BPC- A: Socially Responsible Computing: Promoting Latinx student retention via community engagement in early CS courses

BPC-A：社会责任计算：通过社区参与早期计算机科学课程来提高拉丁裔学生的保留率

• 批准号: 2216672
• 负责人: Yu Sun
• 金额: $ 20.53万
• 依托单位: Cal Poly Pomona Foundation, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-10-01 至 2025-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2216672&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: BPC; Socially; Responsible; Computing; Promoting

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.

来自加利福尼亚州立大学（CSU）系统的六个校园联盟已团结起来，改变了历史上人数不足的学生的早期计算经验。这个联盟汇集了六个CSU校园，每个校园都有独特的优势和当地挑战：Cal Poly，San Luis Obispo； CSU Dominguez Hills，CSU Fullerton，CSU Los Angeles，Cal Poly，Pomona和San Francisco State University。 该联盟将共同为两千多名本科生服务，他们确定为西班牙裔/拉丁裔（Latinx）。每个校园以比非LATINX学生更高的率失去拉丁裔学生，而在计算机的头两年中，学生损失的比例最大。联盟致力于通过在早期学生计算体验中整合社会负责的计算课程来改变这一趋势。教师学习社区将改变计算文化和课程，以更好地证明计算在满足社区需求中的使用。通过基于项目的学习，这些课程变化将为学生提供与社区联系起来的机会，最终增加了他们在计算中的归属感。该项目将计算机科学教育者团结起来，致力于与具有评估包容性STEM教育的专业知识的社会科学家扩大计算参与，并具有在西班牙裔服务机构工作的培训教师方面的专业知识。该项目着重于开发和评估计算课程和教学法，将公共目标整合到入门计算课程中，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审核过程，以使结果保持一致，同时允许每个站点利用其当地社区的需求和优势，尤其是在以社区为中心的社会负责任计算设计项目干预措施的发展中。 拟议的教师学习社区（FLC）使用培训和持续的会议来实现和支持新的教师，并将项目影响扩大到赠款人员之外。该项目包括研究学生和教师成果的评估，使联盟可以在整个拟议的工作中进行反思和改进。课程变化和相关的评估最终将有助于计算教育的知识基础，而专注于通过教师学习社区改变学科气氛的研究也有助于学习科学。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛的影响来评估CRITERIA CRITERIA CRITERIA的评估，这是值得的。