BPC- A: Socially Responsible Computing: Promoting Latinx student retention via community engagement in early CS courses

BPC-A：社会责任计算：通过社区参与早期计算机科学课程来提高拉丁裔学生的保留率

• 批准号: 2216672
• 负责人: Yu Sun
• 金额: $ 20.53万
• 依托单位: Cal Poly Pomona Foundation, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-10-01 至 2025-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2216672&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: BPC; Socially; Responsible; Computing; Promoting

An alliance of six campuses from the California State University (CSU) system have united to transform the early computing experience of students historically underrepresented in computing. This alliance brings together six CSU campuses, each with unique strengths and local challenges: Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo; CSU Dominguez Hills, CSU Fullerton, CSU Los Angeles, Cal Poly, Pomona, and San Francisco State University. Together the alliance will serve over two thousand undergraduate students in computing who identify as Hispanic/Latino (Latinx). Each campus loses Latinx students at a higher rate than non-Latinx students, with the largest percentage of students lost in the first two years of computing. The alliance is committed to changing this trend by integrating socially responsible computing curriculum in early student computing experiences. Faculty learning communities will transform computing culture and curriculum to better demonstrate the use of computing in addressing community needs. Through project-based learning, these curricular changes will provide the opportunity for students to connect computing with their communities, ultimately increasing their sense of belonging in computing. This project unites computer science educators committed to broadening participation in computing with social scientists with expertise in evaluating inclusive STEM education and with expertise in training faculty working at Hispanic-Serving Institutions. This project focuses on developing and evaluating computing curriculum and pedagogy that integrates communal goals into introductory computing courses and promotes socially responsible computing. This cross-site collaboration uses a collective impact model to support our shared vision while allowing for site variances. The project includes a curricular peer review process to align outcomes while allowing each site to leverage its local community needs and strengths, particularly in the development of the community-focused socially responsible computing design project intervention. The proposed faculty learning community (FLC) uses training and ongoing meetings to orient and support new instructors and expand the project impact beyond the grant personnel. This project includes evaluation that examines both student and faculty outcomes, allowing the alliance to reflect and improve throughout the proposed work. The curricular changes and associated evaluation will ultimately contribute to the knowledge base of computing education, while the research focused on changing the discipline climate with faculty learning communities also contributes to learning sciences.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.

加州州立大学 (CSU) 系统的六个校区组成的联盟联合起来，旨在改变历史上在计算机领域代表性不足的学生的早期计算体验。该联盟汇集了科罗拉多州立大学的六个校区，每个校区都有独特的优势和当地的挑战：加州州立大学理工分校、圣路易斯奥比斯波分校；科罗拉多州立大学多明格斯山分校、科罗拉多州立大学富勒顿分校、科罗拉多州立大学洛杉矶分校、加州理工大学、波莫纳大学和旧金山州立大学。 该联盟将为两千多名西班牙裔/拉丁裔（拉丁裔）计算机专业本科生提供服务。每个校区拉丁裔学生的流失率都高于非拉丁裔学生，其中在计算机专业的前两年流失的学生比例最高。该联盟致力于通过将社会责任计算课程融入早期学生的计算体验中来改变这一趋势。教师学习社区将改变计算文化和课程，以更好地展示计算在满足社区需求方面的用途。通过基于项目的学习，这些课程变化将为学生提供将计算与社区联系起来的机会，最终增强他们对计算的归属感。该项目将致力于扩大计算参与的计算机科学教育工作者与具有评估包容性 STEM 教育专业知识和培训西班牙裔服务机构教师专业知识的社会科学家联合起来。该项目的重点是开发和评估计算机课程和教学法，将公共目标融入到计算机入门课程中，并促进对社会负责的计算。这种跨站点协作使用集体影响模型来支持我们的共同愿景，同时允许站点差异。该项目包括一个课程同行评审过程，以调整结果，同时允许每个站点利用其当地社区的需求和优势，特别是在开发以社区为中心的社会责任计算设计项目干预方面。 拟议的教师学习社区（FLC）利用培训和持续会议来指导和支持新教师，并将项目影响扩大到资助人员之外。该项目包括检查学生和教师成果的评估，使联盟能够在整个拟议工作中进行反思和改进。课程变化和相关评估最终将有助于计算机教育的知识基础，而致力于改变教师学习社区的学科氛围的研究也有助于学习科学。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并被认为值得通过以下方式获得支持：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。