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，建立成功地鼓励非裔美国人和拉丁裔女孩对计算机科学的兴趣和追求的IT，以鼓励这些女孩？教育工作者追求计算机科学的学习和事业。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，这些教育工作者主要是20多岁和30多岁的有色人种女性。SRI将在全美各地的Girls Inc.分支机构网络和加州学龄联盟（CalSAC）在加州的课后项目网络中开展一项混合方法研究，以了解(1)Build IT教育工作者在什么条件下从事计算机科学学习和职业，(2)Build IT教育工作者对什么类型的计算机科学学习和职业表示兴趣和追求。(3)教育工作者对计算机的兴趣和追求、他们对“构建IT”的实施和青少年在“构建IT”方面的成果之间有多大的关系。为了解决这些研究问题，该团队将对女孩公司和CalSAC网络中的Build IT和其他STEM教育工作者进行研究，收集他们的STEM背景、实施实践和IT职业规划的数据。小组将研究“建设资讯科技”教育工作者的资讯科技兴趣和职业规划对青年成就的影响。这项研究对从业者、研究人员和政策制定者来说非常重要，他们希望鼓励代表性不足的人群从事STEM学习和职业，特别是计算机科学学习和职业。虽然有一些证据表明，教授STEM课程可能会鼓励课后教育者追求进一步的STEM经验，但关于教授这样的课后计算机科学课程在激活或反应来自非洲裔美国人和拉丁裔背景的年轻女性追求计算机科学方面所起的作用以及这些教育者的影响的研究存在空白？追求可以对女孩的计算机科学学习和职业兴趣产生影响。这项研究将为程序化设计和实施环境的实践和研究提供信息，以鼓励未被充分代表的学习者和教育者追求计算机科学。通过Girls Inc.和CalSAC， Build IT课程、研究成果和实践可以惠及成千上万的中学女生和成千上万的课后教育者，这些教育者主要是女性，来自非洲裔美国人和拉丁裔背景。

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.