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BUILDING A MORE EQUITABLE ECOSYSTEM FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION: The Influence and Promise of the Alliances

February 2, 2016

THE BROADENING PARTICIPATION IN COMPUTING ALLIANCES PROGRAM

Increasing the representaAon of women, people of color, and people with disabiliAes in the compuAng fields.

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AccessCompu*ng SupporAng students with disabiliAes to pursue degrees in compuAng fields

Compu*ng Alliance of Hispanic-‐Serving Ins*tu*ons (CAHSI) Leveraging member insAtuAons to increase the number of Hispanic students who complete degrees in compuAng

Sustainable Diversity in the Compu*ng Research Pipeline Increasing the parAcipaAon of women and underrepresented minoriAes in compuAng research careers

Expanding Compu*ng Educa*on Pathways (ECEP) Increasing the number and diversity of students compleAng compuAng degrees by supporAng state-‐level compuAng educaAon policy change

Into the Loop Enhancing high school students’ computer science learning through implementaAon and disseminaAon of equity-‐focused curricula and professional development.

Ins*tute for African-‐American Mentoring in Compu*ng Science (iAAMCS) Addressing the shortage of African Americans pursuing PhDs and research careers in compuAng-‐related fields

Na*onal Center for Women & Informa*on Technology (NCWIT) Bringing together universiAes, nonprofits, and for-‐profit organizaAons to advance women’s and girls’ parAcipaAon in computer science

Students in Technology, Academia, Research, and Service Alliance (STARS) Fostering a community of pracAce for students through service learning and building compuAng educaAon capacity in member insAtuAons

THE ALLIANCES

3 Building a More Equitable Ecosystem for Computer Science EducaAon

Developing and tesAng models

FIRST FIVE YEARS

2006 2016 COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE

COURSES

FELLOWSHIPS

MENTORING

SERVICE LEARNING

WEBINARS

LECTURE SERIES CONFERENCES

WORKSHOPS

WEBSITE CONSULTATIONS

COMPETITIONS

TOOLS AND RESOURCES

PUBLICATIONS SUMMER PROGRAMS

RESEARCH EXPERIENCES


Leveraging knowledge and serving as naAonal resources

SECOND FIVE YEARS


COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE

COURSES

FELLOWSHIPS MENTORING

SERVICE LEARNING

WEBINARS LECTURE SERIES

CONFERENCES

WORKSHOPS


COMPETITIONS

TOOLS AND RESOURCES



FACILITATING A NETWORK OF

PROFESSIONALS

SUPPORTING NATIONAL

INFRASTRUCTURE

COLLABORATING

FOSTERING RESEARCH

CONNECTING INITIATIVES

INFLUENCING POLICIES

SERVING AS NATIONAL RESOURCES

2016 2006

COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE

COURSES

FELLOWSHIPS MENTORING

SERVICE LEARNING

WEBINARS LECTURE SERIES

CONFERENCES

WORKSHOPS


COMPETITIONS

TOOLS AND RESOURCES



FACILITATING A NETWORK OF

PROFESSIONALS

SUPPORTING NATIONAL

INFRASTRUCTURE

COLLABORATING

FOSTERING RESEARCH

CONNECTING INITIATIVES

INFLUENCING POLICIES

SERVING AS NATIONAL RESOURCES

Alliances employ many different approaches, influencing people, organizaTons, infrastructure, and ulTmately the landscape of the field.

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CONTEXT


There is no “one right way” to broaden parAcipaAon

GEOGRAPHIC REACH OF THE ALLIANCES

1–10

11–20

21–30

> 30

ORGANIZATIONS BY STATE

Alliances work with organizaAons in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico


Alliances use diverse strategies to expose students to compuAng concepts and careers, influencing their interest and confidence in pursuing compuAng careers.

CAHSI engaged 2,846 undergraduate students—half of whom were Hispanic—posiAvely influencing their percepAons of and interest in compuAng careers.

Through parAcipaAng in Research Experiences for Undergraduates, 156 undergraduates developed new skills for navigaAng a successful career in compuAng research.

