Building Multi-level Alignment in Local Computer Science for All Implementations for Sustainability

为所有可持续发展的实施建立本地计算机科学的多层次协调

• 批准号: 1738675
• 负责人: Leigh DeLyser
• 金额: $ 29.98万
• 依托单位: The New York City Foundation for Computer Science Education
• 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: 2017-09-01 至 2020-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1738675&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Building; Multi; level; Alignment; Local

Computer science (CS) education in the United States is a rapidly evolving exercise in educational change. Local initiatives to bring quality CS education to all students in cities and states are emerging as communities and school districts respond to the growing desire to include computer science in K-12 education settings. Successful initiatives are often supported by non-profit organizations or district leadership that possess an understanding of both CS content and education. The multi-pronged approach has positioned the CS for All movement to make rapid progress in the goal of broadening access to computing education for K-12 learners. However, this rapid expansion has also created significant difficulties, as the options available to schools and teachers have outpaced the supports necessary for a school district, without an expert in CS education, to thoughtfully select CS education partners to facilitate teacher professional development and curricular implementation. Selection of CS education partners requires an understanding of how to coordinate vision, implementation, and curriculum decisions. Thus, this project will create a research-practice partnership (RPP) to support K-8 schools in developing coordinated visions and multi-grade implementation plans that facilitate their development of sustainable CS programs that scale to broader participation. Through research and implementation, the project will contribute to an understanding of CS education implementation choices at the K-8 level. These implementation choices are key to sustainable CSforAll initiatives around the country. The project will contribute to the understanding of that decision making process, supports that can help schools and districts in the process, and measures for schools and districts to use to assess the alignment of their ongoing implementation to community visions. These outcomes will contribute fundamental insights about how to foster systemic educational change efforts as they relate to CS education. The research, a descriptive study, will focus on documenting and understanding the process of visioning, aligned decision making, and implementation moves that can facilitate broader participation in K-8 computing education. Four project goals guide the Researcher Practitioner Partnership (RPP) work: Goal 1: Establish an RPP between the CSforAll Consortium, New York University, and two Boards of Cooperative Educational Services in rural and suburban New York to support CS for All efforts, with an eye toward long-term partnership and future, iterative work. Goal 2: Design and pilot visioning, decision-making, and implementation routines that can provide an integrated toolkit for facilitating K-8 school and district decision making around CS for All implementation. Goal 3: Develop a set of practical measures that can provide fast, formative metrics for districts and schools to evaluate the alignment and implementation of their CS for All initiatives over time. Goal 4: Conduct research on the guided decision-making and implementation processes that the partnership undertakes that will result in scholarly insights about enabling more nuanced and robust CS for All implementation decisions that can be scalable, sustainable, and reach broader populations of learners.

美国的计算机科学（CS）教育是教育变革中快速发展的实践。随着社区和学区响应将计算机科学纳入 K-12 教育环境的日益增长的愿望，为城市和州的所有学生提供优质计算机科学教育的地方举措正在兴起。成功的举措通常得到了解 CS 内容和教育的非营利组织或地区领导层的支持。多管齐下的方法使“全民计算机科学”运动在扩大 K-12 学习者接受计算机教育的目标方面取得了快速进展。然而，这种快速扩张也带来了巨大的困难，因为学校和教师的选择超出了学区所需的支持，而没有计算机科学教育专家，无法深思熟虑地选择计算机科学教育合作伙伴，以促进教师专业发展和课程实施。选择计算机科学教育合作伙伴需要了解如何协调愿景、实施和课程决策。因此，该项目将建立研究与实践合作伙伴关系 (RPP)，以支持 K-8 学校制定协调的愿景和多年级实施计划，以促进其开发可持续的 CS 项目，扩大参与范围。通过研究和实施，该项目将有助于了解 K-8 级别的计算机科学教育实施选择。这些实施选择是全国范围内可持续的 CSforAll 举措的关键。该项目将有助于理解决策过程，为在此过程中为学校和学区提供帮助的支持，以及学校和学区用来评估其持续实施与社区愿景的一致性的措施。这些成果将为如何促进与计算机科学教育相关的系统性教育变革努力提供基本见解。这项研究是一项描述性研究，重点是记录和理解愿景、一致决策和实施举措的过程，以促进更广泛地参与 K-8 计算机教育。四个项目目标指导研究人员从业者伙伴关系 (RPP) 的工作： 目标 1：在 CSforAll 联盟、纽约大学和纽约农村和郊区的两个合作教育服务委员会之间建立 RPP，以支持 CS for All 的努力，并着眼于长期合作伙伴关系和未来的迭代工作。目标 2：设计和试点愿景、决策和实施例程，以提供集成工具包，促进 K-8 学校和学区围绕全民 CS 实施进行决策。目标 3：制定一套实用措施，为学区和学校提供快速、形成性的指标，以评估其“全民计算机科学”计划随着时间的推移的一致性和实施情况。目标 4：对合作伙伴承担的指导性决策和实施流程进行研究，这将产生学术见解，以实现更细致、更稳健的全民计算机科学实施决策，这些决策可扩展、可持续，并覆盖更广泛的学习者群体。

项目成果

Negotiating Equity Priorities Within Systems Change: A Case Study of a District-Level Initiative to Implement K12 Computer Science Education

在系统变革中协商公平优先事项：实施 K12 计算机科学教育的地区级举措案例研究

• DOI: 10.1109/mcse.2020.3008434
• 发表时间: 2020-09-01
• 期刊: Computing in Science & Engineering
• 影响因子: 2.1
• 作者: Rafi Santo;Leigh Ann Delyser;June Ahn
• 通讯作者: June Ahn

Asking "CS4What?" as a Basis for CS4All: Workshop Tools to Support Sustainable K-12 CS Implementations

问“CS4什么？”

• DOI: 10.1145/3159450.3159644
• 发表时间: 2018-02
• 期刊: SIGCSE'18: Proceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
• 作者: Santo, Rafi;Vogel, Sara;DeLyser, Leigh Ann;Ahn, June
• 通讯作者: Ahn, June

Equity in the Who, How and What of Computer Science Education: K12 School District Conceptualizations of Equity in ‘CS for All’ Initiatives

计算机科学教育的主体、方式和内容中的公平：K12 学区“全民计算机科学”计划中的公平概念

• DOI: 10.1109/respect46404.2019.8985901
• 发表时间: 2019-02-01
• 期刊: 2019 Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT)
• 作者: Rafi Santo;Leigh Ann Delyser;June Ahn;Anthony Pellicone;Julia Aguiar;Stephanie B. Wortel
• 通讯作者: Stephanie B. Wortel