BP: Broadening Participation by Building the Capacity of Afterschool Computer Science Educators: Reaching African American and Latina Women with the Build IT Curriculum

SRI将调查计算机科学课程的潜力，建立IT，成功地鼓励非洲裔美国人和拉丁美洲女孩的兴趣和追求计算机科学，鼓励这些女孩？教育工作者追求计算机科学学习和职业。初步数据表明，Build IT可能会增加教育工作者的IT教育和职业追求，他们主要是20多岁和30多岁的有色人种女性。SRI将在两个女孩公司进行混合方法研究。网络的分支机构在整个美国和加州学龄联盟（CalSAC）网络的课后计划在加州了解（1）在什么条件下做建设IT教育工作者追求计算机科学学习和职业，（2）什么类型的计算机科学学习和职业做建设IT教育工作者表示兴趣和追求，以及（3）教育工作者的计算兴趣和追求，他们的Build IT实施情况以及Build IT的青年成果之间存在何种程度的关系。为了解决这些研究问题，该团队将在Girls Inc.和CalSAC网络收集有关其STEM背景、实施实践和IT职业计划的数据。该小组将研究建立信息技术教育工作者的信息技术兴趣和职业计划对青年成果的影响。这项研究对于有兴趣鼓励代表性不足的人群追求STEM学习和职业以及计算机科学学习和职业的从业者，研究人员和政策制定者来说非常重要。虽然有一些证据表明，教干程序可能会鼓励课外教育工作者追求进一步的干经验，有一个差距的作用，教这样一个课外计算机科学课程可以发挥激活或反应的年轻女性从非洲裔美国人和拉丁裔背景在追求计算机科学和这些教育工作者的影响的研究？对女孩的计算机科学学习和职业兴趣的影响。这项研究将为实践和研究提供信息，鼓励学习者和教育工作者的代表性不足的人群追求计算机科学的程序设计和实施环境。通过女孩公司。和CalSAC，建立IT课程和研究成果和做法可以达到数十万的中学女生和成千上万的课外教育工作者谁是主要是女性和来自非洲裔美国人和拉丁美洲背景。

SRI will investigate the potential of a computer science curriculum, Build IT that successfully encourages African American and Latina girls' interests and pursuits in computer science, to encourage these girls? educators to pursue computer science learning and careers. Preliminary data suggest that Build IT may increase IT education and career pursuits among the educators, who are primarily women of color in their 20s and 30s. SRI will conduct a mixed-methods study in both the Girls Inc. network of affiliates throughout the United States and the California School-Age Consortium (CalSAC) network of afterschool programs in California to understand (1) under what conditions do Build IT educators pursue computer science learning and careers, (2) what types of computer science learning and careers do Build IT educators indicate interest in and pursue, and (3) to what extent is there a relationship between educators' computing interests and pursuits, their implementation of Build IT, and youth outcomes for Build IT. To address these research questions, the team will conduct a study of Build IT and other STEM educators in the Girls Inc. and CalSAC networks gathering data on their STEM backgrounds, implementation practices, and their IT career plans. The team will examine the impact of the Build IT educators' IT interests and career plans on youth outcomes. This research is important for practitioners, researchers, and policymakers interested in encouraging underrepresented populations to pursue STEM learning and careers in general and computer science learning and careers, specifically. While there is some evidence that teaching STEM programs may encourage afterschool educators to pursue further STEM experiences, there is a gap in the research on the role that teaching such an afterschool computer science curriculum can play to activate or reactive young women from African American and Latina backgrounds in pursuing computer science and the effect that these educators? pursuits can have on girls' computer science learning and career interests. This research will inform practice and research on programmatic designs and implementation environments that encourage underrepresented populations of both learners and educators to pursue computer science. Through Girls Inc. and CalSAC, the Build IT curriculum and research findings and practices can reach hundreds of thousands of middle school girls and thousands of afterschool educators who are predominantly female and from African American and Latina backgrounds.