STUDENTS

12,409 K–12 and 8,252 postsecondary students participated in Alliances’ activities.


131 high school teachers increased their confidence in teaching computer science (CS) for diverse learners by parAcipaAng in PD developed by Into the Loop.

56 faculty, administrators, and employers parAcipated in AccessCompu*ng’s communiAes of pracAce about making CS instrucAon more accessible to people with disabiliAes.

PROFESSIONALS

1,890 professionals participated in Alliances’ activities.

Through capacity-‐building workshops, conferences, and professional development, Alliances inspire faculty, teachers, and other professionals to develop collaboraAons and change the climate in computer science educaAon.


OrganizaAons across the compuAng educaAon spectrum benefit from Alliances’ resources, finding new approaches to teaching and learning, recruiAng and retaining students, and developing public/private partnerships.

NCWIT brought together 412 universiAes, nonprofits, and for-‐profit organizaAons to advance women’s and girls’ parAcipaAon in computer science.

ECEP’s four-‐step model helped leaders in four states to influence state level educaAon policy.

ORGANIZATIONS

Alliances served or collaborated with 1,106 unique organizations.


Alliances are naAonal resources—disseminaAng promising pracAces, scaling tested models, and supporAng naAonal and regional efforts to broaden parAcipaAon.

Into the Loop’s Exploring Computer Science (ECS) is taught in schools across 11 states and the District of Columbia. Over 8,000 students parAcipated in ECS courses.

NCWIT and AccessCompu*ng make teaching and learning resources available online, with more than 1,000 arAcles, toolkits, and other helpful products and publicaAons to support broadening parAcipaAon.

INFRASTRUCTURE

NCWIT had 34,064 page views of resources and distributed 105,793 hard copy resources.


Alliances disseminate new knowledge and research about broadening parAcipaAon in compuAng through publicaAons, presentaAons, conferences and Web-‐based disseminaAon strategies.

The first RESPECT (Research on Equity and Sustained ParAcipaAon in Engineering, CompuAng and Technology) conference was hosted in 2015 in conjuncAon with the STARS Celebra*on event and the IEEE Computer Society’s Special Technical Community on Broadening ParAcipaAon.

iAAMCS is an acAve sponsor of the Richard Tapia CelebraAon of Diversity in CompuAng conference and ensures that students have financial support to adend to network and present their research.

INFRASTRUCTURE

In a single year, Alliances presented 179 conference papers and published 27 journal articles and 3 book chapters.


EvaluaAon is criAcal for documenAng Alliances’ influence and outcomes.

The CRA-‐W/CDC Alliance—Sustainable Diversity in the Compu*ng Research Pipeline—contributed to evaluaAng the work of the Alliances through their Center for EvaluaAng the Research Pipeline (CERP www.cra.org/cerp) and its naAonal survey of computer science departments, the Data Buddies Project.

The Program Evalua*on facilitated the development of a common data collecAon process to ensure that Alliances are tracking their acAviAes, parAcipants, challenges and successes in a standard format.

EVALUATION

With the third year of common data collection, trend analysis will begin.


THE ALLIANCE PROGRAM AND THE FIELD NEED MORE, BETTER DATA


It is criAcal to know whether and how broadening parAcipaAon iniAaAves are changing the landscape of compuAng.

Although real progress has been made in collecAng high quality data, the Alliances and the compuAng educaAon field sAll face significant challenges in data collecAon.

The Program EvaluaAon team is working with NSF to develop recommendaAons regarding data collecAon, quality, and uAlizaAon.

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FUTURE DIRECTIONS


BUILDING CONNECTED ECOSYSTEMS


BUILDING AN ECOSYSTEM

EDC Leslie Goodyear Jackie DeLisi Tracy McMahon Sarah Ryan

Westat Gary Silverstein Jennifer Flynn Liam Ristow

Kansas State University Linda Thurston

Contact: Leslie Goodyear [email protected]

BPC-‐A PROGRAM EVALUATION TEAM

Thank you

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