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

教育机会理事会与TERC合作，力求促进对增加有色人种妇女在计算机领域留存的社会和文化因素的了解；并根据该项目的研究结果，实施和评估针对本科生有色人种妇女的辅导和网络干预措施。计算机是独一无二的，因为它是有色人种女性人数最少的STEM领域之一，因为尽管有色人种女性在几乎所有其他STEM领域的代表都在增加，但目前在计算机领域却在减少--尽管国家在技术领域的就业前景有所增加。项目工作人员将对在计算机领域成功服务于有色人种女性的项目进行广泛研究，并将对15名在计算机领域取得成功的有色人种职业女性进行正式采访，以了解她们的教育战略。根据这些调查结果，项目工作人员将仿效辅导和建立网络的做法，制定和评估一项小规模干预措施，这些做法在学习STEM学科的有色人种妇女中被确定为有效的。通过与越来越多的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参加干预的有色人种本科生和可以在项目干预阶段充当本科生导师的专业人员。协助研究人员的将是一个杰出的咨询委员会，该委员会在扩大有色人种妇女在STEM教育中的代表性方面提供专业知识。外部评估员将使用研究分析和叙述性调查的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干预措施的形成性和总结性评估。干预评估将关注三个变量：1)学生对计算机科学的态度，2)他们对计算机科学的坚持性，3)他们对干预的态度和体验。该项目是PIS之前由NSF资助的关于影响有色人种妇女在STEM取得成功的因素的工作的延伸。该项目将有助于更好地理解有色人种女性在计算机方面遇到的复杂挑战。它还将阐明个人和方案战略，使他们能够更充分和更多地参与。该项目最终的更广泛影响应该是一个经过验证的、可扩展的模式，以扭转有色人种女性获得计算机科学学士学位的下降趋势。

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.