Beyond Access and Participation in CSforAll: Measuring Equitable CS Learning Environments.

有必要扩大对计算机科学的参与和参与，特别是那些代表性不足的学生，包括女孩、黑人或拉丁裔学生、残疾学生、低收入学生、英语学习者和生活在农村社区的学生。随着学校、学区和研究人员朝着这一目标努力，他们需要工具来衡量计算机科学教学和学习的新方法如何支持所有学生的成功。该项目的目标是开发工具，收集有关教师和学生在计算机科学学习方面的经验信息。该项目特别关注解决计算机科学系统和结构障碍的教学方法，并通过让学生参与与他们的经历和身份相关的学习来增强他们的能力。该项目将创建和验证工具，以衡量初中和高中课堂上的计算机科学文化响应性教育。文化响应和持续的教育体验应该肯定学生的多重身份，赋予学生作为技术用户和创造者的权力，并支持他们在计算机科学方面的学习、成长和成就。要开发的工具包括教师调查、学生调查和课堂观察工具。它们将与一个以社区为基础的教师、学生和家长工作组合作设计，并由一个文化响应教学法和教育研究专家咨询委员会指导。该项目将以先前设计的工具为基础，创建专门针对计算机科学教育的工具，然后通过专家评审、认知访谈和在少数教室进行试点进行测试。基于这些发现，将对这些工具进行改进和实地测试，以探索实施文化响应性维持教育是否与提高学生在计算机科学方面的成绩有关。该项目由“面向学生和教师的创新技术体验”（ITEST）项目资助，该项目支持有助于提高学生对科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）以及信息和通信技术（ICT）职业的知识和兴趣的实践、项目要素、背景和过程的理解。该项目也通过CS for All: Research and RPPs计划获得资助。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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，被认为值得支持。

There is a need to broaden participation and engagement in computer science, particularly for students who are underrepresented including girls, students who are Black or Latinx, students with disabilities, low-income students, English language learners, and students living in rural communities. As schools, districts, and researchers work toward this goal, they need tools to measure how new approaches to teaching and learning computer science are supporting the success of all students. The goal of this project is to develop tools that would gather information about teachers’ and students’ experiences in computer science learning. The project has a particular focus on approaches to teaching that address systemic and structural barriers in computer science and empower students by engaging them in learning that is relevant to their experiences and identities. This project will create and validate instruments to measure culturally responsive-sustaining education for computer science in middle and high school classrooms. Culturally responsive and sustaining educational experiences should affirm students’ multiple identities, empower students as users and creators of technology, and support their learning, growth, and achievement in computer science. The instruments to be developed include a teacher survey, a student survey, and a classroom observation tool. They will be designed in collaboration with a community-based working group of teachers, students, and parents and guided by an advisory board of experts in culturally responsive pedagogy and education research. The project will build on previously designed instruments to create tools specific to computer science education, which will then be tested through expert review, cognitive interviews, and a pilot in a small number of classrooms. Based on those findings, the instruments will be refined and field-tested to explore whether the implementation of culturally responsive-sustaining education is associated with improved student outcomes in computer science.This project is funded by the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program, which supports projects that build understandings of practices, program elements, contexts and processes contributing to increasing students' knowledge and interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and information and communication technology (ICT) careers. This project is also funded through the CS for All: Research and RPPs program.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.