Computer Science Teacher Professional Development Passport Alliance

计算机科学教师协会（CSTA）与CSEdResearch.org和美国研究所（AIR）合作，将建立一个联盟，以跟踪PreK-12计算机科学（CS）教师专业发展（PD）经验的参与情况。 为了让学生学习CS技能和在现代社会中茁壮成长所需的能力，支持PK-12 CS教师具有PD经验至关重要。在CS教育研究项目中，缺乏对CS教师个人参与和成果的一致跟踪。由三家领先的CS教育机构组成的联盟将开发CS PD护照系统，以应对这一重大基础设施挑战，使我们能够更准确地回答诸如“有多少独特的PK-12教师参与了NSF资助的计算机科学PD机会？”以及“从事计算机科学NSF资助的PD机会的PK-12教师的人口统计数据是什么？”教师将受益于有一个共同的地方记录验证参与CS PD，这可用于证明PD完成继续教育学分，突出未来雇主的技能，并解锁访问更多的高级PD机会。PD提供者将受益于简化的报告和更好的参与者目标招聘，特别是当寻求与教师谁教历史上被边缘化的CS工作。最终，该联盟的目标是实现一个广泛采用PD护照的世界，使各州教育部门和学区使用这个平台来实施新的教师认证途径和持续专业发展学分要求。在三年内，该项目将实现三个主要目标：（1）为国家科学基金会资助的中文教育研究项目开发和试行一个系统，以报告他们的专业发展特征，参与教师的人口统计数据，以及通过研究和评估确定的其他数据;（2）创建一个PD护照系统，PK-12 CS教师可以使用作为其专业组合的一部分;（3）确定和支持必要的条件，以维持PD护照超过赠款的生命。该联盟的目标是开发一个系统，教师，PD提供者和NSF发现有用的，可用的，可找到的，有价值的，可访问的和可信的。研究将利用用户设计框架来定义用户考虑因素和功能要求，与数据隐私相关的挑战和影响，并与用户建立信任。形成性和总结性评估将涉及半结构化的焦点小组和可用性测试，其中包括来自NSF资助项目的教师和CS PD提供者，现有数据分析，以及CS教育和研究评估方法专家的咨询委员会。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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。

The Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) in collaboration with CSEdResearch.org and the American Institutes for Research (AIR) will develop an alliance to track participation in PreK-12 Computer Science (CS) teacher Professional Development (PD) experiences. To prepare students to learn CS skills and competencies needed to thrive in modern society, it is critical to support PK-12 CS teachers with PD experiences. There has been a lack of consistent tracking of participation and outcomes for individual CS teachers across CS education research projects. An alliance of three leading CS education organizations will develop a CS PD Passport system to address this major infrastructure challenge, allowing us to more accurately answer questions like “How many unique PK-12 teachers have engaged in NSF-funded computer science PD opportunities?” and “What are the demographics of PK-12 teachers who have engaged in computer science NSF-funded PD opportunities?” Teachers will benefit from having a common place for record for validated participation in CS PD, which can be used to prove completion of PD for continuing education credits, highlight skills for future employers, and unlock access to more advance PD opportunities. PD providers will benefit from simplified reporting and better target recruitment of participants, especially when seeking to work with teachers who teach historically marginalized in CS. Ultimately, the Alliance aims for a world where widespread adoption of the PD Passport leads to state departments of education and school districts using this platform to implement new teacher certification pathways and continuing professional development credit requirements.Over three years, the project will fulfill three primary goals: (1) develop and pilot a system for NSF-funded CS education research projects to report their PD characteristics, participating teacher demographics, and other data identified through research and evaluation; (2) create a PD passport system that PK-12 CS teachers can use as part of their professional portfolio; and (3) identify and support the conditions necessary for sustaining the PD Passport beyond the life of the grant. The Alliance aims to develop a system that teachers, PD providers, and NSF find useful, usable, findable, valuable, accessible, and credible. Research will utilize a user design framework to define user considerations and functional requirements, challenges and implications related to data privacy, and building trust with users. Formative and summative evaluation will involve semi-structured focus groups and usability testing with both teachers and CS PD providers from NSF-funded projects, extant data analyses, and an advisory board of CS education and research evaluation methodology experts.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.