Collaborative Research: CAFECS: AP CSP Access for All

协作研究：CAFECS：所有人的 AP CSP 访问

• 批准号: 2219492
• 负责人: Lucia Dettori
• 金额: $ 93.75万
• 依托单位: DePaul University
• 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 2026-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2219492&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; CAFECS; AP; CSP

The Learning Partnership, DePaul University, and Chicago Public Schools (CPS) will collaborate to increase access to and success in AP Computer Science Principles (AP CSP), for African American and Hispanic students, who are traditionally underrepresented in computer science and specifically in AP computer science courses. Each year, about 14,000 students in CPS graduate with one year of high school computer science credit in fulfillment of the district’s computer science graduation requirement. This accomplishment was the culmination of over a decade of work by the Chicago Alliance For Equity in Computer Science research-practice partnership, which includes CPS teachers, CPS administrators, university computer science faculty, and educational researchers. However, access to advanced computer science courses, specifically AP CSP, remains limited, resulting in significant racial and ethnic disparities in access and outcomes. With a specific focus on African American and Hispanic students, the goal of this project is to ensure that every CPS high school offers AP CSP, that enrollment in the course reflects the demographics of each school, and success on the AP exam is equivalent by race, ethnicity, and gender. In addition to addressing inequity in computer science education and supporting teacher professional development, the project will ultimately lead to the development of a stronger and more diverse computing workforce that will enhance U.S. economic competitiveness.The project will provide systems of support to address the challenges inherent in preparing all students and teachers for success in AP CSP and ensure the course is taught using culturally responsive pedagogy. An increasing proportion of new AP CSP teachers do not have a deep background in computer science, and this project will provide content-specific professional development and ongoing coaching. Teachers will be scaffolded in implementing culturally responsive teaching practices through the Exploring Connections to Computer Science activities and professional development program. These practices are especially important for addressing gaps in course outcomes experienced by students of color who are the focus of this project. The project will reach approximately 75 teachers, which would be sufficient to have at least one CSP teacher in every school that does not currently offer AP CSP. As a result, the number of students taking AP CPS should double from roughly 2000 to 4000 students within three years with the increase coming primarily from students at neighborhood schools who identify as Black or Hispanic. The project will engage in hypothesis-driven research to identify factors that predict, facilitate or hinder implementation of AP CSP in neighborhood schools and create a framework of strategies to support the district-wide effort to expand AP CSP.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.

学习伙伴关系，德保罗大学和芝加哥公立学校（CPS）将合作，以增加访问和成功的AP计算机科学原理（AP CSP），为非洲裔美国人和西班牙裔学生，谁是传统上代表不足的计算机科学，特别是在AP计算机科学课程。每年，CPS约有14,000名学生毕业，获得一年的高中计算机科学学分，以满足该地区的计算机科学毕业要求。这一成就是芝加哥计算机科学研究实践伙伴关系公平联盟十多年来工作的成果，该联盟包括CPS教师，CPS管理人员，大学计算机科学教师和教育研究人员。然而，获得先进的计算机科学课程，特别是AP CSP，仍然有限，导致显着的种族和民族差异的访问和结果。 与非洲裔美国人和西班牙裔学生的具体重点，这个项目的目标是确保每一个CPS高中提供AP CSP，在课程招生反映了每所学校的人口统计，并在AP考试的成功是由种族，民族和性别等同。除了解决计算机科学教育中的不平等和支持教师专业发展外，该项目将最终导致发展一支更强大、更多样化的计算人才队伍，从而增强美国的经济竞争力。该项目将提供支持系统，以解决所有学生和教师在AP CSP中取得成功所面临的挑战，并确保课程的教学使用文化敏感的方法教育学越来越多的新AP CSP教师在计算机科学方面没有深厚的背景，该项目将提供特定内容的专业发展和持续辅导。教师将通过探索连接到计算机科学活动和专业发展计划实施文化响应的教学实践脚手架。这些做法是特别重要的解决差距，在课程的结果所经历的学生的颜色谁是这个项目的重点。该项目将惠及约75名教师，这将足以使目前没有提供AP CSP的每所学校至少有一名CSP教师。因此，在三年内，参加AP CPS的学生人数应该从大约2000人增加到4000人，增加的学生主要来自社区学校的黑人或西班牙裔学生。该项目将从事假设驱动的研究，以确定预测，促进或阻碍AP CSP在社区学校实施的因素，并创建一个战略框架，以支持整个地区的努力，以扩大AP CSP。该奖项反映了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。