Student Advancement and Internships in the Middle of a Computer Science Major

计算机科学专业的学生进步和实习

• 批准号: 2318048
• 负责人: Katherine St. John
• 金额: $ 19.99万
• 依托单位: CUNY Hunter College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2026-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2318048&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Student; Advancement; Internships; Middle; Computer

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this project aims to pilot a program for second-year students in the computer science (CS) major to address the problem of persistence among Hispanic and Black students, and female students of all ethnicities. Minority students who are underrepresented in their participation in STEM careers enter STEM majors at similar rates to the rest of the population but have much lower persistence to completing a degree. Increasing retention among these students is crucial to diversifying the technical workforce. This project will use supplementary instructional workshops to help students integrate their academic knowledge and technical interviewing skills. Technical interviewing is a key part of the screening process for achieving internships. The project's investigators will create communication pipelines that support the success of transfer students and develop institutional infrastructure to build sustainability. The project will improve course retention, grades, and internship achievement among underrepresented minority students. Successful outcomes of this project should provide the rationale for expansion of the program and more rigorous study of its impact. This project's specific objectives will be to increase retention in second-year computer science courses, increase fluency in programming and analytic reasoning, and improve students’ skills for technical interviewing. The project team will offer two series of workshops, each aligned to course content and different stages of the technical screening process for internships. Both workshop series will feature active learning and regular peer- and self-assessment in a non-evaluative and supportive environment to help students develop awareness of their personal learning needs and self-regulated learning. The evaluation plan will use quasi-experimental methods to generate high-quality information for making inferences about program outcomes. Research on the relationships between self-assessment, self-regulation, and achievement will add to a growing body of literature within and beyond STEM fields. The project's plan for communicating its activities and findings will include outreach to many audiences including faculty in computer science and adjacent departments throughout the City University of New York (CUNY) system, STEM-educational researchers, tech industry recruiters, and students. The dissemination plan will make use of regional seminars, conference presentations, peer-reviewed publications, and a program website. This project is funded by the HSI Program, which aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education, broaden participation in STEM, and build capacity for institutional transformation at HSIs.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.

在改善本科STEM教育的支持下：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划），该项目旨在为计算机科学（CS）专业的二年级学生试行一项计划，以解决西班牙裔和黑人学生和所有种族学生之间持久性的问题。以与其他人口相似的速度，他们参与STEM职业的人数不足的少数族裔学生进入STEM专业，但持久性的持久性要低得多。这些学生的保留率增加对于使技术劳动力多样化至关重要。该项目将使用补充教学研讨会来帮助学生整合他们的学术知识和技术访谈技能。技术访谈是实现内部船只的筛选过程的关键部分。该项目的调查人员将创建通信管道，以支持转学学生的成功并发展机构。建立可持续性的基础设施。该项目将改善代表性不足的少数族裔学生的课程保留，成绩和实习成就。该项目的成功成果应为扩大计划的扩展和对其影响的更严格的研究提供理由。该项目的具体目标是增加二年级计算机科学课程的保留率，提高编程和分析推理的流利度，并提高学生的技术访谈技能。项目团队将提供两个系列研讨会，每个研讨会都与课程内容和实习技术筛选过程的不同阶段保持一致。这两个研讨会系列都将在非评估和支持性的环境中进行积极学习以及定期的同伴和自我评估，以帮助学生意识到自己的个人学习需求和自我调节的学习。评估计划将使用准实验方法来生成高质量的信息，以推断计划结果。关于自我评估，自我调节和成就之间关系的研究将增加茎领域内外越来越多的文献。该项目传达其活动和发现的计划将包括向许多观众推广，包括计算机科学教师和纽约市大学（CUNY）系统的邻近系，茎教育研究人员，科技行业招聘人员和学生。传播计划将利用区域半手，会议演讲，经过同行评审的出版物和计划网站。该项目由HSI计划提供资金，该计划旨在增强本科STEM教育，扩大参与STEM并在HSIS上建立机构转型的能力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的审查标准来通过评估来通过评估来支持的。