ITWF: The Research Component of a Model Information Technology (IT) College

EIA-0204267 Good，Mary L.，Mitchell，William M.U.Arkansas，Little RockTitle：模范IT学院的研究组成部分该ITWF奖支持小石城阿肯色大学使用IT工具为教育企业服务，就像这些工具支持商业企业一样。1999年，阿肯色州认识到IT工人短缺的问题，在阿肯色大学小石城分校创建了信息科学与系统工程学院，称为阿肯色州网络学院。网络学院将设计一个数据库，存储该学院招生的方方面面的数据，以及四个基于计算机的四年制学位课程的第一年学生经验。该数据库将：为从其他研究的人口统计学和教育学研究中得出的结论提供一个试验台。挖掘新的关联和经验和行为模式的集群，将建议进行新的方向的研究。提供关于阿肯色州的IT学生的数据，以及关于网络学院为实现其使命而实施的各种战略的有效性的数据。可以安装在其他IT学院的原型招聘和保留数据库，从而为进一步了解IT学院为未被充分代表的人群提供服务的努力提供了重要的工具。一旦建立，这一动态数据模型将在网络学院内得到支持，它收集的数据和产生的分析将为在全国范围内维持受过大学培训的专业人员供应的纵向问题提供洞察。

EIA-0204267Good, Mary L., Mitchell, William M.U. Arkansas, Little RockTitle: The Research Component of a Model IT CollegeThis ITWF award provides support to the University of Arkansas, Little Rock to use the tools of IT to serve the educational enterprise in the same way that these tools support business enterprises. In 1999 the state of Arkansas recognized the shortage of IT workers and created the College of Information Science and Systems Engineering, called the Cyber-college of Arkansas, at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. The Cyber-college will design a database that will house data on every facet of the college's recruitment and first-year student experience across four computer-based four-year degree programs. The database will:provide a test-bed for conclusions derived from demographic and pedagogic research from other studies.be mined for new associations and clusters of experience and behavior patterns that will suggest research in new directions.provide data on the IT students of Arkansas and on the efficacy of the various strategies that the Cyber-college has implement to achieve its mission.prototype recruitment and retention databases that could be installed in other IT college and thereby contribute an important tool to further the understanding of the efforts of IT colleges to serve underrepresented population groups.Once built, this dynamic data model will be sustained within the Cyber-college and the data that it collects and the analysis that it engenders will provide insight to the longitudinal problem of maintaining the supply of college-trained professionals in the IT workforce nationally.