ITWF: WOMEN AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: A Comparative Study of Young Women from Middle Grades through High School and into College

EIA-02042220k，Mladen A.，Berenson，Sarah B.，迈克尔，琼北卡罗莱纳州立大学职称： 妇女与信息技术：从初中到高中再到大学的年轻女性的比较研究ITWF授予北卡罗来纳州州立大学的这一奖项将支持开发和测试一个与年轻女性决定坚持高等数学和计算机科学课程相关的因素模型，以便为自己做好准备，并决定将信息技术（IT）作为自己的职业。 IT职业被定义为那些需要电气工程，计算机科学或计算机工程学士学位的职业。 将研究成功因素而不是失败因素，以便为性别和信息技术研究做出重大贡献。a）确定学校、社会和个人因素与年轻女性决定在IT领域攻读本科学位的相关性。B）使用上述因素创建并测试一个模型，以预测年轻女性决定在IT领域攻读本科学位的可能性。（报名参加）IT本科学习。c）在专业出版物、专业会议、咨询委员会会议和电子专著中向学者、教师、政策制定者传播本研究的结果，d）根据这一研究模式，提出适当的干预措施，以提高年轻妇女对信息技术职业的兴趣。为了确定这些因素，调查人员将从扎根理论的角度进行调查。 培训对象将是从1999年夏季开始参加全国科学基金会两性平等项目-“走上正轨的女孩”（GoT）的女青年，她们在中学时就已被认定具有数学天赋。

EIA-0204222Vouk, Mladen A., Berenson, Sarah B., Michael, JoanNorth Carolina State UniversityTitle: Women and Information Technology: A Comparative Study of Young Women from Middle Grades through High School, and into CollegeThis ITWF award to North Carolina State University will support the development and testing of a model of the factors associated with young women's decisions to persist in advanced mathematics and computer science courses so as to prepare themselves for, and decide to make Information Technology (IT), their career. IT careers are defined as those requiring an electrical engineering, computer science, or Computer engineering bachelor's degree. Success factors rather than failure factors will be examined in order to make a significant contribution to the research on gender and IT. The project's objectives are to:a) Identify school, social, and personal factors associated with young women's decisions to pursue undergraduate study in IT fields.b) Create and test a model using the above factors to predict young women's decisions to pursue (enroll into) IT undergraduate study.c) Disseminate the results of this study in professional publications, professional meetings, advisory board meetings, and in an electronic monograph to scholars, teachers, policy makers, parents, and young women.d) Propose appropriate interventions to increase young women's interest in IT careers based on this research model. To identify the factors, the investigators will implement the inquiry from a grounded theory perspective. Subjects will be young women, already identified as talented in mathematics in middle school, who participated in the NSF Gender Equity project, Girls on Track (GoT), beginning in the Summer of 1999.