Medium RPP, High School Strand: Collaborative Research: AccesCSforAll: Making High School Computer Science Accessible

中等 RPP，高中分支：合作研究：AccesCSforAll：让高中计算机科学变得可访问

• 批准号: 2122189
• 负责人: Richard Ladner
• 金额: $ 50.01万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 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: 2021-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2122189&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Medium; RPP; Strand; Collaborative; Research

The University of Washington and the University of Nevada Las Vegas will collaborate on AccessCSforAll with the goal of including more K-12 students with disabilities in computing classes. The CS for All initiative must address the approximately nine million K-12 students who are identified as having a disability under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) or Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. These students should have access to quality computer science education, but there are often significant barriers to their participation. Some of these barriers include inaccessible tools and curriculum. Building on the team's previous work with developing an accessible version of AP Computer Science Principles (CSP) and leading the professional development for teachers who specialize in students with disabilities, AccessCSforAll will develop new tools and curricula that can be adopted by a variety of development and curriculum providers. In addition, AccessCSforAll will extend its researcher practitioner partnership (RPP) to include CS curriculum providers, in-service and pre-service providers, and organizations that support K-12 CS teachers. This partnership will lead to the adoption of more accessible tools and curricula in the teaching of computer science nationally. This project includes partnerships with developers of accessible tools and curricula for K-12 students and will work as a national resource for CS teachers to help them better include students with disabilities in their classes. It will create and deploy an age appropriate accessible blocks-based programming environment for the web called Quorum Blocks. Quorum Blocks will allow students to code accessibly in blocks mode or text mode. Curriculum providers and teachers can embed it into any curriculum of their own design. The primary goal of the project is thus to scale up past efforts to make computer science classes equitable and welcoming to all students in the United States. This expansion will work towards reaching the approximately 16% of high school students who have a disability. AccessCSforAll represents one of the first comprehensive steps to provide that scaling up to include these students in computer science.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.

华盛顿大学和内华达大学拉斯维加斯分校将合作开发 AccessCSforAll，目标是让更多的 K-12 残疾学生参加计算机课程。 “全民计算机科学”计划必须解决大约 900 万 K-12 学生的问题，这些学生根据《残疾人教育法》(IDEA) 或《康复法》第 504 条被认定为有残疾。这些学生应该有机会接受高质量的计算机科学教育，但他们的参与往往存在重大障碍。其中一些障碍包括无法获得的工具和课程。 AccessCSforAll 团队之前开发了 AP 计算机科学原理 (CSP) 的无障碍版本，并领导专门针对残疾学生的教师进行专业发展，在此基础上，AccessCSforAll 将开发新的工具和课程，可供各种发展和教育机构采用。课程提供者。此外，AccessCSforAll 将扩大其研究实践者合作伙伴关系 (RPP)，以涵盖计算机科学课程提供商、在职和职前提供商以及支持 K-12 计算机科学教师的组织。这种伙伴关系将导致在全国计算机科学教学中采用更易于使用的工具和课程。该项目包括与 K-12 学生无障碍工具和课程开发商合作，并将作为计算机科学教师的国家资源，帮助他们更好地将残疾学生纳入课堂。它将创建并部署一个适合年龄的可访问的基于块的网络编程环境，称为 Quorum Blocks。 Quorum Blocks 将允许学生在块模式或文本模式下轻松编码。课程提供者和教师可以将其嵌入到他们自己设计的任何课程中。因此，该项目的主要目标是扩大过去的努力，使计算机科学课程公平并欢迎所有美国学生。此次扩展将致力于覆盖约 16% 的残疾高中生。 AccessCSforAll 代表了将这些学生纳入计算机科学领域的首批综合步骤之一。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进行评估，被认为值得支持。