RDE-BPR1 - Collaborative Research: Modeling IT Career Choices of Persons with Disabilities: The Case of Military Personnel and Veterans

RDE-BPR1 - 协作研究：为残疾人士的 IT 职业选择建模：军人和退伍军人的案例

• 批准号: 1245124
• 负责人: Eileen Trauth
• 金额: $ 27.78万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-10-15 至 2018-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1245124&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RDE; BPR1; Collaborative; Research; Modeling

The "Modeling IT Career Choices of Persons with Disabilities: The Case of Military Personnel and Veterans" award is a Broadening Participation Research project designed to advance understanding of the factors that influence the entrance into, and persistence in, postsecondary information technology (IT) degree programs by disabled military personnel and veterans with disabilities. Researchers at The Pennsylvania State University and Washington State University are working together to explores interest in choosing a career in the IT field as a function of: perceptions about the skills and knowledge needed to be successful as an IT professional; gender stereotypes about IT skills and knowledge; perceptions about occupational roles of persons with disabilities; relative importance placed on various aspects of one's own identity regarding gender, race, ethnicity, socio-economic class and disability; one's feeling of self-confidence regarding the ability to possess the skills and knowledge needed in the IT profession; and role congruity between perceived gender and occupational roles, and IT roles.The overarching research questions that are being examined in the study are the following:1. Is there congruity between perceived IT roles and gender roles for military personnel and veterans with disability?2. Is there congruity between perceived IT roles and occupational roles for military personnel and veterans with disability?3. How do gender roles, IT roles and occupational roles combined with individual identity and self-efficacy affect IT career choices for disabled military personnel and veterans with disability?A comprehensive survey data instrument was designed and developed by the research team and has undergone rigorous validity and reliability testing; it includes new scales for disability identity and for the occupational role of persons with disabilities. Data are being collected from participants recruited from The Pennsylvania State University, Washington State University, San Diego State University and Columbia College, in Columbia Missouri. Data are being collected from subjects using web-surveys and is being analyzed using a variety of statistical techniques corresponding to the use of latent variable modeling. This project will be evaluated by an independent evaluator, Dr. Jennifer LeBeau, and the evaluation will include formative and summative assessments. Results are expected to advance the STEM education field's knowledge about the factors influencing the selection of IT fields by students with disabilities. More specifically the work will provide a better understanding of those psycho-social variables affecting disabled military personnel and veterans with disabilities choice of IT fields. Additionally, findings from this work will inform role congruity and "individual differences" theories as they relate to disability and gender. There is strong potential for findings from this research to advance STEM education practices and policies for students with disabilities.

“残疾人的建模IT职业选择：军人和退伍军人的情况”奖是一个扩大参与研究项目，旨在促进对影响残疾军人和残疾退伍军人进入和坚持中学后信息技术（IT）学位课程的因素的理解。 宾夕法尼亚州立大学和华盛顿州立大学的研究人员正在共同探讨在信息技术领域选择职业的兴趣，作为一个功能：对成功的信息技术专业人员所需的技能和知识的看法;对信息技术技能和知识的性别陈规定型观念;对残疾人职业角色的看法;对自己在性别、种族、族裔、社会经济阶层和残疾等方面的身份认同的相对重要性;对拥有信息技术专业所需技能和知识的能力的自信感;以及角色一致性之间的感知性别和职业角色，和IT角色。对于军人和残疾退伍军人来说，他们所感知的IT角色和性别角色之间是否存在一致性？2.对于军人和残疾退伍军人来说，感知到的IT角色和职业角色之间是否存在一致性？3.如何性别角色，IT角色和职业角色结合个人身份和自我效能感影响残疾军人和残疾退伍军人的IT职业选择？研究小组设计和开发了一个全面的调查数据工具，并经过了严格的有效性和可靠性测试;该工具包括残疾身份和残疾人职业角色的新量表。 数据是从宾夕法尼亚州立大学、华盛顿州立大学、圣地亚哥州立大学和哥伦比亚密苏里州的哥伦比亚学院招募的参与者中收集的。 正在使用网络调查从受试者收集数据，并使用与潜变量建模相对应的各种统计技术进行分析。 该项目将由独立评估员Jennifer LeBeau博士进行评估，评估将包括形成性和总结性评估。 结果预计将推动STEM教育领域的知识的影响因素，选择IT领域的残疾学生。 更具体地说，这项工作将使人们更好地了解影响残疾军人和残疾退伍军人选择信息技术领域的心理社会变量。 此外，这项工作的结果将告知角色一致性和“个体差异”理论，因为它们与残疾和性别有关。这项研究的结果有很大的潜力，可以推动STEM教育实践和残疾学生的政策。