EAGER-Black Women Work: Broadening Participation of Black Girls in Computer Science Careers

该项目考察了黑人女教师的职前准备，通过发展她们的计算思维技能，扩大非洲裔美国女孩在计算机科学（CS）职业中的参与。本研究将研究黑人小学教师如何学会支持他们的幼儿园到六年级的非裔美国女学生学习计算机科学，以努力激励她们在计算机科学工作队伍中的未来。本研究的目的是了解非裔美国女教师如何支持黑人学生进入计算机科学职业。我们将具体研究：1)教师认证计划的组成部分，为小学黑人女孩建立CT；2)文化响应计算（CRC）培训；3)以支持非裔美国女孩的方式进行CRC培训；4)在教师资格认证项目主要培训白人未来教师的高等教育机构中，支持黑人教师的最佳做法。本研究的总体目标是通过探索黑人女教师如何学习激励黑人女孩参与CS劳动力来补充文献。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。

This project examines Black women teachers' pre-service preparation in an effort to broaden participation of African American girls in computer science (CS) careers by developing their computational thinking (CT) skills. This study will examine how Black elementary school teachers learned to support their kindergarten through sixth grade African American female students to learn CT in efforts to inspire their futures in the CS workforce. The objective of this research is to understand how African American women teachers support Black students to enter computer science careers. We will specifically examine: 1) teacher certification program components that build CT for elementary Black girls; 2) training in culturally responsive computing (CRC); 3) CRC training in ways that support African American girls; and 4) best practices for supporting Black teachers at institutions of higher education where teacher certification programs train predominately white future teachers. The overarching objective of this research study is to add to the literature by exploring how Black female teachers learn to inspire Black girls' participation in the CS workforce.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.