PGE/PLN Spurring the Entry of Women into Information Technology in West Virginia Planning Grant

西弗吉尼亚大学正在与妇女加强合作，准备一个完整的建议。 拟于2003年秋季开始实施的拟议项目的目标是增加进入西弗吉尼亚大学计算机科学专业学习并继续学习的妇女人数。要解决的研究问题是，卡内基梅隆大学的Jane Margolis和Allan Fisher [Margolis，2002]以及以前在普渡大学工作、现在在亨利吕斯基金会工作的Jane Zimmer Daniels所使用的方法是否适用于一所入学要求不高的农村州的大学。这项工作的核心是两个学期的课程序列，该课程将以发现为基础，以现实世界为导向。这项工作的成果应可推广到类似州的学院和大学，以提高所有学生，特别是女生对计算机科学的认识。

West Virginia University is teaming with Step-Up for Women to prepare a full proposal. The objective of the proposed project to be implemented beginning in fall 2003 is to increase the number of women entering and remaining in the computer science major at West Virginia University. The research question to be addressed is whether an adaptation of the approaches used by Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher at Carnegie Mellon University [Margolis, 2002] and by Jane Zimmer Daniels, formerly at Purdue University and now at The Henry Luce Foundation, are applicable at a university in a rural state with modest admissions requirements. Central to the work is a two semester course sequence which will be discovery-based with a real-world orientation. The results of this work should be transferable to colleges and universities in similar states seeking to increase all students and particularly female students in computer science.