SaTC: EDU: JROTC-CS Project Impact Study

SaTC：EDU：JROTC-CS 项目影响研究

基本信息

批准号：
2028426
负责人：
Leigh DeLyser
金额：
$ 39.92万
依托单位：
The New York City Foundation for Computer Science Education
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2021-01-01 至 2024-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2028426&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
SaTC EDU JROTC CS Project

项目摘要

Cybersecurity talent is critically needed across the U.S. to ensure the protection of data related to defense, labor workforce, healthcare, financial ecosystem, and more. This directly aligns with part of the National Science Foundation’s Strategic Plan "to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense; and for other purposes". To address the need for more cybersecurity professionals, CSforALL (New York City Foundation for Computer Science Education) has launched a privately-funded demonstration project to include cybersecurity as a part of courses that Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) students take in high school. The project now proposed aligns the ongoing demonstration project with rigorous research to investigate the impacts of the JROTC computer science (JROTC-CS) program on student and institutional outcomes for cybersecurity and computer science education. The project will specifically examine the impact of the JROTC-CS program across varying contexts, such as race/ethnicity, gender, socio-economic status, access to broadband, and geographic location. The results will inform adaptation of the program’s design and implementation to ensure that the program provides equitable opportunities to students to learn computer science and cybersecurity. The outcome of this study will include new instruments for the collection of data to measure the impact of a cybersecurity education experience on high school students. It will also contribute to our understanding of how these education experiences impact academic achievement and interest in pursuing additional courses and careers in cybersecurity and how to improve cybersecurity education in high schools.This three-year impact study will address two overarching research questions. First, it will examine the ways in which the JROTC-CS experience impacts the cognitive (e.g. knowledge and skills) and non-cognitive (e.g. social and emotional behaviors) development of JROTC cadets. Second, it will examine the ways in which the JROTC-CS experience impacts the school curriculum program in Computer Science and Cybersecurity. For example, does the JROTC-CS program lead to an increase in: the number of courses in computer science and cybersecurity that are offered, awareness of inequities in these courses, additional professional development experiences for teachers, or additional students at the schools who are engaged in computer science and cybersecurity? Aligning the current JROTC-CS demonstration project with research on multiple and confounding factors will provide evidence for ensuring a high-quality improvement science model that improves implementation of the project as it scales.This project is supported by the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program, which funds proposals that address cybersecurity and privacy, and in this case specifically cybersecurity education. The SaTC program aligns with the Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan and the National Privacy Research Strategy to protect and preserve the growing social and economic benefits of cyber systems while ensuring security and privacy.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.

美国各地迫切需要网络安全人才，以确保保护与国防、劳动力、医疗保健、金融生态系统等相关的数据，这与国家科学基金会“促进国家健康、繁荣、为了满足对更多网络安全专业人员的需求，CSforALL（纽约市计算机科学教育基金会）启动了一个私人资助的示范项目，将网络安全纳入其中初级预备役军官培训课程该项目现在提议将正在进行的示范项目与严格的研究结合起来，以调查 JROTC 计算机科学 (JROTC-CS) 计划对网络安全和计算机科学教育项目的学生和机构成果的影响。将专门研究 JROTC-CS 计划在不同背景下的影响，例如种族/民族、性别、社会经济地位、宽带接入和地理位置。结果将为该计划的设计和实施的调整提供信息，以确保该计划提供这项研究的成果将包括用于收集数据的新工具，以衡量网络安全教育经历对高中生的影响，这也将有助于我们了解这些教育的方式。经历会影响学术成就、追求网络安全方面的其他课程和职业的兴趣，以及如何改善高中网络安全教育。这项为期三年的影响研究将解决两个首要研究问题，首先，它将研究 JROTC-CS 的方式。经验影响认知（例如知识和技能）并且其次，它将研究 JROTC-CS 经验如何影响学校计算机科学和网络安全课程计划。增加：提供的计算机科学和网络安全课程的数量、对这些课程不平等的认识、教师的额外专业发展经验或学校从事计算机科学和网络安全的更多学生？当前的 JROTC-CS 示范项目对多种混杂因素进行研究，将为确保高质量的改进科学模型提供证据，从而随着项目规模的扩大改进项目的实施。该项目得到了安全可信网络空间 (SaTC) 计划的支持，该计划资助解决网络安全和隐私问题的提案，在这种情况下，特别是网络安全教育项目与联邦网络安全研究与发展战略计划和国家隐私研究战略相一致，以保护和维护网络系统不断增长的社会和经济效益。确保安全和隐私。这授予 NSF 的法定使命，并通过评估反映使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

期刊论文数量（4）

专著数量（0）

科研奖励数量（0）

会议论文数量（0）

专利数量（0）

Practitioner Perspectives on COVID-19’s Impact on Computer Science Education Among High Schools Serving Students from Lower and Higher Income Families

从业者对 COVID-19 对为低收入和高收入家庭学生提供服务的高中计算机科学教育影响的看法

DOI：
10.1145/3557047
发表时间：
2022-01
期刊：
ACM Transactions on Computing Education
影响因子：
2.4
作者：
McGill, Monica M.;Snow, Eric;Vaval, Luronne;DeLyser, Leigh Ann;Wortel;Thompson, Angelica
通讯作者：
Thompson, Angelica

Comparing Access and Participation Outcomes of Schools Engaged in a Multi-school CS and Cybersecurity Intervention (Evaluation)

比较参与多学校 CS 和网络安全干预的学校的访问和参与结果（评估）