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This project is supported by a collaborative grant from the National Science Foundation.
(NCCU: NSF CNS# 2245958 WSSU: NSF CNS# 2245959 FSU: NSF CNS# 2245960)
This is a collaborative project between multi-disciplinary faculty researchers from North Carolina Central University (NCCU), Fayetteville State University (FSU), Winston-Salem State University (WSSU), and educational researchers from Cynosure Consulting. A main goal of this project is to create a data science certificate as a pathway for non-computing majors to stack micro credentials in technical skills needed for data-driven investigations in their respective disciplines.
The certificate is composed of the following five courses: (i) Exploratory Data Analysis of Social Justice Issues, (ii) Computing Tools for Data Science (Python), (iii) Machine Learning for All, (iv) Responsible Data Science, and (v) Capstone Project (in the student’s major discipline). Students will earn digital badges for each course they complete successfully and those who complete all the five courses successfully will be awarded the Data Science Certificate and a corresponding digital badge.
The guiding research questions for this project are:
How do those with a lens on the practical application of such a certification pathway see the proposed innovation?
Does certification increase students’ foundational knowledge of data science? How does the experience of the certification pathway (including entry, course-taking, post-certification) shape participants’ identities, self-efficacy, perceptions of barriers, and career trajectory? To what extent does the focus of the pathway, that is, data science for social justice, resonate and interact with their identity as a member of a traditionally marginalized group?
How does the innovation proposed transform undergraduate computing education?
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