专业发展计划将是一种有效的方式，使教育工作者能够可靠地产生有价值的计算机科学和基于文化的成果。这项工作将由夏威夷夏威夷大学（网址：Mānoa）和夏威夷夏威夷州教育部（HIDOE）的教职员工合作完成。该项目将直接解决教师如何将计算机科学融入教学的问题，同时推广夏威夷独特的地理位置、历史、文化和语言。该项目关于与文化相关的计算及其教学意义的实践和理论成果将适用于对公平和多样性感兴趣的其他文化和背景。为了更好地理解与文化相关的计算机在支持计算机科学教育中的作用，这项研究-实践伙伴关系将为夏威夷夏威夷的小学高年级（4 - 6年级）教育工作者（n = 230）提供专业发展。具体而言，该项目追求的实践和研究目标与扩大计算机科学参与的呼吁一致，更好地理解支持有效计算机科学教育的教学因素，并研究计算机科学教育如何促进计算机科学和基于文化的教育成果。该项目的实践目标包括：1)开发与文化相关的计算模块；2)实施与文化相关的计算专业发展计划；3)形成与文化相关的计算专业学习社区。该项目的研究目标将促进该领域对文化相关计算如何影响教育者对以下方面的知识和信念的理论和实践理解：(a)计算机科学主题，(b)他们教授计算机科学的能力，以及(c)计算机科学与基于文化的成果之间的关系。在方法上，该项目将遵循基于设计的研究过程，并结合解释性顺序混合方法设计。总而言之，该项目将帮助研究人员、从业者和政策制定者更好地理解如何利用文化相关（可持续）教学法来增加CS等stem相关领域的多样性、公平性和包容性。该项目由CS for All: Research and RPPs项目资助。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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

Teachers’ Perspectives on Culturally-Relevant Computing: Principles and Processes

教师对文化相关计算的看法：原则和过程

• DOI: 10.1007/s11528-022-00733-w
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: TechTrends
• 影响因子: 2.5
• 作者: Hoffman, Daniel L.;Leong, Peter;Ka’aloa, Rochelle Piʻilani;Paek, Seungoh
• 通讯作者: Paek, Seungoh

Advancing Culturally-Relevant Computing through a Researcher-Practitioner Partnership

通过研究人员与从业人员的合作推进文化相关计算

• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Proceedings of EdMedia + Innovate Learning
• 作者: Hoffman, D. L.;Paek, S.;Leong, P.;Ka'aloa, R.
• 通讯作者: Ka'aloa, R.

What do CS teachers think about Culturally-Relevant Computing?

计算机科学教师对文化相关计算有何看法？

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Proceedings of EdMedia + Innovate Learning
• 作者: Hoffman, D. L.;Leong, P.;Ka'aloa, R. P.;Paek, S.
• 通讯作者: Paek, S.