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

EIA-0204222Vouk，Mladen A.，Berenson，Sarah B.，Michael，Joan North Carolina State University标题：女性与信息技术：对从初中到高中和大学的年轻女性的比较研究这个ITWF奖授予北卡罗来纳州立大学，将支持开发和测试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，以便为她们的职业生涯做好准备，并决定使信息技术(IT)成为她们的职业。IT职业被定义为需要电气工程、计算机科学或计算机工程学士学位的职业。将考察成功因素而不是失败因素，以便对性别和信息技术的研究做出重大贡献。该项目的目标是：a)确定与年轻女性决定在IT领域攻读本科课程相关的学校、社会和个人因素。b)使用上述因素创建并测试一个模型，以预测年轻女性选择攻读(注册)IT本科课程的决定。c)在专业出版物、专业会议、咨询委员会会议以及向学者、教师、政策制定者、家长和年轻女性出版的电子专著中传播这项研究的结果。d)根据该研究模型提出适当的干预措施，以提高年轻女性对IT职业的兴趣。为了确定这些因素，调查人员将从扎根的理论角度进行调查。受试者将是年轻女性，她们在中学就已经被认定为数学天才，她们从1999年夏天开始参加了NSF性别平等项目，女孩在轨道上(GET)。

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.