New PCAST report talks about SIGCSE
February 16, 2012 at 9:48 am 1 comment
Pretty cool! The latest PCAST (President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology) report is on “ENGAGE TO EXCEL: PRODUCING ONE MILLION ADDITIONAL COLLEGE GRADUATES WITH DEGREES IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS.” CS Education plays a significant role in this, and SIGCSE gets a few mentions!
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richde | February 16, 2012 at 10:44 am
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From the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology:
PCAST found that economic forecasts point to a need for producing, over the next decade, approximately
1 million more college graduates in STEM fields than expected under current assumptions. Fewer than
40% of students who enter college intending to major in a STEM field complete a STEM degree. Merely
increasing the retention of STEM majors from 40% to 50% would generate three-quarters of the targeted
1 million additional STEM degrees over the next decade.
PCAST identified five overarching recommendations that it believes can achieve this goal: (1) catalyze
widespread adoption of empirically validated teaching practices; (2) advocate and provide support
for replacing standard laboratory courses with discovery-based research courses; (3) launch a national
experiment in postsecondary mathematics education to address the mathematics-preparation gap;
(4) encourage partnerships among stakeholders to diversify pathways to STEM careers; and (5) create a
Presidential Council on STEM Education with leadership from the academic and business communities to
provide strategic leadership for transformative and sustainable change in STEM undergraduate education.
Implementing