Designing to Overcome the Asymmetry Problem in Computer and Information Science Service Learning

设计克服计算机与信息科学服务学习中的不对称问题

• 批准号: 1920851
• 负责人: Amy Voida
• 金额: $ 29.63万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 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: 2019-07-01 至 2023-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1920851&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Designing; Overcome; Asymmetry; Problem; Computer

With support from the NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education Program: Education and Human Resources (IUSE: EHR), this project aims to serve the national interest by enabling computer science educators to deliver more valuable service learning experiences. Service learning is an authentic educational experience in which students provide service to a community partner while learning content knowledge, professional skills, and critical thinking. Service learning can also shape the professional identities of students, while improving communication skills, empathy, and civic awareness. Though all of these general outcomes align with educational and accreditation goals in computer and information science, very little empirical research has been conducted to understand instructional design choices in these disciplines that maximize benefits for students, educators, or community partners. In many cases, the needs of community partners are minimized in computer and information science service learning to the detriment of community relationships and student learning. This Engaged Student Learning track Exploration and Design tier project is designed to study the various benefits of service learning in computer and information science to students, educators, and community partners. The project aims to identify best principles in curriculum design for equitably balancing benefits across stakeholders and to co-design a suite of curricular and instructional resources to support educators in delivering more valuable service learning experiences. Computer and information science service learning courses often emphasize student outcomes over community partner outcomes, limiting benefits to both students and communities. The goal of this project is to develop resources for designing curriculum that more equitably balances benefits across stakeholders. This research will triangulate across a mixed-methods research design that will analyze data gathered through surveys, document analyses and interviews to gain a deep understanding of the intentions, costs, and benefits of computer and information science service learning from the viewpoint of educators, students, administrators, and community stakeholders. The project team will incorporate initial research findings into participatory design workshops, the design of curricular resources, and pilot course offerings. A publicly available repository of these resources, broadly advertised, is designed to enable computer and information science educators to create service learning experiences that maximize benefits for students, educators, and community partners. The NSF IUSE: EHR Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. Through the Engaged Student Learning track, the program supports the creation, exploration, and implementation of promising practices and tools.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.

在NSF改善本科STEM教育计划：教育和人力资源（IUSE：EHR）的支持下，该项目旨在通过使计算机科学教育者能够提供更有价值的服务学习经验来服务国家利益。服务学习是一种真实的教育经验，学生在学习内容知识，专业技能和批判性思维的同时为社区合作伙伴提供服务。服务学习还可以塑造学生的专业身份，同时提高沟通技巧，同理心和公民意识。尽管所有这些一般成果都符合计算机和信息科学中的教育和认证目标，但几乎没有进行实证研究来了解这些学科的教学设计选择，从而最大程度地利用了学生，教育工作者或社区合作伙伴的利益。在许多情况下，社区合作伙伴的需求在计算机和信息科学服务学习中被最小化，从而损害了社区关系和学生学习。这个敬业的学生学习轨道探索和设计层项目旨在研究计算机和信息科学中的服务学习对学生，教育工作者和社区合作伙伴的好处。该项目旨在确定课程设计中的最佳原则，以平等地平衡利益相关者的收益，并共同设计一套课程和教学资源，以支持教育工作者提供更有价值的服务学习经验。计算机和信息科学服务学习课程通常会强调学生的成果，而不是社区合作伙伴的成果，从而限制了学生和社区的好处。该项目的目标是开发设计课程的资源，以平衡利益相关者的利益更加平衡。这项研究将在混合方法研究设计中进行三角分析，该设计将通过调查，文档分析和访谈分析数据，以深入了解计算机和信息科学服务的意图，成本和收益，从教育者，学生，管理人员和社区利益相关者的观点中学习。项目团队将将初步的研究结果纳入参与式设计研讨会，课程资源设计和试点课程。这些资源的公开存储库，广泛宣传，旨在使计算机和信息科学教育者能够创造服务学习经验，从而最大程度地利用学生，教育工作者和社区合作伙伴的利益。 NSF IUSE：EHR计划支持研发项目，以提高所有学生STEM教育的有效性。通过参与的学生学习轨道，该计划支持有希望的实践和工具的创建，探索和实施。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估的评估来支持的。

项目成果

CISing Up Service Learning: A Systematic Review of Service Learning Experiences in Computer and Information Science

• DOI: 10.1145/3610776
• 发表时间: 2023-07
• 期刊: ACM Transactions on Computing Education
• 影响因子: 2.4
• 作者: Fujiko Robledo Yamamoto;L. Barker;A. Voida

Why Should Computer and Information Science Programs Require Service Learning?

• DOI: 10.1145/3478431.3499390
• 发表时间: 2022-02
• 期刊: Proceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education - Volume 1
• 作者: M. Kilkenny;C. L. Hovey;Fujiko Robledo Yamamoto;A. Voida;L. Barker