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聘和留住女性的有效计划：大规模 NCWIT ES-UP

• 批准号: 1626631
• 负责人: Lucinda Sanders
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-15 至 2020-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1626631&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Scaling; Effective; Program; Recruiting; Retaining

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.

“扩大有效的计划，招聘和留住妇女在本科计算”是一个试点研究，由国家妇女信息技术中心（NCWIT），将收集证据，以支持随后全面实施的扩展服务本科课程（ES-UP）计划。 ES-UP计划已被证明是成功地解决性别不平衡的本科计算。 ES-UP不是让女性为在为男性设计的教育系统中发挥作用做好准备，而是推动持续变革，以平等地吸引和留住计算机专业的男性和女性。 在过去的八年里，ES-UP所服务的部门的女性毕业生人数增加了6%，而全国的数字仍然持平。 “学习圈”由一个前环境服务方案客户（指南）和四个致力于环境服务方案的部门小组组成，将进行试点，以确定它们在将环境服务方案扩大到国家一级方面的有效性。 学习圈成员将通过全年的在线活动定期会面，学习，分享和开发方法，讨论在实施解决方案时吸取的经验教训，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，以及如何更广泛地扩展该模型。该小组将公布和介绍分析结果。 这项工作的结果将是一个模型，将用于加速国家计算界的大规模改革，利用前ES-UP客户的知识和经验，采用“培训培训员”的方法，将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，纳入现有的专家工作人员和顾问、工具、和基于证据的资源。

项目成果

Strategic Planning for Diversifying Your Student Body in Postsecondary Computing Programs

中学后计算机课程中学生群体多元化的战略规划

• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference (Tapia ’20
• 作者: Huber Ward, Jamie L.;Hovey, Christopher Lynnly;Sanders, Sherri
• 通讯作者: Sanders, Sherri