CSONIC: Computer Science Outcomes Networked Improvement Community

克莱蒙特研究生大学正在建立一个由评估人员、教育研究人员和主要研究人员组成的网络改进社区（NIC），致力于在CS for All Initiative中开发一个通用框架，用于衡量高中教师专业发展（PD）的有效性。这项工作的重点是测量和报告计算机科学教育界的两个关键但难以捉摸的数据点：课堂实施和学生成功。这项工作将与来自CS10K、STEM+C和CS for All项目的研究人员社区合作，以阐明国家目标，并支持对其课堂实施和学生成绩的评估。这项工作解决了评估者和教育研究人员通常提供的信息与确定教师专业学习创新的优点和价值所需的信息之间的差距，为资助项目提供关键的形成性反馈，并实现可推广的研究结果。基于社区的方法将结合Bryk的网络改进社区（NICs） （Bryk, Gomez, and Grunow, 2011）和Kania and Kramer的集体影响（Kania & Kramer, 2011）的原则。根据集体影响方法，该项目将对执业评估人员进行初步需求分析，建立中心基础设施，雇用经验丰富、敬业的工作人员，并努力建立共同目标、共享测量工具和方法、持续沟通和社区内相互加强的活动。各种沟通结构和资源（例如，网络研讨会、基于会议的面对面会议、在线社区会议网站、工具库），以及鼓励和承认社区成员的贡献（例如，他们的话语、共享资源、共享成功）将支持社区规范。这些规范包括采用课堂实施和学生成功作为评估工作的结果，共享资源，分享关注和成功，以及“传递”（即为新社区成员做出贡献）。社区互动将创造条件，挑战和扩展当前的评估方式，并鼓励思考和开展课堂实施和学生成功评估的新方法

Claremont Graduate University is building a Networked Improvement Community (NIC) of evaluators, education researchers, and principal investigators working to develop a common framework for measuring the effectiveness of high school teacher professional development (PD) within the CS for All Initiative. The work focuses on the measurement and reporting of two critical, yet elusive, data points within the computer science education community: classroom implementation and student success. The effort will work with a community of investigators from CS10K, STEM+C, and CS for All projects in order to articulate national targets for and supporting evaluations of their classroom implementations and student outcomes. The effort addresses a gap between the information that evaluators and educational researchers typically provide and the information required to determine the merit and worth of teacher professional learning innovations, to provide critical formative feedback to funded programs, and to achieve generalizable research results.The community-based approach will incorporate the tenets of Bryk's Networked Improvement Communities (NICs) (Bryk, Gomez, and Grunow, 2011) and Kania and Kramer's Collective Impact (Kania & Kramer, 2011). In keeping with the Collective Impact approach, the project will conduct an initial needs analysis of practicing evaluators, build a central infrastructure, employ experienced and dedicated Staff, and strive towards establishing common targets, shared tools and approaches to measurement, continuous communication, and mutually reinforcing activities within the community. Various communication structures and resources (e.g., webinars, conference-based face-to-face meetings, an online community meeting site, an instrument repository), as well as encouragement and acknowledgement of the contributions of community members (e.g., their discourse, shared resources, shared successes) will support community norms. These norms include adopting classroom implementation and student success as outcomes of evaluation work, sharing resources, sharing concerns and successes, and "paying it forward" (i.e., contributing to newer community members). The community interactions will create the conditions that challenge and extend current ways of doing evaluation, and encourage new ways of thinking about and conducting classroom implementation and student success evaluations