EAGER: Building a Pipeline to STEM Careers in South Central Los Angeles Through Computer Science

在洛杉矶中南部建立一条通往科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)职业的管道是一项利用计算技能发展作为更广泛学术成就的催化剂的努力。这项工作开发了一个为期一年的计算研讨会，作为洛杉矶一所高中探索计算机科学课程的补充。该研讨会在解决阻碍数学成绩较低四分之一的有色人种男孩取得学业成就的因素方面表现强劲。这项研究将计算机教育作为激发更广泛学术成就的一种手段。这项工作的前提是将学习科学中成熟的技术注入计算机教学中，这些技术有效地解决了往往阻碍学生学业成绩的更广泛的社会和体制因素。更多探索性计算机科学(ECS)课程的部署本身并没有缓解一些与种族和性别相关的学术成就差距。这项工作是对ECS和类似课程的补充，以服务于在困难的学术环境下操作的学生。

Building a Pipeline to Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Careers in South Central Los Angeles is an effort use computational skill development as a catalyst for broader academic achievement. The work develops a year long computing seminar that serves as a complement to the Exploring Computer Science course in a high school in Los Angeles. The seminar is robust in its attempt to address the factors that impede academic achievement of a subset of boys of color in the lower quartile of performance in mathematics.The study operationalizes computing education as a means of igniting broader academic achievement. The premise of the work focuses on infusing into computing instruction established techniques from the learning sciences that are effective in addressing the broader social and institutional factors that often hinder students' academic achievement. The deployment of more Exploring Computer Science (ECS) courses has not by itself mitigated some of the academic achievement gaps correlated with race and gender. This work is an attempt to develop a complement to ECS and courses like it, to serve students operating under difficult academic circumstances.