The IT College and CAREERS Readiness Project: Career Academy Research on Educational Experiences and Related Successes

该项目将推动学生和教师创新技术体验（ITEST）计划的努力，通过参与实践现场经验、实验室/项目创业任务和指导经验，更好地理解和促进提高学生在科学、技术、工程或数学（STEM）领域追求职业的动机和能力的实践。与美国科学院基金会和三所高中职业学院合作，研究在不同实施保真度水平下，美国科学院基金会实施的职业学院模式对参与的影响。该项目的目标是：(a)研究不同程度的资讯科技职业学院的组织和实施要素（使命、课程和教学、内部和外部支持）的性质；(b)确定学生在不同保真度的美国国家科学院基金会IT职业学院的经历；(c)记录美国国家科学院基金会IT职业学院学生的大学和职业准备指标（参与、表现、过渡），并与非职业学院的美国国家科学院基金会学生进行比较。该项目将依靠现有的数据集中的学生水平数据和全面的实地考察数据来满足该项目。本研究的主要重点是研究不同实施层次下国家科学院基金会实施的职业学院模式的参与影响。采用混合方法，该项目将由三个研究问题驱动：(1)不同保真度的IT职业学院的组织和实施要素（使命、课程和教学、内部和外部支持）的性质是什么？(2)学生在不同保真度的NAF IT职业学院的经历如何？(3)与非职业院校学生相比，不同保真度的NAF IT职业院校学生的大学和职业准备指标（敬业度、绩效、过渡）有何不同？

This project will advance efforts of the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program to better understand and promote practices that increase students' motivations and capacities to pursue careers in fields of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) by engaging in hands-on field experience, laboratory/project-based entrepreneurship tasks and mentorship experiencesThis ITEST project involves the University of South Florida, in collaborations with the National Academy Foundation, and three high school career academies, to study the impact of participation in the career academy model implemented by National Academy Foundation under different levels of implementation fidelity. The goals of the project are: (a) to examine the nature of organizational and implementation elements (mission, curriculum and instruction, internal and external supports) of information technology (IT) career academies with different levels of fidelity; (b) to determine student experiences in National Academy Foundation IT career academies with different levels of fidelity; and (c) to document indicators of college and career readiness (engagement, performance, transitions) of students in National Academy Foundation IT career academies with different levels of fidelity in comparison to National Academy Foundation students in non-career academies. The project will rely on extant student-level data from the dataset and comprehensive site visit data to meet the project.The primary focus of the proposed research is to study the impact of participation in the career academy model implemented by the National Academy Foundation under different levels of implementation. Using a mixed methods approach, the project will be driven by three research questions: (1) What is the nature of organizational and implementation elements (mission, curriculum and instruction, internal and external supports) of IT career academies with different levels of fidelity? (2) What are the student experiences in NAF IT career academies with different levels of fidelity? (3) What are the indicators of college and career readiness (engagement, performance, transitions) of students in NAF IT career academies with different levels of fidelity in comparison to students in non-career academies?