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

vouk, Mladen A., Berenson, Sarah B., Michael， joan北卡罗莱纳州立大学，题目：妇女与信息技术；这项ITWF向北卡罗来纳州立大学颁发的奖项将支持开发和测试一个模型，以确定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，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职业被定义为需要电气工程、计算机科学或计算机工程学士学位的职业。为了对性别和信息技术的研究做出重大贡献，我们将研究成功因素而不是失败因素。该项目的目标是：a)确定学校、社会和个人因素与年轻女性选择IT领域本科学习的决定有关。b)使用上述因素创建并测试一个模型，以预测年轻女性追求（注册）IT本科学习的决定。c)在专业出版物，专业会议，顾问委员会会议和学者，教师，政策制定者，家长和年轻女性的电子专著中传播本研究的结果。d)在此研究模型的基础上提出适当的干预措施，以提高年轻女性对IT职业的兴趣。为了确定影响因素，研究者将从扎根理论的角度进行调查。研究对象为从1999年夏天开始参加美国国家科学基金会性别平等项目“女孩在轨道上”（Girls on Track，简称GoT）的中学阶段已被认定有数学天赋的年轻女性。

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.