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

ITWF：合作研究：IT 领域的非裔美国人：改善研究生教育和劳动力储备

• 批准号: 0417688
• 负责人: Kermith Harrington
• 金额: $ 7.44万
• 依托单位: Radford University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-08-15 至 2007-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0417688&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ITWF; Collaborative; Research; African; Americans

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.

摘要：ITWF项目- FY04CNS 0417688， PI Vernard Harrington， Radford university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，PI Vernard Harrington，雷德福大学弗吉尼亚理工学院和雷德福大学已获得ITWF资助，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洲裔美国人在信息技术（IT）工作场所和教授的保留。一个信息技术职业弹性（ITCR）模型已经被开发出来，描述了学生如何选择，坚持，从IT教育项目毕业，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裔美国人的适用性。这个项目的智力价值在于它可能对科学和工程领域吸引和留住少数民族的研究作出贡献。研究小组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、坚持并从IT教育项目中毕业，然后过渡到IT工作场所或教授。该模型整合了三种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-流失。一项为期三年的纵向研究将收集社会整合、学术专业整合、IT相关因素、学生特征、社会整合、IT职业弹性、工作因素、组织特征、价值观、招聘过程、满意度和保留率等数据。一系列复杂的统计技术，包括层次多元回归、多元判别分析和结构方程建模技术，将用于测试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发展改进的指导和教育计划的潜力，这不仅有利于非裔美国学生，也有利于非少数族裔学生。该项目也将有利于科学、教育和商业团体，他们正在寻求增加少数群体对信息技术的参与。