Collaborative Research: Broadening Participation and Building Pathways in Computer Science (CS) through Concurrent Enrollment

本项目研究并行招生（CE）计划的实施和成果，作为扩大参与高中到大学计算机科学（CS）途径的工具。移动的计算机科学原理（移动的CSP）项目在圣斯科拉斯蒂卡学院，一个既定的课程，由大学理事会批准其与先进的安置（AP）CSP框架的一致性，已形成了研究人员与实践者的合作伙伴关系（RPP）在哈特福德首都社区学院的CE课程，康乃狄克州和明尼苏达州西南州立大学，并与各州的合作学区合作。“资源增值计划”项目旨在探讨透过持续教育课程，中学能否扩阔至大学为那些传统上在这些领域代表性不足的人提供计算机学科的途径-女性，代表性不足的少数民族和低SES学生。虽然AP CSP课程比以前的AP CS课程招收了更多样化的学生群体，但它并不像其他AP课程那样多样化。在主要服务于代表性不足的少数民族和低社会经济地位学生的学校中，CE课程似乎比AP有更好的渗透力，这表明CE课程有望扩大其他学科的参与，并鼓励大学入学。（明尼苏达州的农村和低社会经济地位，康涅狄格州的城市，多样化和低社会经济地位），该项目有助于在各种背景下改变CS的教育途径，并有助于理解将CSP作为CE实施的支持和障碍，以扩大参与目标。该项目为40名高中教师提供专业发展和支持，在3年的时间里在合作学区教授CE版本的移动的CSP课程。该RPP项目的目标是（1）检查和解决实施和维持移动的CSP作为并行注册课程的支持和障碍，以及（2）研究CSP课程的CE实施是否扩大了计算的参与。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project studies the implementation and outcomes of Concurrent Enrollment (CE) programs as a vehicle for broadening participation in high school to college pathways in Computer Science (CS). The Mobile Computer Science Principles (Mobile CSP) project at the College of St. Scholastica, an established curriculum endorsed by the College Board for its alignment with the Advanced Placement (AP) CSP framework, has formed a Research-Practitioner Partnership (RPP) with CE programs at Capital Community College in Hartford, Connecticut and Southwest Minnesota State University in Minnesota and with partner school districts in each state.The RPP project explores whether CS through CE can broaden the high school to college pathway in computing disciplines for those traditionally underrepresented in these fields--female, underrepresented minority, and low-SES students. While the AP CSP course has enrolled a more diverse group of students than previous AP CS courses, it is not as diverse as other AP courses. CE programs appear to have better penetration than AP among schools that predominantly serve underrepresented minorities and low-SES students, showing promise for broadening participation in other disciplines and encouraging college matriculation.By implementing and studying CS through CE in two different contexts (rural and low-SES in Minnesota and urban, diverse, and low-SES in Connecticut), the project contributes to transforming the educational pathways in CS in a variety of contexts and to understanding the supports and barriers to implementing CSP as CE with a broadening-participation goal. This project provides professional development and support of 40 high school teachers to teach a CE version of the Mobile CSP course among partnering school districts over the course of 3 years. The goals of this RPP project are (1) to examine and address the supports and barriers to implementing and sustaining Mobile CSP as a concurrent enrollment course and (2) to study whether a CE implementation of the CSP course broadens participation in computing.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.