Advancing Computing Education: Formation of a Computing Education Coordinating Council

推进计算机教育：成立计算机教育协调委员会

• 批准号: 1050075
• 负责人: Mark Guzdial
• 金额: $ 3.44万
• 依托单位: Association Computing Machinery
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1050075&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Advancing; Computing; Education; Formation; Coordinating

This CISE Special Project provides funds to form an entity called the Computing Education Coordinating Council (CECC). The CECC is envisioned to be inclusive and wide ranging ultimately including all organizations with an interest in computing education. The starting point of the Council will be simple, with a small core of prominent computing education organizations, which will be responsible for laying the foundational for long-term sustainability of the CECC. Once it has achieved a higher level of maturity and acceptance, the CECC will be expanded into a larger and more robust group. This project was developed as a direct result of the NSF-funded Future of Computing Education Summit that took place in June 2009. The CECC project team plans to first develop a draft strategic plan for CECC start up that includes ideas and recommendations concerning CECC formation. Then the team intends to engage the leadership of the core computing education organizations in order to solidify CECC goals and activities, establish a two-three year strategic plan, and to secure their commitment to the CECC plan. Intellectual Merit: The field of computing is somewhat paradoxical. Almost everyone recognizes its vital importance in their daily lives; computing is foundational for many other sciences; budgets for computing products and services continue to expand; and there is currently a high demand for competent computing professionals that extends well into the future. Yet, in the last decade there has been little or no growth in the enrollment in educational computing programs; the populations of computing students, educators, and professionals lack diversity; pre-university computing education has critical weaknesses in funding, teacher preparation and curriculum requirements; and the nature, content, and practices of the various computing professions are not well understood by the public. The alarming lack of women and minorities engaged in computing will have long-term impact on our ability to innovate. This lack of diversity of thought is finally being recognized as reaching crisis level by government and industry. Various computing organizations have worked independently to address these problems; however, working singly or in small groups does not have the same positive effect as a more substantial and universal approach. The purpose of the CECC is to present a unified view of how to address the significant challenges faced by computing education. Broader Impact: The CECC will have a wide ranging and significant influence on the state of computing education. The Council will engage in endeavors that support and promote the following: ongoing research and scholarship in computing education to ensure effectiveness, relevance and currency through developments in pedagogy, curriculum, practice, and technology; improvement in pre-university computing education in the areas of teacher preparation and curriculum requirements; increased diversity in the populations of computing students, educators, and professionals; increased numbers of students pursuing degrees in various fields of computing, including computing education; improvement in the public understanding of the nature, content, and practices of various computing professions; and enhanced understanding about the relationship between computing and other disciplines.

该 CISE 特别项目提供资金来组建一个名为计算机教育协调委员会 (CECC) 的实体。 CECC 预计将具有包容性和广泛性，最终包括所有对计算机教育感兴趣的组织。理事会的出发点很简单，由著名计算机教育组织组成的小核心，负责为 CECC 的长期可持续发展奠定基础。一旦达到更高的成熟度和接受度，CECC 将扩展为更大、更强大的集团。该项目是 2009 年 6 月举行的 NSF 资助的未来计算教育峰会的直接成果。CECC 项目团队计划首先制定 CECC 启动战略计划草案，其中包括有关 CECC 组建的想法和建议。然后，团队打算让核心计算教育组织的领导层参与进来，以巩固 CECC 的目标和活动，制定两三年战略计划，并确保他们对 CECC 计划的承诺。智力优势：计算领域有些矛盾。几乎每个人都认识到它在日常生活中的重要性；计算是许多其他科学的基础；计算产品和服务的预算继续扩大；目前对有能力的计算专业人员的需求很高，这种需求一直延伸到未来。然而，在过去十年中，教育计算项目的入学人数几乎没有增长，甚至没有增长。计算机专业学生、教育工作者和专业人员缺乏多样性；大学预科计算机教育在资金、教师准备和课程要求方面存在严重弱点；公众并没有很好地理解各种计算机专业的性质、内容和实践。从事计算机领域的女性和少数族裔数量惊人的缺乏将对我们的创新能力产生长期影响。政府和行业最终认识到这种思想多样性的缺乏已达到危机水平。各个计算组织都独立致力于解决这些问题；然而，单独或小组工作并不具有与更实质性和普遍性方法相同的积极效果。 CECC 的目的是就如何应对计算机教育面临的重大挑战提出统一的观点。更广泛的影响：CECC 将对计算机教育状况产生广泛且重大的影响。理事会将致力于支持和促进以下各项： 计算机教育领域的持续研究和学术研究，通过教学法、课程、实践和技术的发展确保有效性、相关性和通用性；在教师准备和课程要求方面改进大学预科计算机教育；计算机专业学生、教育工作者和专业人员群体的多样性不断增加；越来越多的学生攻读各个计算机领域的学位，包括计算机教育；提高公众对各种计算机专业的性质、内容和实践的理解；并增强对计算与其他学科之间关系的理解。