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，他们主要是20多岁和30多岁的有色人种女性。SRI将在美国各地的Girls Inc.附属机构网络和加州学龄联盟(CalSAC)课外计划网络中进行一项混合方法的研究，以了解(1)IT教育工作者在什么条件下追求计算机科学学习和职业，(2)IT教育工作者表示对计算机科学的兴趣和追求的计算机科学学习和职业类型，以及(3)教育工作者的计算兴趣和追求、他们对Build IT的实施以及Build IT的青年成果之间的关系。为了解决这些研究问题，该团队将对Girls Inc.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。该小组将研究建立IT教育人员的IT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从事STEM学习和职业，特别是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很重要。虽然有一些证据表明，教授STEM课程可能会鼓励课外教育工作者进一步追求STEM经验，但关于教授这样一门课外计算机科学课程在激发或反应来自非裔美国人和拉美裔背景的年轻女性学习计算机科学方面所起的作用以及这些教育工作者的作用，目前还存在一个空白。追求可以对女孩的计算机科学学习和职业兴趣产生影响。这项研究将为有关方案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工作者群体追求计算机科学。通过Girls Inc.和CalSAC，Build IT课程和研究成果和实践可以接触到数十万中学女孩和数千名课后教育工作者，她们主要是女性，来自非裔美国人和拉美裔背景。

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.