Pairing Atlanta High School Teachers with HBCU Computer Science Students to Train Them on AP Computer Science Principles

将亚特兰大高中教师与 HBCU 计算机科学学生配对，对他们进行 AP 计算机科学原理培训

• 批准号: 1837541
• 负责人: Kinnis Gosha
• 金额: $ 29.96万
• 依托单位: Morehouse College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-01-01 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1837541&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Pairing; Atlanta; Teachers; HBCU; Computer

Morehouse College proposes to explore outcomes of a novel teacher professional development (PD) program that prepares in-service high school teachers to teach the Advance Placement Computer Science Principles (AP CSP) course, the Beauty and Joy of Computing (BJC), with support from undergraduate computer science (CS) majors. The work leverages longstanding relationships between members of the Atlanta University Center Consortium (Morehouse College, Spelman College, and Clark Atlanta University), and the Atlanta Public Schools (APS). APS predominantly serves and employs African American and other minority students and teachers. Likewise, the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) of the Atlanta University Center primarily serve minority undergraduate students. Through this unique model, minority in-service, high school teachers will receive BJC professional development and support from minority undergraduate CS students in teaching their majority-minority AP CSP classes. The undergraduates will serve both as teaching assistants for the new CS teachers and as role models for the students. In turn, minority APS students will receive rigorous CS instruction made relevant and contextualized within their culture. This project will study the effects of in-person undergraduate teaching assistants during PD for and implementation of the BJC curriculum within minority populations. It will examine the outcomes of these teaching assistant/teacher relationships, examining changes in teachers' CS content knowledge, understanding of careers in computing, confidence in teaching CS, and success in recruiting and retaining students of color. Likewise, it will examine effects on the undergraduate student teaching assistants in terms of ability to provide instructional support, levels of civic engagement, CS content knowledge, and professional identity.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.

莫尔豪斯学院提议探索一项新颖的教师专业发展 (PD) 计划的成果，该计划旨在帮助在职高中教师教授先修计算机科学原理 (AP CSP) 课程、计算之美与乐趣 (BJC)，并提供支持来自计算机科学（CS）专业的本科生。这项工作利用了亚特兰大大学中心联盟成员（莫尔豪斯学院、斯佩尔曼学院和克拉克亚特兰大大学）和亚特兰大公立学校 (APS) 之间的长期关系。 APS 主要服务和雇用非裔美国人和其他少数族裔的学生和教师。同样，亚特兰大大学中心的历史黑人学院和大学 (HBCU) 主要为少数族裔本科生提供服务。通过这种独特的模式，少数族裔在职高中教师将获得 BJC 专业发展，并获得少数族裔本科 CS 学生在教授以少数族裔为主的 AP CSP 课程时的支持。本科生将担任新任计算机科学教师的助教，并成为学生的榜样。反过来，少数族裔 APS 学生将接受严格的 CS 教学，这些教学与他们的文化相关并符合其背景。该项目将研究在少数族裔群体中 BJC 课程的 PD 和实施期间现场本科生助教的影响。它将检查这些助教/教师关系的结果，检查教师计算机科学内容知识的变化、对计算机职业的理解、对计算机科学教学的信心，以及在招募和留住有色人种学生方面的成功。同样，它将审查对本科生助教在提供教学支持的能力、公民参与水平、计算机科学内容知识和职业认同方面的影响。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

项目成果

Virtual app development for adolescents during COVID-19

COVID-19 期间青少年的虚拟应用程序开发

• DOI: 10.1145/3409334.3452089
• 发表时间: 2021-04
• 期刊: ACM SE: ACM Southeast Regional Conference
• 作者: Mackroy, Kaylah;Gosha, Kinnis
• 通讯作者: Gosha, Kinnis

The Effect of Program Cost on Minority Student Virtual Computing Outreach Participation

项目成本对少数民族学生虚拟计算推广参与的影响

• DOI: 10.1145/3478432.3499128
• 发表时间: 2022-03
• 期刊: SIGCSE 2022: Proceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2
• 作者: Mackroy, Kaylah;Nelson, Whitney;Gosha, Kinnis
• 通讯作者: Gosha, Kinnis