Computational Thinking as an Approach to Refining the Critical Thinking and Analytical Reasoning Skills of Undergraduates at an HBCU

该项目名为“计算思维：提高HBCU本科生批判性思维和分析推理能力的方法”，其目标是扩展计算思维这门新课程，以确保完成这门课程的学生提高批判性思维和分析推理能力。这个项目的目标是：确定和发展计算思维能力的精确测量；开发一个课程，成功地将批判性思维和分析推理技能与计算思维技能相结合；并确定计算思维能力是否能提高杰克逊州立大学学生的批判性思维和分析推理能力。这个项目将有助于计算思维的新发展领域。计算思维的倡导者认为，它不仅会改变计算机科学教育，还会改变K-16教育。杰克逊州立大学92%的学生是非裔美国人。作为该机构核心课程的一部分，所有学生都必须学习计算机课程。因此，这个项目有可能将计算思维、批判性思维和分析推理技能传授给大量代表性不足的学生。该项目将确保hbcu和其他少数族裔服务机构成为不断发展的计算思维社区的一部分。课程模块和这个项目产生的理论框架将通过传统的方式传播，如出版物和演讲，以及各种计算相关的途径。

The project entitled - Computational Thinking as an Approach to Refining the Critical Thinking and Analytical Reasoning Skills of Undergraduates at an HBCU - has the goal to expand on a new course in Computational Thinking to ensure that students who complete this course have enhanced critical thinking and analytical reasoning skills. The objectives of this project are: to identify and develop exact measures of Computational Thinking competencies; to develop a curriculum that successfully integrates critical thinking and analytical reasoning skills with Computational Thinking skills; and to determine whether Computational Thinking competencies enhance critical thinking and analytical reasoning skills for students at Jackson State University.This project will contribute to the newly evolving area of Computational Thinking. Advocates of computational thinking believe that it will transform not only Computer Science education, but K-16 education in general. Ninety-Two percent of the students enrolled at Jackson State University are African-American. As part of the institution's core curriculum all students must take a computing course. Therefore, this project has the potential to impart Computational Thinking, critical thinking and analytical reasoning skills to a large number of underrepresented students. This project will ensure that HBCUs and other minority serving institutions are a part of the evolving Computational Thinking community. Course modules and a theoretical framework resulting from this project will be disseminated through traditional means such as publications and presentations as well as various computing related pathways.