EAGER: Building CT Readiness: An EAGER Proposal to Refine and Study a Framework for Integrating Computational Thinking Across Subjects in High-Poverty Elementary Schools

教育发展中心（EDC）及其在纽约（纽约市）学校研究联盟的合作伙伴和伊利诺伊大学的Maya Israel博士提出了一项为期18个月的EAGER资助，用于基础教育中计算思维（CT）整合领域的研究和开发。这项工作的主要目的是让研究团队在12个月的时间里与18位地理上分散的学校校长、教师、评估人员和主题专家合作，迭代地完善现有的草案框架、自我诊断工具和跨多个学校学科计算思维整合的规则。随后，我们将在三个州（纽约州、伊利诺伊州和佛罗里达州）的高贫困地区的六所小学对修订后的工具进行为期三个月的试点测试，以调查是否有令人鼓舞的证据表明，系统地使用这些资源与成功地将CT整合到小学课程中有关。这些工具旨在帮助高贫困（最终是所有）学校澄清他们对CT和CT整合的定义；阐明他们实施CT的愿景和计划；监测CT教学中教师专业发展的有效性。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

Education Development Center (EDC) and its partners at the Research Alliance for NYC (New York City) Schools and Dr. Maya Israel of the University of Illinois propose an eighteen-month EAGER grant for research and development in the area of computational thinking (CT) integration in elementary education. The primary purpose of the proposed work is for the research team to collaborate over 12 months with a group of 18 geographically dispersed school principals, teachers, evaluators, and subject-matter experts to iteratively refine an existing draft framework, self-diagnostic tool, and rubric for computational thinking integration across multiple school subjects. Subsequently, we will pilot test the revised tools over three months in six elementary schools in high-poverty areas in three states (New York, Illinois, and Florida) to investigate whether there is promising evidence that systematic use of these resources is associated with the successful integration of CT across elementary school curricula. These tools are meant to help high-poverty (and eventually all) schools clarify their definitions of CT and CT integration; to articulate their visions and plans for CT implementation; and to monitor the effectiveness of teacher professional development in CT instruction.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.