BPC-AE Collaborative Research: Researching Equity and Antiracist Learning in CS (REAL-CS)

BPC-AE 合作研究：研究计算机科学中的公平性和反种族主义学习 (REAL-CS)

• 批准号: 2137956
• 负责人: Jean Ryoo
• 金额: $ 102.6万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2137956&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: BPC; AE; Collaborative; Research; Researching

The University of Oregon, in collaboration with the University of California-Los Angeles, will extend the REAL-CS BPC Alliance to address the historical and current racial and gender disparities in participation in high school computer science education. With a focus on broadening participation for Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Pacific Islander students, using a lens of intersectionality, the project's reach into addressing systemic barriers in high school computer science (CS) education will impact thousands of students, teachers, and administrators in US public high schools. REAL-CS will support and sustain the equity-focused and research-based Exploring Computer Science (ECS) program. In collaboration with regional and state partner programs, REAL-CS will prepare 250 ECS teachers per year. The Alliance will also support 32 experienced ECS teachers through advanced professional development and an additional 30 ECS teacher leaders as part of the ECS national facilitator workshop. In total, REAL-CS will reach approximately 20,000 high school students who will have the opportunity to take an equity-focused CS course from highly prepared teachers. Further, a curricular refresh will be shared online and freely available, to be used by an estimated 3,500 current ECS teachers nationwide. Additionally, an administrator guide will be freely available on the project website, and the deep-dive professional development series will train 40 administrators across the US in collaboration with Alliance partners. Finally, research across the teacher, administrator, and student perspectives of this Alliance will not only inform internally-created programs, but also be disseminated across other Alliances and CS projects nationwide to ensure that youth voice and educator experiences inform the creation and implementation of CS initiatives. Overall, the key goal of REAL-CS is to create the necessary conditions and capacity in high schools that lead to equitable participation of students of color in high-quality computer science classes. This BPC Alliance Extension supports a BPC mission to challenge colorblind notions of building capacity in schools through antiracist approaches that disrupt and address systemic racism in high school computer science (CS). Our Extension will deepen the Alliance's programs and scholarship to address systemic inequities in CS education with three key groups of participants central to the high school CS educational ecosystem: teachers, administrators, and students. Through the nationwide Exploring Computer Science (ECS) program, the project team will further expand curricular resources, professional development offerings to onboard new teachers to teach ECS, and add on new professional learning opportunities for experienced ECS teachers on emerging computing topics, such as the new Artificial Intelligence unit. All curricular developments and teacher learning workshops will include instructional designs that focus on inquiry, equity, and computing concepts, while expanding understanding of antiracism and how to put those principles into practice. The project will continue to investigate the role administrators can play in supporting teachers who are working to broaden participation in computing in their classrooms through identifying and addressing systemic barriers at their school sites. Along with research queries that will examine the efficacy of these efforts in fostering teacher and administrator learning around equity and computing, the project team will also further their line of student voice research to amplify the voices of students in CS education who have been the most marginalized. By extending our constellation of Alliance programs to infuse antiracist design principles and pedagogy in ECS professional development, curricular resources, and research, this work will have nationwide impacts on curricula, professional development agendas, evaluation metrics, antiracist CS education research, and other cohesive resources that support ECS programs. The REAL-CS Alliance Extension will collectively create systemic change by: 1) increasing CS educator and school administrator knowledge, capacity, and use of racially and culturally inclusive practices; 2) refreshing existing ECS curriculum and supplementary curricular materials with antiracist design tenets; 3) conducting deep qualitative research across the US that investigates equity-oriented teacher beliefs and practices, administrator beliefs and practices, and the impact of CS learning experiences from student perspectives. Both programmatic and research efforts from this project will contribute to the broader educational community’s understanding of how to center antiracism in BPC agendas.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.

俄勒冈大学与加州大学洛杉矶分校合作，将扩展Real-CS BPC联盟，以解决参与高中计算机科学教育的历史和当前的种族和性别分布。侧重于扩大黑人，土著，拉丁裔和太平洋岛民的学生的参与，使用镜头镜头，该项目的范围可以解决高中计算机科学（CS）教育的系统性障碍，将影响数千名学生，老师和美国公立高中的管理者。 Real-CS将支持和维持以股票为中心的探索计算机科学（ECS）计划。与区域和州合作伙伴计划合作，Real-CS每年将准备250名EC教师。该联盟还将通过高级专业发展和另外30位ECS教师领导者作为ECS国家主持人研讨会的一部分来支持32位经验丰富的ECS教师。总体而言，Real-CS将吸引大约20,000名高中生，他们将有机会从备受准备的老师那里获得同等注重的CS课程。此外，当前的刷新将在线共享并免费提供，估计在全国范围内有3500名ECS教师使用。此外，管理员指南将在项目网站上免费提供，而深度参与专业发展系列将与Alliance Partners合作培训40位美国管理员。最后，对这个联盟的教师，管理员和学生的观点进行的研究不仅将为内部创建的计划提供信息，而且在全国其他联盟和CS项目中进行了传播，以确保青年声音和教育工作经验为CS计划的创建和实施提供了信息。总体而言，Real-CS的关键目标是在高中创建必要的条件和能力，从而导致有色学生在高质量的计算机科学课程中公平参与。 BPC联盟扩展名支持了BPC的使命，该使命是通过破坏和解决高中计算机科学（CS）中系统性种族主义的学校方法来挑战学校建筑能力的音符。我们的扩展将加深联盟的计划和科学，以解决CS教育中的系统性不平等，与高中CS教育生态系统中心的三个关键参与者组合：教师，管理人员和学生。通过全国探索计算机科学（ECS）计划，项目团队将进一步扩大现代资源，专业发展提供了新的教师，以教授ECS，并为有经验的ECS老师增加新的专业学习机会，以了解新兴的计算主题，例如新的人工智能部门。所有课程的发展和教师学习研讨会都将包括着眼于查询，公平和计算概念的教学设计，同时扩大对抗生素的理解以及如何将这些原则付诸实践。该项目将继续调查管理人员可以通过识别和解决学校网站的系统性障碍来扩大参与计算的教师的角色。除了研究这些努力在培养围绕公平和计算的教师学习方面的效率的研究询问外，项目团队还将进一步进一步扩大学生语音研究线，以扩大最边缘化的CS教育中学生的声音。通过扩展我们的联盟计划，以在ECS专业发展，课程资源和研究中注入反种族主义设计原理和教学法，这项工作将对课程，专业发展议程，评估指标，反种族主义CS教育研究以及其他支持ECS计划的凝聚力资源产生全国影响。实际CS联盟扩展将通过以下方式共同创造系统性变化：1）增加CS教育者和学校管理员的知识，能力以及对种族和文化包容性实践的使用； 2）刷新现有的ECS课程和补充课程材料，具有反种族主义设计宗旨； 3）在整个美国进行深入的定性研究，研究以股权为导向的教师信念和实践，管理员的信念和实践以及CS学习经验的影响。该项目的程序化和研究工作都将有助于更广泛的教育社区对如何将反种族主义集中在BPC议程中的理解。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并且是否通过基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响标准通过评估我们被评估诚实地诚实地支持。