Expanding the Reach of AP CSP Curricula

芝加哥大学初等数学和科学教育中心（CEMSE）正在实施EAGER项目，“扩大AP CSP课程的范围”，以帮助正在为新的高级安置计算机科学原理（AP CSP）课程开发课程的两个小组准备广泛使用的材料。这两门课程都是在NSF的支持下开发的，分别是移动的CSP（由Trinity学院开发）和Thriving in Our Digital World（由德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校开发）。拟议的工作将集中在六个领域，这些领域对成功扩展课程至关重要：可用性，适销性，可持续性，鲁棒性，标准标签和关键功能的清晰度。CEMSE的研究人员和课程开发人员将与AP CSP课程开发人员合作，分析他们的课程在这六个领域的优势和劣势，并开发模板，附件，相关性，概述，教师版本和其他资产，使课程最大限度地有用，并吸引全国各地的教师。这项工作将为其他CS课程的课程开发提供一个模型，并很可能为CS原理课程框架本身的可能改进提供见解。

The University of Chicago's Center for Elementary Mathematics and Science Education (CEMSE) is pursuing this EAGER project, "Expanding the Reach of AP CSP Curricula," to help two of the groups that are developing curricula for the new Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles (AP CSP) course prepare their materials for broad use. The two curricula -- both developed with NSF support -- are Mobile CSP (developed at Trinity College) and Thriving in Our Digital World (developed by the University of Texas at Austin). The proposed work will focus on six areas that are critical for successful scaling of the curricula: usability, marketability, sustainability, robustness, standards labeling, and clarity about critical features. Researchers and curriculum developers at CEMSE will collaborate with the AP CSP curriculum developers to analyze their programs' strengths and weaknesses in these six areas and to develop templates, ancillaries, correlations, overviews, teacher's editions, and other assets that will make the curricula maximally useful and appealing to teachers across the nation. The work will provide a model for curriculum development for other CS courses, and may well provide insights into possible improvements to the CS Principles course framework itself.