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，改变了历史上在计算方面代表性不足的学生的早期计算经验。该联盟汇集了CSU的六个校区，每个校区都具有独特的优势和当地的挑战：加州理工学院、圣路易斯奥比斯波; CSU多明格斯山分校、CSU富勒顿分校、CSU洛杉矶分校、加州理工学院、波莫纳分校和旧金山弗朗西斯科州立大学。 该联盟将共同为2000多名西班牙裔/拉丁裔（拉丁裔）的计算机本科生提供服务。每个校区的拉丁裔学生流失率都高于非拉丁裔学生，其中前两年流失的学生比例最大。该联盟致力于通过将社会责任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中的应用。通过基于项目的学习，这些课程的变化将为学生提供机会，将计算与他们的社区联系起来，最终增加他们对计算的归属感。该项目将致力于扩大参与计算的计算机科学教育工作者与具有评估包容性STEM教育专业知识和培训西班牙裔服务机构教师专业知识的社会科学家联合起来。该项目的重点是开发和评估计算课程和教学法，将社区目标融入入门计算课程，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过程，以调整结果，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措施。 拟议的教师学习社区（FLC）使用培训和持续的会议，以指导和支持新的教师和扩大项目的影响超越赠款人员。该项目包括评估，检查学生和教师的成果，使联盟反映和改善整个拟议的工作。课程的变化和相关的评估将最终有助于计算机教育的知识基础，而研究重点是改变学科气候与教师学习社区也有助于学习science.This奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。