Catch 'em Early: Internship and Assistantship CS Mentoring Programs for Underclassmen
Catch 'em Early: Internship and Assistantship CS Mentoring Programs for Underclassmen
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尽早发现：针对低年级学生的实习和助理计算机科学指导计划
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2018
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S. Small
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Meg Fryling;MaryAnne L. Egan;Robin Y. Flatland;Scott L. Vandenberg;S. Small
招收和留住STEM专业一直是高校面临的一个持续挑战。这份研究报告描述了锡耶纳学院从2014年秋季开始实施的两项招收和留住计算机科学(CS)专业的举措。这两项计划都是针对已经完成第一年CS序列的大二新生，作为鼓励他们申报和完成CS专业的早期战略。第一个倡议是一个早期实习计划，旨在为学生提供应用这些技术技能的机会，扩展他们的技能集，并在大一到大二之间向他们介绍有意义的现实世界项目。第二项倡议是实验室/课堂助理计划，大二或大四的学生在课堂和实验室课程中为CS入门课程提供指导。这份白皮书提供了初步的发现、吸取的教训和未来的方向。
Recruiting and retaining STEM majors has been an ongoing challenge for colleges and universities. This research paper describes two initiatives to recruit and retain Computer Science (CS) majors that were implemented at Siena College starting in the fall of 2014. Both initiatives are directed at rising sophomores who have completed the first year CS sequence as an early strategy to encourage them to declare and complete the CS major. The first initiative is an early internship program directed at providing students an opportunity to apply those technical skills, extend their skill set, and introduce them to meaningful real-world projects between their freshman and sophomore years. The second initiative is a lab/classroom assistant program where sophomore or older students provide mentoring during lecture and lab sessions for the introductory CS courses. The paper provides preliminary findings, lessons learned, and directions for the future.