CUE Ethics: Collaborative Research: An inclusive and In-Depth Computing Curriculum to help Non-majors Learn Small Patterns to Solve Big Problem

CUE 伦理：协作研究：包容性和深入的计算课程，帮助非专业人士学习小模式解决大问题

• 批准号: 1935167
• 负责人: Yekaterina Kharitonova
• 金额: $ 7.48万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Barbara
• 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: 2019-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1935167&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CUE; Ethics; Collaborative; Research; inclusive

This project proposes to form a Networked Improvement Community (NIC) to design, deploy and evaluate a computing curriculum designed for non-computer science majors across a diverse range of academic partnership institutions. It is organized as a partnership of four institutions: California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly); University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB); University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS); and College of Charleston. The project is structured around two goals: (a) increasing exposure to computing and computational thinking among all students, and better preparing these students for professional careers in fields requiring a certain level of computing, and (b) diversifying the population of students enrolled in computer science courses. The project reframes computer science around human-centric learning goals in fifteen modules that will be implemented across the collaborating institutions. The project is grounded in the complementary and unique academic histories of the partnering organizations. The project addresses the need to develop a strong, diverse, national computing-literate workforce. The NIC's objective is to build a series of modules, each targeting a specific aspect or a group of related aspects of computational thinking, tightly coupled with multiple domain examples. Each module will include an ethics perspective on the material. Project activities include emphasize flexibility to adapt to the context of participating organizations and to reach a variety of major disciplines through domain-specific examples and assignments, as well as broadening participation and ethical concerns. Partner institutions will organize these modules into coursework that best matches individual institution?s context, and take into consideration variations such as term length, local strengths and campus synergies, and typical number of contact hours in a course. The organizations will work jointly on offering, testing, and evaluating the sequence of computational thinking modules. In addition to a commitment to work together digitally, the NIC includes two in-person workshops for intensive shared time, testing, and evaluation. The project will evaluate the curriculum both locally and globally for factors that impact underrepresented students and overall program efficacy compared to a control group. This project has the potential to serve as a model of a networked improvement community in the area of CS education for non-CS majors. It focuses on the need to develop a large, diverse workforce able to address computing problems across a wide range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary problem domains. This IUSE: CUE project is co-funded by EHR/DUE and CISE Directorates CNS, CCF, IIS, and OAC, reflecting the project's alignment with the broader goals of the IUSE: EHR program in DUE and complementary programs in CISE.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.

该项目提议组建一个网络改进社区（NIC），以设计、部署和评估为各种学术合作机构的非计算机科学专业设计的计算课程。它由四所机构合作组成： 加州理工州立大学 (Cal Poly)；加州大学圣塔芭芭拉分校（UCSB）；科罗拉多大学科罗拉多斯普林斯分校 (UCCS)；和查尔斯顿学院。该项目围绕两个目标构建：（a）增加所有学生对计算和计算思维的接触，并为这些学生更好地为需要一定计算水平的领域的职业生涯做好准备，以及（b）使就读的学生群体多样化计算机科学课程。该项目围绕以人为中心的学习目标重新构建了计算机科学，分为十五个模块，这些模块将在合作机构中实施。该项目以合作组织互补且独特的学术历史为基础。该项目满足了培养一支强大、多元化、具有计算素养的全国性劳动力队伍的需求。 NIC 的目标是构建一系列模块，每个模块针对计算思维的一个特定方面或一组相关方面，并与多个领域示例紧密结合。每个模块都将包括对材料的道德观点。项目活动包括强调灵活性，以适应参与组织的环境，通过特定领域的示例和作业来达到各种主要学科，以及扩大参与和道德问题。合作机构将把这些模块组织成最适合各个机构背景的课程作业，并考虑学期长度、当地优势和校园协同效应以及课程中典型的接触时间等变化。这些组织将共同致力于提供、测试和评估计算思维模块序列。除了致力于数字化合作之外，NIC 还举办两次现场研讨会，以进行密集的共享时间、测试和评估。该项目将评估本地和全球的课程，以了解与对照组相比影响代表性不足的学生和整体项目效果的因素。该项目有潜力成为非计算机专业计算机科学教育领域网络改进社区的典范。它的重点是需要培养一支庞大、多样化的劳动力队伍，能够解决广泛的学科和跨学科问题领域的计算问题。该 IUSE：CUE 项目由 EHR/DUE 和 CISE 理事会 CNS、CCF、IIS 和 OAC 共同资助，反映了该项目与 IUSE 的更广泛目标的一致性：DUE 中的 EHR 计划和 CISE 中的补充计划。该奖项反映了通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，NSF 的法定使命被认为值得支持。