ITWF: Toward Gender Equitable Outcomes in IT HIgher Education: Beyond Computer Science

摘要-0305859 Jean C.印第安纳大学Robinson Indiana University走向性别平等的结果在高等教育：超越计算机科学这ITWF奖提供支持，调查15个高等教育计划在信息科学，信息系统，教学系统技术，和信息学，计算机科学课程作为基线比较，在五个主要的IT学位授予机构。 这项研究的目的是确定哪些大学/部门/方案在招聘和留住女学生方面最成功，以及随着时间的推移，哪些因素有利于女性的成功。这些方案被假设为对女学生有不同的反应，由于学术文化的差异，在部门，大学和学科层面的导师，榜样，同伴支持网络，赠款方案和其他资源的可用性方面的操作。组织文化的这些措施将与学生的成果和学生经验的自我报告的措施。关于学生经历的数据将通过对5 000名学生进行网上抽样调查收集，然后在两年时间内对大约155名学生进行三次面对面访谈，对女生进行过度抽样。此外，教师，管理人员和工作人员在研究计划将通过电话和亲自采访。智力上的优点。 以前的研究已经确定，文化是阻碍女孩和妇女学习计算机科学的最重要因素之一。 该项目有助于在这一领域的知识，通过在学术IT课程的背景下操作文化，并系统地调查其对学生的经验和成果的贡献。该项目将确定令人鼓舞和令人沮丧的因素，并产生比较统计数据，这些数据可用作未来信息技术教育和性别研究的基线，就像该项目借鉴了以前对计算机科学女学生的研究结果一样。 随着对信息技术专业人员的需求不断增长，也需要让妇女和女孩参加学习课程，使她们有资格从事与信息技术有关的职业。哪些因素鼓励或阻碍女学生的成功的调查结果可以用来通知方案的建议，旨在通过各种各样的教育方案，使更多的妇女进入IT管道。在某种程度上，新的IT范例，如在信息，信息学，教育和商业学校教授帮助创建这些文化协会，他们可以有助于减少持续的性别隔离在学术IT相关的计划，从而IT就业。

ABSTRACTEIA-0305859Jean C. RobinsonIndiana UniversityTitle: Toward Gender Equitable Outcomes in Higher Education: Beyond Computer ScienceThis ITWF award provides support to investigate 15 tertiary education programs in information science, information systems, instructional systems technology, and informatics, with computer science programs as a baseline comparison, in five major IT degree-granting institutions. The purpose of the study is to determine which universities/departments/programs are most successful at recruiting and retaining female students, and what factors favor female success over time. The programs are hypothesized to be differentially responsive to female students due to differences in academic culture, operationalized in terms of the availability of mentorship, role models, peer support networks, grant programs, and other resources at the departmental, university, and disciplinary levels. These measures of organizational culture will be correlated with measures of student outcomes and self-reports of student experiences. Data about students' experiences will be collected through a web-based survey of a sample of 5,000 students, followed by three face-to-face interviews with an estimated 155 students, over-sampling for females, over a two-year period. In addition, faculty, administrators and staff in the study programs will be interviewed by telephone and in person. Intellectual merit. Previous research has identified culture as among the most important factors that discourage girls and women from studying computer science. This project contributes to knowledge in this area by operationalizing culture in the context of academic IT programs and systematically investigating its contribution to student experiences and outcomes. The project will identify encouraging and discouraging factors, and produce comparative statistics, that can be used as a baseline in future research on IT education and gender, much as this project draws on findings from previous research on female students in computer science.Broader impacts. As the need for information technology professionals continues to grow, so too does the need to engage women and girls in courses of study that will qualify them for IT-related careers. Findings of which factors encourage or discourage the success of women students can be used to inform programmatic recommendations aimed at moving more women into the IT pipeline through a diverse range of educational programs. To the extent that new IT paradigms such as are taught in schools of information, informatics, education, and business help to create those cultural associations, they can contribute to reducing the persistent gender segregation in academic IT-related programs and thus IT employment.