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。位于两个西班牙裔服务机构，该项目小组将专注于提高代表性，相关性，并从妇女和西班牙裔学生的角度制定高中教学实践在计算机科学的公平性。该项目将制作教学视频，介绍来自边缘化背景的大学生如何分享编码概念与他们的生活经验。与此同时，项目团队将通过与一所为大多数西班牙裔学生服务的高中合作，将文化相关的教学实践嵌入AP计算机科学课程。同样的做法将同时纳入奇科州立大学的教师专业发展课程，为未来的AP CSA教师提供教学法和战略，以提高课堂的包容性和公平性。这个扩大参与计算示范项目将开发和整合基于文化敏感的教学法，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。项目目标包括：提供一个平台，展示不同的代表性和独特的观点计算，促进一个公平的学习框架，在K-12计算教育，提高自我效能和包容性的计算。这些独特的视角将在一个在线平台上展示，该平台提供了具有集成演练和实践的编码应用程序的包容性示例。该平台将展示编码在文化相关背景下的意义。它的动手实践界面将提供自动反馈，帮助高中生识别和克服错误，因为他们在编码掌握成长，正如他们的同龄人所模仿的。作为一个个性化的教学系统，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NSF的法定使命，并已被认为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。

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.