CER: Collaborative Research: Computing Education through Collaborative Debugging

CER：协作研究：通过协作调试进行计算教育

• 批准号: 1240957
• 负责人: Margaret Burnett
• 金额: $ 32.5万
• 依托单位: Oregon State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-10-01 至 2016-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1240957&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CER; Collaborative; Research; Computing; Education

The University of Washington and Oregon State University will investigate how to teach debugging and computing skills in personalized, social, online learning settings. The investigators will create an interactive website that presents a series of debugging puzzles to learners, allowing them learn diagnostic strategies and computing concepts in a self-paced manner and in collaboration with their peers. The website will also allow learners to create their own debugging puzzles to share with friends, family, and the world, resulting in an online community of social learning. Using this design, the project will investigate the effect of explicit instruction on debugging strategies on learners' ability to learn basic programming concepts and the effect of social learning features on learning outcomes and engagement. The project will also contribute basic discoveries on how to teach debugging and how such teaching can be integrated into instruction on other aspects of computing. Evaluations will include both controlled laboratory experiments, annual summer camps involving over 200 U.S. teens, and a worldwide deployment of the website.This project is part of a larger effort to increase both computing literacy and interest in computing careers on the part of U.S. teens. This project's focus on social learning is particularly important for broadening participation in computing, allowing teens to learn computing in supportive and collaborative settings, rather than the highly competitive settings that tend to deter many teens today. Moreover, because the website will only require an Internet connection and a web browser, and not software installations or special devices, the project will also improve access to effective, evidence-based computing education, reaching learners who only have Internet access at public libraries or at school. These efforts will not only improve U.S. citizens' global competitiveness for information technology jobs, but also help the broader citizenry better understand and debug the increasingly software-based world around them.

华盛顿大学和俄勒冈州立大学将调查如何在个性化的，社交，在线学习环境中教授调试和计算技能。调查人员将创建一个交互式网站，向学习者提供一系列调试难题，使他们以自节奏的方式学习诊断策略和计算概念，并与同龄人合作。该网站还将允许学习者创建自己的调试难题，与朋友，家人和世界分享，从而导致在线社会学习社区。使用此设计，该项目将调查明确指导对学习策略学习基本编程概念的能力以及社会学习特征对学习成果和参与的影响的影响。该项目还将为如何教授调试以及如何将这种教学纳入计算其他方面的教学中提供基本发现。评估将包括受控的实验室实验，涉及200多名美国青少年的年度夏令营以及该网站的全球部署。该项目是提高计算素养和对美国青少年计算职业的兴趣的更大努力的一部分。该项目对社交学习的关注对于扩大计算的参与尤其重要，使青少年可以在支持性和协作环境中学习计算，而不是竞争激烈的环境，这些环境往往会阻止当今许多青少年。此外，由于该网站只需要互联网连接和网络浏览器，而不是软件安装或特殊设备，因此该项目还将改善获得有效的，基于证据的计算教育的访问权限，从而吸引那些只能在公共图书馆或学校访问互联网的学习者。这些努力不仅将提高美国公民在信息技术工作中的全球竞争力，而且还可以帮助更广泛的公民更好地理解和调试日益基于软件的世界。