ITWF: Characteristics and Career Paths of Current IT Workers

EIA-0204464 Rosenbloom，约书亚L.，阿什，罗纳德A.堪萨斯大学标题：当前IT工作者的特征和职业道路该奖项为一项研究提供支持，该研究将确定信息技术（IT）工作者的教育和工作经验中的重要决策点，这些决策点导致他们进入并留在IT劳动力队伍中。 这项研究的结果将记录进入和保留在IT劳动力的正常模式，提供一个基线，以检查妇女和少数民族的特殊问题，谁是大大不足的代表性在这个不断扩大和有利可图的经济部门。通过调查目前的IT和非IT工人在大堪萨斯城地区，该项目将收集有关个人性格特征的数据，以及详细的家庭背景、教育和工作经历。 这些数据将反过来被用来确定影响个人决定进入IT工作以及继续（或退出）IT工作的态度，家庭背景，教育和工作经验等方面。 在IT工作者中，同样的数据将用于探索性别、种族和民族的差异。 结果将阐明IT和科学与工程职业选择之间的相似之处，以及差异。

EIA-0204464Rosenbloom, Joshua L., Ash, Ronald A.University of Kansas Title: Characteristics and Career Paths of Current IT WorkersThis award provides support for a study that will identify important decision points in the educational and work experiences of Information Technology (IT) workers that have led them to enter and remain in the IT workforce. The results of this study will document the normal patterns of entry and retention in the IT workforce to provide a baseline to examine the special problems of women and minorities who are greatly underrepresented in this expanding and lucrative sector of the economy.Through a survey of both current IT and non-IT workers in the greater Kansas City area, the project will gather data on individual personality traits in conjunction with detailed family background, and educational and work histories. These data will in turn be used to identify aspects of attitudes, family background, and educational and work experiences that have influenced individual decisions to enter IT jobs, as well as to remain in (or exit from) them. Among IT workers the same data will be used to explore differences by sex, and race and ethnicity. The results will illuminate both the similarities between IT and science and engineering career choices, and the differences.