About the Research Grant (NSF CCF 0939089)

ASSECT Site hosted by University of Massachusetts Batec: http://batec.org/cpath-assect

Project Summary as quoted at http://batec.org/cpath-assect :

"ASSECT brings together community colleges and universities in five regions – Bunker Hill Community College and University of Massachusetts Boston in Massachusetts, Northern Virginia Community College and George Mason University in Virginia, Ivy Tech Community College and Purdue University in Indiana, Cameron University in Oklahoma and City College of San Francisco and California State – Monterrey in California. The ASSECT partners propose a three-year Class II project to revitalize undergraduate computing education through new research that correlates Jeanette Wing’s vision of Computational Thinking (CT) with the new IT Volume developed by the Special Interest Group for Information Technology Education (SIGITE) of the ACM to develop a CT framework for researching and building instructional elements. This outcome will produce core computing concepts, methodologies, frameworks, and tools that may be applied across a variety of institutions and inform teaching and learning in undergraduate computing in a variety of environments. ASSECT is uniquely qualified to perform this work since each of the five ASSECT partnerships consists of a paired team comprised of a university and a community college. The benefit of this arrangement is to ensure the focus is firmly set on undergraduate computing and that the outcomes and findings of this project develop core CT skills that improve matriculation and transfer from lower to upper division IT and CS programs."