I-Corps: Learning Intervention for Introductory Computer Science

I-Corps：计算机科学入门学习干预

• 批准号: 1741045
• 负责人: Jason Freeman
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-06-15 至 2019-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1741045&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Learning; Intervention; Introductory; Computer

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is to provide K-12 schools with a learning environment, curriculum, and teacher training to expand and improve computer science education and to encourage a diverse student population to pursue further studies in computing. Computer science has become a core 21st century skill critical to careers both within and beyond the tech industry, but K-12 education has yet to meet increasing demand from industry and from parents to teach computing, and school districts still struggle to adequately train teachers and to engage students in computer science. This project provides a simple and easy-to-use solution that integrates music with computer science to drive student engagement. Moreover, this approach contributes to a diverse computer science pipeline by engaging female and minority students through an emphasis on creativity and real-world applications. Today there is a market for schools to train teachers, and to buy materials and tools to teach computer science.This I-Corps project leverages an online learning environment, curriculum, and teacher training designed for any introductory computing course from late elementary through to the college level, along with a body of research assessing the effects of this learning intervention on student content knowledge and engagement in computing. The web-based learning platform includes a code editor, a multi-track audio player, an audio loop library, an interactive textbook, and mechanisms for students to share and collaborate, along with curricular, training, and grading tools for teachers. Mixed-methods research has shown significant student gains in both content knowledge and engagement across gender and demographic groups when learning with this approach, with particularly large gains in engagement for female students. Students ascribe their increased engagement in computing to the creative, expressive, and real-world approach of the intervention through its combination of popular music and music production techniques with computational thinking and programming in industry-relevant coding languages.

该 I-Corps 项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力是为 K-12 学校提供学习环境、课程和教师培训，以扩大和改进计算机科学教育，并鼓励多元化的学生群体继续深造计算机领域。计算机科学已成为 21 世纪的核心技能，对科技行业内外的职业至关重要，但 K-12 教育尚未满足行业和家长对计算机教学日益增长的需求，学区仍难以对教师和技术进行充分培训。让学生参与计算机科学。该项目提供了一个简单易用的解决方案，将音乐与计算机科学相结合，以提高学生的参与度。此外，这种方法通过强调创造力和现实世界的应用来吸引女性和少数族裔学生，从而有助于多样化的计算机科学渠道。如今，学校有一个培训教师、购买材料和工具来教授计算机科学的市场。这个 I-Corps 项目利用了在线学习环境、课程和教师培训，专为从小学后期到高中的任何入门计算机课程而设计。大学水平，以及一系列研究评估这种学习干预对学生内容知识和计算参与的影响。基于网络的学习平台包括代码编辑器、多轨音频播放器、音频循环库、交互式教科书、供学生共享和协作的机制，以及供教师使用的课程、培训和评分工具。混合方法研究表明，使用这种方法学习时，学生在不同性别和人口群体的内容知识和参与度方面都取得了显着的进步，其中女学生的参与度获得了特别大的进步。学生们将他们对计算的更多参与归因于创造性、表现力和现实世界的干预方法，通过将流行音乐和音乐制作技术与计算思维和行业相关编码语言的编程相结合。