EDU: Cyber Girls: Teacher training and school-based cyber security education for high school girls

EDU：网络女孩：针对高中女生的教师培训和校本网络安全教育

• 批准号: 1623244
• 负责人: Nasir Memon
• 金额: $ 29.99万
• 依托单位: New York University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-01 至 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1623244&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EDU; Cyber; Girls; Teacher; training

The main objective of this two-year project is to develop, implement, and study an intervention that increases cybersecurity awareness and proficiency among high school teachers and exposes high school girls to cybersecurity activities and careers. This objective is spurred by the growing need for cybersecurity professionals coupled with the under-representation of women in this field. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that 18% of cybersecurity specialists are women. There has been increasing awareness that any scalable and sustainable effort to grow the workforce in cybersecurity cannot ignore pre-college students, indicating a need for more effective programs and support for high school aged children, especially girls. However, little is known about what it takes to engage adolescent girls in cybersecurity and combat the dramatic shortage of women in the field. This research study will generate evidence based knowledge about successful cybersecurity professional development for high school teachers and effective cybersecurity instruction for adolescent girls. The results will help other districts and schools justify the use of similar intervention models so that their teachers can break the barriers of stereotype threat and engage and retain girls in the cyber security field.More specifically, this innovative cybersecurity intervention includes the following: (1) A cybersecurity training program for high school teachers; (2) A curriculum made up of hands on, collaborative and ability building activities that help high school teachers introduce their female students to concepts and challenges of cybersecurity within single-sex school-based settings; (3) A female mentor network for high school girls and teachers, field trips that expose girls to opportunities in the field and involvement in a nation-wide high school forensics challenge that attracts thousands of students passionate about cybersecurity; (4) Ongoing technical assistance for teachers implementing the curriculum in order to ensure sustainability of the program in the partnering schools; Over the course of two years, at least 150 girls from 3-6 high schools in New York with racially, ethnically, and socioeconomically diverse student populations will be recruited to participate in the intervention. A quasi-experimental design, using a control group and pre-post tests in each school, will be utilized to examine the success of the intervention. Additionally, a qualitative research design will be utilized to document the process of learning that takes place and the experiences of the students. The impact on, and experience of, teachers in the program will also be studied using a pre-post test quantitative and qualitative research design. This mixed methods study will gauge impact and effectiveness in order to improve future efforts and to produce an evidence-based model for engaging girls in cybersecurity, which can be disseminated nationally.

这个为期两年的项目的主要目的是开发，实施和研究一种干预措施，以提高高中教师的网络安全意识和熟练程度，并使高中女生接受网络安全活动和职业。对网络安全专业人员的需求日益增长的需求以及该领域妇女的代表性不足，这一目标刺激了这一目标。劳工统计局报告说，有18％的网络安全专家是女性。人们越来越认识到，任何可扩展和可持续的努力来发展网络安全的劳动力都不能忽视前大学的学生，这表明需要更有效的计划并为高中年龄的儿童（尤其是女孩）提供支持。但是，对于吸引青春期女孩的网络安全并与该领域女性的戏剧性短缺作斗争，知之甚少。这项研究将为高中教师提供有关成功的网络安全专业发展的基于证据的知识，并为青少年女孩提供有效的网络安全教学。结果将帮助其他地区和学校证明使用类似的干预模型是合理的，以便他们的教师可以打破刻板印象威胁的障碍，并在网络安全领域中吸引和留住女孩。更具体地说，这种创新的网络安全干预包括以下内容：（1）高中教师的网络安全培训计划； （2）由动手，协作和能力建设活动组成的课程，可帮助高中教师向其女学生介绍网络安全的概念和挑战，这些概念和挑战是在单性学校基于学校的环境中的概念和挑战； （3）一个针对高中女生和老师的女性导师网络，使女孩接触到该领域的机会，并参与全国性的高中法医挑战，吸引了成千上万的学生对网络安全充满热情； （4）为实施课程的教师提供的持续技术援助，以确保合作学校中计划的可持续性；在两年的时间里，纽约3-6所中学的至少150名女孩将在种族，种族和社会经济上多样化的学生人群参加干预措施。使用对照组和每所学校中的对照组测试的准实验设计将用于检查干预措施的成功。此外，将利用定性研究设计来记录发生的学习过程和学生的经验。还将使用前测试定量和定性研究设计对计划中教师的影响和经验的影响。这项混合方法研究将衡量影响和有效性，以改善未来的努力，并为使女孩参与网络安全而产生循证模型，这些模型可以在全国范围内传播。