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

题目：ITWF协作研究：协作研究：IT领域的非裔美国人：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 Harrington、雷德福大学弗吉尼亚理工学院和雷德福大学获得了ITWF的赠款，以开展一项合作研究和实施项目，其主要目标是促进和加强非裔美国人在信息技术(IT)工作场所和教授岗位的留存。信息技术职业复原力(ITCR)模型描述了学生如何选择、坚持和毕业于IT教育项目，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裔美国人的适用性。这个项目的学术价值在于它对吸引和留住科学和工程领域少数群体的研究做出了潜在的贡献。研究团队定义了一个信息技术职业弹性模型，该模型描述了学生如何选择、坚持和毕业于IT教育项目，然后过渡到IT工作场所或教授。该模型综合了三种被广泛验证的研究视角的优点：学生留存、学生参与和吸引-选择-自然流失。一项为期三年的纵向研究将收集有关社会融合、学术专业融合、信息技术相关因素、学生特征、社会融合、信息技术职业韧性、工作因素、组织特征、价值观、招聘过程以及满意度和留存的数据。将使用一系列复杂的统计技术，包括分层多元回归、多重判别分析和结构方程建模技术，来测试ITCR模型及其对非裔美国人的适用性。该项目更广泛的影响在于其开发改进的指导和教育计划的潜力，这些计划不仅将使IT领域的非裔美国学生受益，也将使IT领域的非少数族裔学生受益。该项目还将使科学、教育和企业界受益，他们正寻求增加少数群体对信息技术的参与。

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.