Collaborative Research: Transforming Computer Science Education Research Through Use of Appropriate Empirical Research Methods: Mentoring and Tutorials

合作研究：通过使用适当的实证研究方法来改变计算机科学教育研究：指导和教程

• 批准号: 1525373
• 负责人: Jeffrey Carver
• 金额: $ 78.03万
• 依托单位: University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-01 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1525373&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Transforming; Computer; Science

The significance and importance of this project resides in its focus on increasing the value and effectiveness of Computer Science Education (CSEd) by providing computer science educators with the tools and the mentoring necessary to properly evaluate novel teaching methods. As the demand for computer science graduates increases, educators must effectively educate students at scale, which requires innovation in teaching and learning techniques. This project will help move the CSEd community from reflective teaching to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning by increasing education research rigor and replication frequency. As a result, the computer science community will build theories and practices about how best to educate students to meet workforce needs for computer science talent. In the context of the NSF taxonomy of Education Research this project resides in the Foundational Research category, i.e., one that develops innovations in technology that will influence and inform research and development in different contexts.The goal of this project is to transform empirical CSEd research by creating and supporting a community of CSEd researchers through: (1) creation and curation of laboratory packages to facilitate empirical CSEd research; (2) facilitation of cohorts of 10-12 educators who are mentored in developing and executing an empirical CSEd research study; and (3) development and presentation of tutorials on empirical research methods at computer science and, in particular, CSEd conferences. Laboratory packages are aids that provide researchers with a research question, a methodology for designing and executing a study, tools and resources to replicate the study, and results of previous related studies. The faculty cohorts using these laboratory packages will have a more-focused interaction during a summer session to develop their particular education research study with a follow-up workshop to report and discuss results. Finally, the tutorials and workshop results will allow for broader dissemination of the key concepts of empirical CSEd research to the larger computer science community.

该项目的重要性和重要性在于通过为计算机科学教育工作者提供适当评估新颖的教学方法所必需的工具和指导来提高计算机科学教育（CSED）的价值和有效性。随着计算机科学毕业生的需求增加，教育工作者必须有效地对学生进行大规模教育，这需要在教学技术方面进行创新。该项目将通过增加教育研究的严格和复制频率来帮助将CSED社区从反思性教学转变为教学和学习的奖学金。结果，计算机科学界将建立有关如何最好地教育学生满足计算机科学人才需求的理论和实践。 In the context of the NSF taxonomy of Education Research this project resides in the Foundational Research category, i.e., one that develops innovations in technology that will influence and inform research and development in different contexts.The goal of this project is to transform empirical CSEd research by creating and supporting a community of CSEd researchers through: (1) creation and curation of laboratory packages to facilitate empirical CSEd research; （2）在开发和执行经验研究研究方面受到指导的10-12名教育者的促进； （3）关于计算机科学，尤其是CSED会议的实证研究方法教程的开发和介绍。实验室包是为研究人员提供研究问题的辅助工具，一种设计和执行研究的方法，复制研究的工具和资源以及先前相关研究的结果。使用这些实验室套餐的教师队列将在夏季课程中进行更加专注的互动，以开发其特定的教育研究，并通过后续研讨会进行报告和讨论结果。最后，教程和研讨会的结果将使对更大的计算机科学界的经验CSSED研究的关键概念更广泛地传播。