Collaborative Research: Type I: Taste of Computing: Adding a CS Entree to the Education Choices in a Large Urban School District

合作研究：第一类：计算的味道：在大城市学区的教育选择中添加计算机科学主菜

• 批准号: 1138515
• 负责人: Lucia Dettori
• 金额: $ 75.61万
• 依托单位: DePaul University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-01 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1138515&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Type; Taste; Computing

DePaul University and Loyola University of Chicago propose a project to improve and expand computer science (CS) education in Chicago Public Schools (CPS) high schools. The project will create a high-quality CS course that will serve as the introductory course for all tracks of the three-year CPS Career and Technology Education InfoTech (CTE InfoTech) program that is offered at 32 high schools. The course will adapt and extend the successful pilot "Exploring Computer Science" (ECS) curriculum originally developed for the Los Angeles Unified School District. With a focus on computational thinking, the ECS curriculum includes units on Human Computer Interaction, Problem Solving, Web Design, Programming, Computing Applications, and Robotics. This project will create new units on Game Programming and Project Management as alternatives to the Robotics unit. These new units won?t require expensive technology, facilitating the adoption of ECS in a wider range of schools; in addition, they will also better serve some of the tracks being introduced in the newly revamped CTE InfoTech curriculum. To increase adoption beyond the CTE program, the new course is likely to be offered also as a Mathematics elective and it will be a great preparatory course for the new AP Computer Science Principles course that is being developed. Finally, the CPS high school population is 51% African American and 37% Hispanic, making Chicago an ideal location to reach students from underrepresented groups, and leveraging the expertise of the PIs, specific efforts will also be made to achieve a more equitable representation of the female half of the population.

DePaul大学和芝加哥洛约拉大学提出了一个项目，以改善和扩展芝加哥公立学校（CPS）高中的计算机科学教育。该项目将创建高质量的CS课程，该课程将作为三年CPS职业和技术教育Infotech（CTE Infotech）计划的所有曲目的入门课程，该课程在32个高中提供。该课程将适应并扩展成功的飞行员“探索计算机科学”（ECS）课程，最初是为洛杉矶统一学区开发的。以计算思维为重点，ECS课程包括有关人类计算机交互，解决问题，网页设计，编程，计算应用程序和机器人技术的单位。该项目将创建有关游戏编程和项目管理的新单元，作为机器人单元的替代方案。这些新单元将不需要昂贵的技术，从而促进在更广泛的学校中采用EC；此外，它们还将更好地服务于新修改后的CTE Infotech课程中引入的一些曲目。为了将采用率提高到CTE计划之外，新课程也可能作为数学选修课提供，这将是正在开发的新AP计算机科学原理课程的绝佳预备课程。最后，CPS高中人口为51％的非裔美国人和37％的西班牙裔，使芝加哥成为吸引人数不足群体的学生的理想场所，并利用PIS的专业知识，还将做出具体的努力，以实现对女性一半人口的更公平代表。