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

这一扩大计算示范项目的参与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。该项目团队位于两个西班牙裔服务机构，将重点从女性和西班牙裔学生的角度制定高中教学实践，从而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，让来自边缘化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，项目团队将与一所为大多数西班牙裔学生提供服务的高中合作，将文化相关的教学实践融入到 AP 计算机科学课程中。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 教师提供教学法和策略，以提高课堂的包容性和公平性。计算机示范项目的广泛参与将开发和整合基于文化响应式教学法、基于能力的学习和多媒体学习原理的个性化教学系统，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：提供一个展示计算的多样化表现和独特视角的平台，促进 K-12 计算教育中的公平学习框架，并提高计算的自我效能和包容性。这些独特的观点将在一个在线平台上展示，该平台提供具有综合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。其实践练习界面将提供自动反馈，帮助高中生在编码掌握程度不断提高的过程中识别并克服错误，就像他们的同龄人一样。作为个性化的教学系统，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，并通过使用基金会的智力优点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.