Collaborative Research: CSAwesome: Transitioning Teachers from AP CSP to CSA with Differentiated Professional Development

合作研究：CSAwesome：通过差异化专业发展将教师从 AP CSP 过渡到 CSA

• 批准号: 2031362
• 负责人: Beryl Hoffman
• 金额: $ 4.17万
• 依托单位: College of Our Lady of the Elms
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-10-01 至 2023-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2031362&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; CSAwesome; Transitioning; Teachers

The College of St. Scholastica and Elms College will lead a small, High School Strand Research-Practitioner Partnership (RPP) to investigate how to best prepare and support teachers who are new to CS as they transition from teaching the AP Computer Science Principles (CSP) course to AP CSA Java course. Rising demand for high school AP computer science (CS) courses, initially for CS Principles and now for CSA, has highlighted a need for more teachers to be trained in the more advanced CSA course. However, this task is challenging because CSA has a steeper learning curve as, unlike blocks-based programming environments, the text-based nature of Java introduces syntax errors and another layer of complexity in writing and debugging programs. Well-designed differentiated professional development (PD) is necessary to meet individual teachers at their level and successfully build their skills and confidence to teach CSA. The RPP consists of researchers who are College Board endorsed providers of the CSAwesome AP CSA curriculum and professional development (PD), and practitioners who are AP CSA master teachers who are leading differentiated CSAwesome pilot PD. The RPP team will use a design-based implementation research (DBIR) RPP model utilizing an iterative approach to refine the CSAwesome curriculum and professional development to meet the needs of teachers transitioning from AP CSP to CSA. The RPP’s goal is to Increase the number of trained teachers (60 over 2 years) who can teach AP CSA and their ability to recruit and support diverse students in order to broaden participation in advanced CS courses.CSAwesome will utilize design-based implementation research in a researcher-practitioner partnership (RPP) to refine curriculum and PD to support the transition from CSP to CSA for both teachers and students. The goals for this project include 1) establishing a sustainable RPP community of researchers and practitioners focused on supporting the transition of new to CS teachers from CSP to CSA, 2) developing and implementing differentiated PD that includes equity-based pedagogical content knowledge for 60 teachers transitioning from teaching CSP to CSA, and 3) improving the CSAwesome AP CSA curriculum and teacher resources to support the transition from CSP to CSA using a co-design approach with practitioners and researchers. The project will study to what extent the differentiated PD and curriculum support teachers in gaining the content knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge to teach AP CSA and, in particular, support the needs of low-income and female students in computing.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.

圣科拉斯卡斯塔学院和榆树学院将领导一项小型高中研究 - 研究证明者合作伙伴关系（RPP），以调查如何最好地准备和支持CS新老师，因为他们从教授AP计算机科学原理（CSP）课程（CSP）课程到AP CSA Java课程。最初针对CS原则的高中AP计算机科学（CS）课程的需求不断上升，目前是CSA的，它强调了在更高级的CSA课程中需要对更多的教师进行培训。但是，此任务是挑战，因为CSA具有钢铁学习曲线，因为与基于块的编程环境不同，Java的基于文本的性质会引入语法错误，并在写作和调试程序中引入了另一层复杂性。精心设计的差异化专业发展（PD）对于在其水平上会见单个老师并成功地建立了他们的技能和信心来教授CSA是必要的。 RPP由大学董事会的研究人员组成，他们认可CSAWSOWE AP CSA课程和专业发展（PD）的提供者，以及领导差异化CSAWSOLY PILOT PD的AP CSA大师级教师的从业者。 RPP团队将采用基于设计的实施研究（DBIR）模型，该模型利用迭代方法来完善CSAWSOWE课程和专业发展，以满足从AP CSP过渡到CSA的教师的需求。 RPP的目标是增加受过训练的教师的数量（2年内60年），他们可以教授AP CSA及其招募和支持潜水员学生的能力，以扩大参与高级CS课程的参与。CSAWSOWE将利用基于设计的实施研究在研究人员实践者合作伙伴关系（RPP）中，以优化课程和PD教师从CRECTITION和PD cavers coss confrientition for Cressiention cors cors cors coss coss cos and csa and capa and capa and ca ca and capa and capa and capa and ca。 The goals for this project include 1) establishing a sustainable RPP community of researchers and practitioners focused on supporting the transition of new to CS teachers from CSP to CSA, 2) developing and implementing differentiated PD that includes equity-based pedagogical content knowledge for 60 teachers transitioning from teaching CSP to CSA, and 3) improving the CSAwesome AP CSA curriculum and teacher resources to support the transition from CSP to CSA using a与从业者和研究人员共同设计方法。该项目将在何种程度上研究差异化的PD和课程支持教师在获得内容知识和教学知识知识方面的教师，以教授AP CSA，特别是支持低收入和女学生在计算机上的需求。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用该基金会的知识优点和广泛的criperia来评估来表达NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过评估来支持的。

项目成果

CSAwesome Java Curriculum

CSAwesome Java 课程

• DOI: 10.1145/3478432.3499235
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Proceedings of the 53rd 2022 ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
• 作者: Ericson, Barbara;Hoffman, Beryl
• 通讯作者: Hoffman, Beryl