BPC Alliance: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in Early Computing: Promoting Latinx student retention via community engagement

由加州州立大学(CSU)系统的六个校区组成的联盟联合起来，改变了过去在计算领域代表性不足的学生的早期计算体验。这一联盟汇集了六个密歇根州立大学校区，每个校区都有独特的优势和当地的挑战：加州大学保利分校、圣路易斯·奥比斯波分校、密歇根州立大学多明格斯山庄分校、加州大学富勒顿分校、加州大学洛杉矶分校、加州大学保利分校、波莫纳分校和旧金山州立大学。该联盟将共同为2000多名计算机专业本科生提供服务，他们认为自己是拉美裔/拉丁裔(Latinx)。每个校区的拉丁裔学生的流失率都高于非拉丁裔学生，其中在计算机课程的头两年流失的学生比例最大。该联盟致力于通过将对社会负责的计算课程整合到早期学生的计算体验中来改变这一趋势。教师学习社区将改变计算文化和课程，以更好地展示计算在满足社区需求方面的使用。通过基于项目的学习，这些课程改革将为学生提供将计算与他们的社区联系起来的机会，最终增加他们对计算的归属感。该项目将致力于扩大计算参与的计算机科学教育工作者与社会科学家团结在一起，社会科学家拥有评估包容性STEM教育的专业知识，并拥有培训在拉美裔服务机构工作的教师的专业知识。该项目的重点是开发和评估计算机课程和教学方法，将共同目标纳入计算机入门课程，并促进对社会负责的计算。这种跨站点协作使用集体影响模型来支持我们的共同愿景，同时允许站点差异。该项目包括一个课程同行评审程序，以协调结果，同时允许每个站点利用其当地社区的需求和优势，特别是在开发以社区为重点的社会责任计算设计项目干预方面。拟议的教师学习社区(FLC)使用培训和持续会议来指导和支持新教师，并将项目影响扩大到资助人员之外。该项目包括检查学生和教师成绩的评估，使联盟能够在整个拟议的工作中反映和改进。课程的变化和相关的评估最终将有助于计算机教育的知识库，而专注于改变与教师学习社区的学科氛围的研究也有助于学习科学。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。

An alliance of six campuses from the California State University (CSU) system have united to transform the early computing experience of students historically underrepresented in computing. This alliance brings together six CSU campuses, each with unique strengths and local challenges: Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo; CSU Dominguez Hills, CSU Fullerton, CSU Los Angeles, Cal Poly, Pomona, and San Francisco State University. Together the alliance will serve over two thousand undergraduate students in computing who identify as Hispanic/Latino (Latinx). Each campus loses Latinx students at a higher rate than non-Latinx students, with the largest percentage of students lost in the first two years of computing. The alliance is committed to changing this trend by integrating socially responsible computing curriculum in early student computing experiences. Faculty learning communities will transform computing culture and curriculum to better demonstrate the use of computing in addressing community needs. Through project-based learning, these curricular changes will provide the opportunity for students to connect computing with their communities, ultimately increasing their sense of belonging in computing. This project unites computer science educators committed to broadening participation in computing with social scientists with expertise in evaluating inclusive STEM education and with expertise in training faculty working at Hispanic-Serving Institutions. This project focuses on developing and evaluating computing curriculum and pedagogy that integrates communal goals into introductory computing courses and promotes socially responsible computing. This cross-site collaboration uses a collective impact model to support our shared vision while allowing for site variances. The project includes a curricular peer review process to align outcomes while allowing each site to leverage its local community needs and strengths, particularly in the development of the community-focused socially responsible computing design project intervention. The proposed faculty learning community (FLC) uses training and ongoing meetings to orient and support new instructors and expand the project impact beyond the grant personnel. This project includes evaluation that examines both student and faculty outcomes, allowing the alliance to reflect and improve throughout the proposed work. The curricular changes and associated evaluation will ultimately contribute to the knowledge base of computing education, while the research focused on changing the discipline climate with faculty learning communities also contributes to learning sciences.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.