Supporting Continued Improvements to K-12 Computer Science Education

该奖项为计算机协会提供资金，以支持计算机科学教师协会（CSTA）的活动。 该奖项由CISE特别项目计划和扩大参与计算计划共同资助。通过与各级教育，政府，行业和合作非营利组织的领导者合作，CSTA已经开始将K-12教育中的计算机科学重新定义为真正的科学。CSTA为参与计算教育的K-12教育提供了发言权。CSTA已经启动了国家方案，以进行研究，制定课程标准，提供专业发展，并为全国教师创造和传播新的资源。通过这些活动，CSTA正在建立一个由个人和组织组成的社区，他们共同努力解决K-12计算机科学教育中的问题，其智力价值在于努力将K-12计算机科学建立为一个重要的学术学科，并进行基础研究，以记录和支持K-12计算机教育作为一个可行的研究和学习领域的出现。 CSTA依靠其领导者和志愿者，所有公认的专家在该领域，开发和实施许多具有深远意义的计划和举措，巩固学科，并提供计算到K-12教育的核心整合的智力基础。更广泛的影响在于CSTA计划影响计算教育的潜力，从而影响国家需求领域的国家技术劳动力。 通过与主要利益相关者的多层次合作，CSTA支持课程和教学认证标准的实施，以确保学生学习的质量和一致性。 科技协进会开展和传播研究和最佳做法，以促进知识从研究人员流向课堂上的从业人员。 CSTA的目标和活动支持确保代表性不足的群体更多地参与计算劳动力。 因此，CSTA提供了广泛的计划和活动，对国家，K-12教育和计算机科学界产生了广泛的影响。

This award provides funding to the Association for Computing Machinery for core support of the activities of the Computer Science Teacher's Association (CSTA). The award is jointly funded by the CISE Special Project program and the Broadening Participation in Computing Program. Through collaboration with leaders from all levels of education, government, industry, and partnering non-profit organizations, the CSTA has begun reframing computer science within K-12 education as a true science. CSTA provides a voice to K-12 educations involved in computing education. CSTA has launched national programs to conduct research, develop curriculum standards, provide professional development, and create and disseminate new resources for teachers nationwide. Through these activities, CSTA is building a community of individuals and organizations who collectively work together to address issues in K-12 computer science education.The intellectual merit lies in the efforts to establish K-12 computer science as an essential academic discipline and to conduct fundamental research to document and support the emergence of K-12 computing education as a viable area of research and study. The CSTA relies on its leaders and volunteers, all recognized experts in the field, to develop and carry out many far-reaching programs and initiatives which solidify the discipline and provide an intellectual basis for core integration of computing into K-12 education. The broader impacts lie in the potential of the CSTA initiatives to impact computing education and thus the nation's technological workforce in an area of national need. Through multi-level collaboration with key stakeholders, the CSTA supports the implementation of curriculum and teaching certification standards that will ensure the quality and consistency of student learning. CSTA conducts and disseminates research and best practices that can facilitate the flow of knowledge from researchers to the practitioners in the classroom. The CSTA goals and activities support ensuring greater participation of underrepresented groups in the computing workforce. Thus, CSTA offers a broad range of programs and activities that provide a broad spectrum of impact on the nation, K-12 education, and the computer science community.