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

由国家妇女与信息技术中心(NCWIT)进行的一项试点研究名为“扩大本科生计算机招聘和留住女性的有效计划”，该研究将收集证据，以支持随后全面实施的本科生扩展服务(ES-UP)计划。ES-UP计划已被证明在解决本科生计算中的性别失衡问题上取得了成功。而不是让女性在为男性设计的教育体系中发挥作用，ES-UP促进了持续的变革，以吸引和留住计算机专业的男性和女性。总而言之，在过去的八年里，由ES-UP服务的部门的女性毕业生人数上升了6%，而全国的数字保持不变。将试行由一名前ES-UP客户(指南)和四个承诺的部门团队组成的“学习圈”，以确定它们在将ES-UP推广到国家一级的有效性。学习圈成员将通过全年的在线活动定期会面，学习、分享和制定方法，讨论在实施解决方案时学到的经验教训，并建立社区意识。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，以及如何将模型扩展到更广泛的范围。该小组将公布并公布分析结果。这项工作的结果将是一个模式，将用于加速国家计算机界的大规模改革，以“培训培训者”的方式利用前ES-UP客户的知识和经验，将该模式的关键组成部分，包括个性化咨询、社区和同行知识共享，整合到现有的专家工作人员和顾问、工具和基于证据的资源的基础设施中。

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.