New to NSF: Recruiting and Retaining Students into Computing

NSF 新手：招募和留住计算机专业的学生

基本信息

批准号：
1832433
负责人：
Jeong Yang
金额：
$ 24.99万
依托单位：
Texas A&M University-San Antonio
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2018-10-01 至 2023-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1832433&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
New NSF Recruiting Retaining Students

项目摘要

The Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program (HSI Program) aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also generate new knowledge on how to achieve these aims. This project at Texas A&M University-San Antonio will advance the aims of the HSI Program by increasing the retention and completion rates of students in computer science and to better equip them to achieve careers cyber security. The project also plans to increase the number of transfer of students who transfer from two-year colleges into computer science programs at the University. The project plans to integrate cyber security topics throughout the entire computer science curriculum, so that students will obtain an NSA Cyber Defense Education certificate upon graduation. This certification can increase the competitiveness of the graduates in high-demand jobs. The objectives of this program are to broaden and strengthen the pipeline of students, including Hispanic students, entering the field of computing and cyber security. To meet workforce demands, the project will develop a computer science undergraduate computer science program in which cyber security topics are integrated throughout the curriculum. The project also seeks to increase the retention rates and strengthen the marketability of students by enabling student to automatically earn a certificate in cyber security education upon graduation. Computer science researchers will collaborate with curriculum and instruction researchers to develop cyber security modules for use throughout the computer science curriculum. These modules will contextualize computing topics via a cyber security lens. To assist in the retention of students, the cyber security modules will use Model Eliciting Activities, a teaching and learning methodology that has been demonstrated to be particularly effective for women and other groups that are underrepresented in engineering. The project includes a partnership between the team of computing and education researchers at Texas A&M University-San Antonio and the computing departments of rural Laredo Community College and urban San Antonio College, both of which are Hispanic-serving community colleges. The community college partnerships will increase opportunities for student transfer, while the curriculum changes and use of inclusive pedagogy should increase the likelihood that students persist and graduate with degrees in computing that can enable them to launch careers within computing fields. Through a design experiment methodology, the project will investigate the impact of Model Eliciting Activities and the incorporation of cyber security on instructor effectiveness and student attitudes and performance. This research results could inform the practices of other computer science and related programs that seek to increase student success and diversity in computing programs.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

改善的本科STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构计划（HSI计划）旨在增强本科STEM教育和HSIS的建设能力。 HSI计划支持的项目还将产生有关如何实现这些目标的新知识。得克萨斯州A＆M大学桑·安东尼奥（Antonio）的该项目将通过提高学生在计算机科学领域的保留率和完成率，并更好地使他们能够实现职业网络安全，从而提高HSI计划的目标。该项目还计划增加从两年学院转移到大学计算机科学课程的学生的转学数量。该项目计划在整个计算机科学课程中整合网络安全主题，以便学生在毕业后获得NSA网络防御教育证书。该认证可以提高毕业生在高需求工作中的竞争力。该计划的目标是扩大和加强学生的管道，包括西班牙裔学生，进入计算和网络安全领域。为了满足劳动力需求，该项目将开发一项计算机科学本科计算机科学计划，其中整个课程都集成了网络安全主题。该项目还旨在通过使学生能够在毕业后自动获得网络安全教育证书来提高学生的保留率并增强学生的销售能力。计算机科学研究人员将与课程和指导研究人员合作，以开发整个计算机科学课程中使用的网络安全模块。这些模块将通过网络安全镜头将计算主题进行环境化。为了协助学生的保留，网络安全模块将使用模型启发活动，这是一种教学方法，该方法已被证明对工程中代表性不足的妇女和其他群体特别有效。该项目包括得克萨斯州A＆M大学 - 安东尼奥的计算机团队与教育研究人员之间的合作伙伴关系，以及农村拉雷多社区学院和圣安东尼奥城市的计算部门，这两者都是西班牙裔社区学院。社区学院的伙伴关系将增加学生转学的机会，而课程的变化和包容性教学法的使用应增加学生在计算机上坚持不懈并毕业的可能性，从而使他们能够在计算领域内启动职业。通过设计实验方法，该项目将研究模型引起的活动的影响，并将网络安全纳入教师有效性，学生态度和表现。该研究结果可以为其他计算机科学和相关计划的实践提供依据，这些计划旨在提高学生在计算计划中的成功和多样性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并且使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，被认为值得通过评估来提供支持。