BP: Computing Beyond the Double Bind: Women of Color in Computing Education and Careers

BP：超越双重束缚的计算：计算机教育和职业中的有色人种女性

• 批准号: 1240768
• 负责人: Apriel Hodari
• 金额: $ 59.9万
• 依托单位: Council for Opportunity in Education
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-01-01 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1240768&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: BP; Computing; Beyond; Double; Bind

The Council for Opportunity in Education, in collaboration with TERC, seeks to advance the understanding of social and cultural factors that increase retention of women of color in computing; and implement and evaluate a mentoring and networking intervention for undergraduate women of color based on the project's research findings. Computing is unique because it ranks as one of the STEM fields that are least populated by women of color, and because while representation of women of color is increasing in nearly every other STEM field, it is currently decreasing in computing - even as national job prospects in technology fields increase. The project staff will conduct an extensive study of programs that have successfully served women of color in the computing fields and will conduct formal interviews with 15 professional women of color who have thrived in computing to learn about their educational strategies. Based on those findings, the project staff will develop and assess a small-scale intervention that will be modeled on the practices of mentoring and networking which have been established as effective among women of color who are students of STEM disciplines. By partnering with Broadening Participation in Computing Alliances and local and national organizations dedicated to diversifying computing, project staff will identify both women of color undergraduates to participate in the intervention and professionals who can serve as mentors to the undergraduates in the intervention phase of the project. Assisting the researchers will be a distinguished Advisory Board that provides expertise in broadening the representation of women of color in STEM education. The external evaluator will provide formative and summative assessments of the project's case study data and narratives data using methods of study analysis and narrative inquiry and will lead the formative and summative evaluation of the intervention using a mixed methods approach. The intervention evaluation will focus on three variables: 1) students' attitudes toward computer science, 2) their persistence in computer science and 3) their participant attitudes toward, and experiences in, the intervention. This project extends the PIs' previous NSF-funded work on factors that impact the success of women of color in STEM. The project will contribute an improved understanding of the complex challenges that women of color encounter in computing. It will also illuminate individual and programmatic strategies that enable them to participate more fully and in greater numbers. The ultimate broader impact of the project should be a proven, scalable model for reversing the downward trend in the rates at which women of color earn bachelor's degrees in computer science.

教育机会理事会与TERC合作，旨在促进对增加有色人种妇女在计算机领域保留的社会和文化因素的理解;并根据该项目的研究结果，实施和评估有色人种本科妇女的指导和网络干预。计算是独一无二的，因为它被列为有色人种女性最少的STEM领域之一，因为虽然有色人种女性的代表性在几乎所有其他STEM领域都在增加，但目前在计算领域却在减少-即使技术领域的国家就业前景增加。该项目的工作人员将进行广泛的研究，已成功地为有色人种妇女在计算领域的方案，并将进行正式采访的15名专业妇女的颜色谁在计算蓬勃发展，以了解他们的教育策略。根据这些调查结果，项目工作人员将制定和评估一个小规模的干预措施，该措施将以指导和建立网络的做法为蓝本，这些做法在STEM学科的有色人种妇女中行之有效。通过与扩大参与计算联盟以及致力于多样化计算的地方和国家组织合作，项目工作人员将确定有色人种大学生中的女性参与干预，以及可以在项目干预阶段担任本科生导师的专业人员。协助研究人员将是一个杰出的咨询委员会，提供专业知识，扩大有色人种妇女在STEM教育中的代表性。外部评价员将使用研究分析和叙述调查方法对项目的案例研究数据和叙述数据进行形成性和总结性评估，并将使用混合方法方法领导对干预措施的形成性和总结性评价。干预评估将集中在三个变量：1）学生对计算机科学的态度，2）他们对计算机科学的坚持和3）他们的参与态度，并在干预的经验。该项目扩展了PI先前由NSF资助的工作，研究影响有色人种女性在STEM领域成功的因素。该项目将有助于更好地了解有色人种妇女在计算中遇到的复杂挑战。它还将阐明使他们能够更充分和更多地参与的个人和方案战略。该项目的最终更广泛的影响应该是一个经过验证的，可扩展的模型，用于扭转有色人种女性获得计算机科学学士学位的比例下降的趋势。