Collaborative Research: Preparing Urban Milwaukee for Pathways in Computer Science

威斯康辛州在学校中获取计算机科学（CS）内容的机会越来越不公平。富裕的郊区学校以创纪录的速度增加了CS原理（CSP）等课程。资源较少的学校很少或根本没有计算机科学课程，而且由于计算机科学教师被吸引到工业和郊区，这些学校的计算机科学课程越来越少。马奎特大学和学习伙伴关系已经在扩大威斯康星州CS教师专业发展机会方面取得了重大进展。过去五年的前期工作已经为1850多名K-5教师提供了CS专业发展，覆盖了67,000多名学童。仔细的评估将使团队能够探索更深层次的问题，如先前的CS接触如何影响学生后来的CS途径，为什么CS倡议在城市不同地区的执行效果如此不均匀，以及如何在动态的城市学校系统中加强和扩展路径。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。

Wisconsin faces increasingly inequitable access to Computer Science (CS) content in schools. Affluent suburban schools add courses, such as CS Principles (CSP), at a record rate. Schools with fewer resources have little or no CS offerings and see meager access diminished as scarce while CS teachers are lured away to industry and the suburbs. Marquette University and The Learning Partnership have already made significant inroads in expanding Wisconsin's CS professional development opportunities for teachers. Prior work over the last five years has provided CS Professional Development to over 1,850 K-5 teachers, reaching over 67,000 school children. Careful assessment will allow the team to explore deeper questions about how prior CS exposure effects students later in the CS pathway, why execution of CS initiatives are so unevenly effective in different parts of the city, and how to strengthen and expand a pathway in a dynamic urban school system.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.