ITWF: Collaborative Research: African Americans in IT: Improving the Graduate Education and Workforce Piplelines

摘要ITWF计划-FY 04 CNS 0417688，PI Vernard哈灵顿，拉德福大学标题：ITWF合作研究：合作研究：非裔美国人在IT：改善研究生教育和劳动力管道合作项目：CNS 0418165，PI Wanda Smith，弗吉尼亚理工学院CNS 0417688，PI Vernard哈灵顿，拉德福大学弗吉尼亚理工学院和拉德福大学已被授予ITWF赠款进行合作研究和实施项目，其主要目标是促进和提高保留非裔美国人在信息技术（IT）工作场所和教授。信息技术职业弹性（ITCR）的模型已经开发，描述了学生如何选择，坚持，并从IT教育课程毕业，然后过渡到教授或IT工作场所。一项为期三年的纵向研究将测试该模型及其对非洲裔美国人的适用性。这一项目的智力价值在于它可能有助于研究如何吸引和留住少数群体从事科学和工程。 研究小组定义了一个信息技术职业弹性模型，描述了学生如何选择，坚持，并从IT教育课程毕业，然后过渡到IT工作场所或教授。该模型整合了三个被广泛验证的研究视角的优势：学生保留，学生参与和吸引-选择-损耗。这项为期三年的纵向研究将收集社会融合、学术专业融合、IT相关因素、学生特征、社会融合、IT职业弹性、工作因素、组织特征、价值观、招聘过程以及满意度和保留率等数据。 一系列复杂的统计技术，包括分层多元回归，多元判别分析和结构方程建模技术，将被用来测试ITCR模型及其对非洲裔美国人的适用性。该项目的更广泛的影响在于其开发改进的辅导和教育计划，这将有利于不仅是非裔美国学生在IT，但也在IT非少数民族学生的潜力。该项目还将有利于科学，教育和商业界谁正在寻求增加少数民族参与IT。

ABSTRACTITWF Program - FY04CNS 0417688, PI Vernard Harrington, Radford UniversityTitle: ITWF Collaborative Research: Collaborative Research: African-Americans in IT: Improving the Graduate Education and Workforce PipelinesCollaborative Projects:CNS 0418165, PI Wanda Smith, Virginia Polytechnic InstituteCNS 0417688, PI Vernard Harrington, Radford UniversityVirginia Polytechnic Institute and Radford University have been awarded an ITWF grant to conduct a collaborative research and implementation project whose primary goal is to promote and enhance the retention of African-Americans in the information technology (IT) workplace and professoriate. A model of Information Technology Career Resilience (ITCR) has been developed that describes how students select, persist in, and graduate from IT educational programs and then make the transition to the professoriate or the IT workplace. A three-year longitudinal study will test the model and its applicability to African-Americans. The intellectual merit of this project lies in its potential contribution to research in attraction and retention of minorities in science and engineering. The research team has defined a model of Information Technology Career Resilience that describes how students select, persist in, and graduate from IT educational programs and then make the transition to the IT workplace or the professoriate. This model integrates the strengths of three widely validated research perspectives: student retention, student involvement and attraction-selection-attrition. A three-year longitudinal study will collect data on social integration, academic major integration, IT-related factors, student characteristics, social integration, IT career resilience, job factors, organizational characteristics, values, the recruitment process, and satisfaction and retention. A range of sophisticated statistical techniques including hierarchical multiple regression, multiple discriminate analysis, and structural equation modeling techniques, will be used to test the ITCR model and its applicability to African-Americans. The broader impacts of the project lie with its potential for developing improved mentoring and educational programs that will benefit not only African-American students in IT but also non-minority students in IT. The project will also benefit the scientific, educational and business communities who are seeking to increase minority participation in IT.