Collaborative Research: CS 10K: AccessCS10K: Including Students with Disabilities in Computing Education for the Twenty-First Century

华盛顿大学与内华达州的拉斯维加斯大学合作，提出了一个项目-“计算机科学10 K”-以提高残疾学生对新的“探索计算机科学”和“计算机科学原理”课程的成功参与。这两门课程都旨在介绍计算机科学中的重要思想，并激励来自不同背景的学生将计算能力视为其职业规划的一部分。该项目的重点是包容残疾学生。它有两个目标。首先是建立ECS和CSP教师的能力，为这些学生提供针对CS 10 K PD培训师，课程单元，在线教程，教师实践虚拟社区以及实时个人教师支持的专业发展。第二个目标是创建可访问的材料，包括工具（包括Quorum语言的迭代改进和部署）和ECS和CSP教师和学生可以在课堂上使用的课程单元。这项工作将由华盛顿大学和拉斯维加斯的内华达州大学的团队领导，以主要研究者和经验丰富的合作伙伴的先前工作为基础。此外，项目负责人将与许多当前和未来的CS10 K受赠者以及无障碍工具和课程的开发人员合作，以最大限度地发挥其工作的影响。ECS和CSP班的所有学生，无论是否有残疾，都将受益于教师实施的更具包容性的教学策略。该项目解决了为包括残疾学生在内的不同学生准备计算教育工作者的需求，以及创建满足包括残疾学生在内的不同学生需求的工具和课程的需求。作为形成性评价的一部分，外部评价员将在内部评价员的帮助下跟踪项目活动、产出和早期成果，并作为总结性评价的一部分，帮助确定干预措施的影响。该评估将评估CS 10 K培训师能够学习和使用CS10 K专业发展模块的程度，以及CS 10 K教师是否能够在课堂上使用教学策略，个性化支持，课程单元和无障碍技术。

The University of Washington, in collaboration with the University of Las Vegas Nevada, proposes a project - AccessCS10K - to increase the successful participation of students with disabilities in the new Exploring Computer Science (ECS) and Computer Science Principles (CSP) courses. Both courses are designed to introduce the big ideas in computer science and to inspire students from diverse backgrounds to consider computational competence as part of their career plans. This project focuses on the inclusion of students with disabilities. It has two objectives. The first is to build the capacity of ECS and CSP teachers to serve those students with professional development aimed at the CS 10K PD trainers, curricular units, online tutorials, virtual communities of practice for teachers, and real-time, individual teacher support. The second objective is to create accessible materials, both tools (including iterative refinement and deployment of the Quorum language) and curricular units that ECS and CSP teachers and students can use in their classrooms. The work will be led by teams at the University of Washington and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, building on the prior work of the Principal Investigators and experienced partners. Further, the project leaders will work in partnership with many of the current and future CS10K grantees and with developers of accessible tools and curricula to maximize the impact of their work. All students in ECS and CSP classes, regardless of disability, will benefit from more inclusive teaching strategies practiced by their teachers.This project addresses the need to prepare computing educators for diverse students, including those with disabilities, and the need to create tools and curricula that meet the needs of diverse students including those with disabilities. An external evaluator, with the help on an internal evaluator, will track project activities, outputs, and early outcomes as part of the formative evaluation, and will help establish the impact of the interventions as part of the summative evaluation. The evaluation will assess how well CS 10K trainers able to learn and use the AccessCS10K professional development modules and whether CS 10K teachers able to use teaching strategies, individualized support, curricular units, and accessible technologies in their classrooms.