ITEST (Scale-Up) COMPUGIRLS SCALE-UP

COMPUGIRLS扩大项目利用一项文化相关技术（CRT）计划，为凤凰城高需求地区13-18岁的女孩进入STEM劳动力市场做好准备。该项目建立在美国国家科学基金会资助的COMPUGIRLS奖（DRL 08-33773）的成功基础上，该奖项利用基于社会正义的多媒体项目吸引年轻女性参与活动，以增加对STEM和信息通信技术（ICT）职业的知识、理解和认识。亚利桑那州立大学将与科罗拉多州的数学、工程和科学成就（CMESA）项目、教育发展中心、博尔德基督教青年会、凤凰城联合高中区、吉拉河印第安社区和怀特河Junction阿帕奇印第安社区合作实施该项目。COMPUGIRLS扩大计划的目标是增加资源不足地区的女孩接受CRT计划的人数；维持和复制ITEST战略项目的最佳实践；建立一个可持续和可复制的在线专业发展社区；并根据研究成果创建社区和学术报告。COMPUGIRLS使用了一个理论框架，包括文化响应实践和未来时间视角，补充了项目的职业重点。项目设计包括研究和评估两个部分。混合方法的参与性研究设计旨在加深对基于问题的多媒体课程的理解，该课程结合了基于证据的文化相关教学法，如何影响服务不足和代表性不足的女孩进入STEM/ICT劳动力队伍的倾向；以女孩为中心的文化相关项目的扩大过程如何在学习环境中运作；以及技术如何在采用COMPUGIRLS项目模型的不同环境中运作专业发展和同伴网络。评估计划将评估对学生的科学和STEM学习倾向、追求STEM职业的意图和可持续性的影响。项目可交付成果包括传播到六个站点（基督教青年会-博尔德，科罗拉多梅萨，怀特河联合学区，亚利桑那州立大学理工学院和梅尔卡多），四门修订课程，一个80小时的专业发展课程，一个在线学习社区，以及一年一度的跨站点活动。这些年轻女性在一年的时间里参加了四门技术课程（例如：社会正义导论、SCRATCH、第二人生导论、第二人生顶点），最后在当地一家企业进行了为期4-8周的暑期实习。教师的专业发展采用混合方法，包括8小时的面对面课程和100个自定进度的在线活动。COMPUGIRLS学习社区（CLC）是一个在线学习平台，旨在为学生和教师提供社交网络、培训网络研讨会和展示完成项目的机会。该项目将支持近700名学生和教师。预计这些研究将有助于加深对COMPUGIRLS项目对有色人种女孩的技术自我概念、学术可能自我和自我调节的影响的理解，以及该模式对土著女孩的文化自我的影响，这些文化自我表现为对文化传统的理解和承诺。研究结果将通过国家妇女和信息技术中心、同行评议期刊、会议和COMPUGIRLS学习社区传播。

The COMPUGIRLS Scale-Up project utilizes a culturally relevant technology (CRT) program to prepare girls ages 13-18 from the Phoenix high needs district to enter the STEM workforce. This project builds on the successful NSF-funded COMPUGIRLS award (DRL 08-33773), which uses social justice-based multimedia projects to engage young women in activities that increase knowledge, understanding, and awareness of careers in STEM and information and communications technology (ICT). Arizona State University, will implement this project in partnership with Colorado's Mathematics, Engineering, and Science Achievement (CMESA) program, Education Development Center, YMCA Boulder, Phoenix Union High School District, Gila River Indian Community, and Whiteriver Junction Apache Indian Community. The objectives of the COMPUGIRLS Scale-Up are to increase the number of girls from under-resourced areas exposed to a CRT program; to sustain and replicate the best practices from the ITEST Strategies project; to develop a sustainable and replicable online professional development community; and to create community and academic presentations based on research findings. COMPUGIRLS uses a theoretical framework that includes Culturally Responsive Practices and Future Time Perspectives which complement the career focus of the project. The project design includes both a research and evaluation component. The mixed-methods, participatory research design seeks to increase understanding of how a problem-based multimedia curriculum that incorporates evidenced-based culturally relevant pedagogy affects underserved and underrepresented girls' dispositions to enter the STEM/ICT workforce; how the scale-up process of a girl-centered culturally relevant program operates across learning contexts; and how technology operationalizes professional development and peer networking in different contexts that adopt the COMPUGIRLS program model. The evaluation plan will assess the impact on students' science and STEM learning dispositions, intent to pursue STEM careers, and sustainability.Project deliverables include dissemination to six sites (YMCA-Boulder, Colorado MESA, Whiteriver Unified School District, and ASU Polytechnic and Mercado), four revised courses, an 80-hour professional development course, an online learning community, and an annual cross-site event. The young women participate in four technology courses over a one-year period (e.g. Introduction to Social Justice; SCRATCH, Introduction to Second Life, Second Life Capstone), ending with a 4-8 week summer internship at a local business site. Professional development for teachers utilizes a hybrid approach that incorporates an 8-hour face-to-face course and 100 self-paced online activities. The COMPUGIRLS Learning Community (CLC) is an online learning platform designed to support both students and teachers with social networking, training webinars, and opportunities to showcase completed projects.This project will support nearly 700 students and teachers. It is anticipated that the research studies will help increase understanding of the effect of the COMPUGIRLS program on self concept in technology, academic possible selves, and self regulation in girls of color, in addition to the affects of the model on indigenous girls' cultural selves as expressed in understanding and commitment to cultural traditions. Research findings will be disseminated through the National Center for Women and Information Technology, peer reviewed journals, conferences and meetings, and the COMPUGIRLS Learning Community.