BPC-DP: Embedding Representation, Relevance, and Equity in a Personalized System of Instruction

这个扩大参与计算示范项目是加州州立大学奇科分校和加州大学圣巴巴拉分校之间的合作。项目团队位于两所西班牙裔服务机构之间，将从女性和西班牙裔学生的角度出发，通过构建高中教学实践，重点关注提高计算机科学的代表性、相关性和公平性。该项目将制作教学视频，让来自边缘背景的大学生分享编码概念如何与他们的生活经历联系起来。与此同时，项目团队将通过与一所以拉美裔学生为主的高中合作，将文化相关的教学实践嵌入到AP计算机科学课程中。同样的实践将同时被纳入奇科州立大学的教师专业发展课程，为未来的CSA教师提供教学法和策略，以增加课堂的包容性和公平性。这种对计算机示范项目的广泛参与将开发和整合一个基于文化响应教学法、基于能力的学习和多媒体学习原则的个性化教学系统，以促进AP CSA课程的多样性、公平性和包容性。该项目的目标包括：提供一个平台，展示不同的计算表现和独特的视角，促进在K-12计算教育中建立公平的学习框架，以及提高自我效能感和对计算的包容。这些独特的观点将在一个在线平台上展示，该平台提供了包含编码应用程序的综合练习示例。该平台将展示编码在文化相关背景下的意义。它的动手练习界面将提供自动反馈，帮助高中生识别和克服错误，因为他们在编程掌握方面的成长，就像他们的同龄人一样。作为一种个性化的教学系统，它将跟踪每个学生的进步，并授权教师为学生提供公平的帮助。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。

This broadening participation in computing demonstration project is a collaboration between California State University, Chico and University of California, Santa Barbara. Situated across the two Hispanic-Serving Institutions, the project team will focus on improving representation, relevance, and equity in computer science by framing high school instructional practices from the perspectives of women and Hispanic students. The project will develop instructional videos that feature university students from marginalized backgrounds sharing how coding concepts relate to their lived experiences. At the same time, the project team will embed culturally-relevant instructional practices into the AP Computer Science classes by partnering with a high school serving a majority Hispanic student population. The same practices will simultaneously be incorporated into Chico State’s teacher professional development course to equip futureAP CSA teachers with pedagogy and strategies to increase inclusivity and equity in their classrooms. This broadening participation in computing demonstration project will develop and integrate a personalized system of instruction based on culturally responsive pedagogy, competency-based learning, and multimedia principles of learning to facilitate diversity, equity, and inclusion in AP CSA courses. The project objectives include: providing a platform to exhibit diverse representation and unique perspectives of computing, facilitating an equitable learning framework in K-12 computing education, and improving self- efficacy and inclusion in computing. These unique perspectives will be showcased on an online platform that provides inclusive examples of coding applications with integrated drill-and-practice. The platform will showcase how coding is meaningful in culturally relevant contexts. Its hands-on practice interface will provide automated feedback that will help high school students identify and overcome errors as they grow in their coding mastery, as modeled by their near-peers. As a personalized system of instruction, it will track each student's progress and empower teachers to provide equitable assistance for students.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.