Scaling an Effective Program for Recruiting and Retaining Women in Undergraduate Computing: NCWIT ES-UP at Scale

“扩大在本科计算机领域招募和留住女性的有效计划”是由国家妇女信息技术中心（NCWIT）开展的一项试点研究，该研究将收集证据，以支持随后全面实施本科项目扩展服务（ES-UP）计划。ES-UP项目已被证明在解决计算机专业本科生的性别失衡问题上取得了成功。ES-UP不是让女性在专为男性设计的教育体系中发挥作用，而是推动持续的变革，以吸引和留住计算机专业的男性和女性。在过去的八年中，esup所服务的部门的女性毕业生总数持续增长了6%，而全国的数字则持平。“学习圈”由一名前esup客户（指南）和四个承诺的部门小组组成，将进行试点，以确定它们在将esup扩大到国家一级方面的有效性。学习圈成员将全年通过在线活动定期会面，学习、分享和开发方法，在实施解决方案时讨论所学到的经验教训，并建立一种社区意识。项目团队将收集数据并进行分析，以了解什么对学习圈有效，以及如何更广泛地扩展模型。该团队将公布并展示分析结果。这项工作的成果将形成一个模型，用于加速全国计算界的大规模改革。该模型以“培训培训师”的方式利用esup前客户的知识和经验，将该模型的关键组成部分（包括个性化建议、社区和同行知识共享）整合到现有的专家人员和顾问、工具和循证资源基础设施中。

The "Scaling an Effective Program for Recruiting and Retaining Women in Undergraduate Computing" is a pilot study conducted by the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) that will gather evidence to support a subsequent full-scale implementation of the Extension services for Undergraduate Programs (ES-UP) program. The ES-UP program has been shown to be successful in addressing gender imbalance in undergraduate computing. Rather than preparing women to function in an educational system designed for men, ES-UP advances sustained change to attract and retain men and women equally in computing majors. Combined, the departments served by ES-UP over the past eight years have sustained a 6% climb in graduations of women, while national figures remain flat. "Learning Circles" consisting of one former ES-UP client (Guide) and four committed departmental teams will be piloted to determine their effectiveness in scaling the ES-UP to a national level. Learning Circle members will meet regularly via online events throughout the year, learning, sharing, and developing approaches, discussing lessons learned as they implement their solutions, and building a sense of community. The project team will collect data and conduct analysis to understand what works for Learning Circles and how to extend the model more broadly. The team will publish and present the results of the analyses. The result of this work will be a model that will be used to accelerate large-scale reform in the national computing community, leveraging the knowledge and experience of former ES-UP clients in a "train-the-trainer" approach that integrates the critical components of the model, which includes personalized advice, community, and peer knowledge sharing, into an existing infrastructure of expert staff and consultants, tools, and evidence-based resources.