Collaborative Research: Pushing Students Away: Developing a Research Agenda for Broadening Participation of African Americans in Engineering and Computer Science

合作研究：将学生拒之门外：制定扩大非裔美国人对工程和计算机科学参与的研究议程

• 批准号: 1926935
• 负责人: Jeremi London
• 金额: $ 12.76万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-10-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1926935&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Pushing; Students; Away

While there have been substantial initiatives designed to broaden the participation of underrepresented groups, producing a diverse workforce is unlikely if the country continues to lose them at each of the major junctures along the education-to-workforce pathway: K-12 education, undergraduate education, graduate education, and workforce. While researchers have published numerous studies on underrepresented groups over the past four decades, trends have not significantly improved, suggesting a disconnection between research and practice and a greater need to investigate the issue of broadening participation at every major segment throughout the education-to-workforce pathway. As a result, the investigators propose to conduct a research project that critically examines the Innovation Cycle of Educational Practice and Research as it relates to broadening participation in engineering and computer science. This study will advance our understanding of the disconnect between research and practice, identify barriers to progress, and set a national agenda for broadening the participation of African Americans in engineering and computer science. The agenda will unify the current literature on this topic, frame key issues, and pose significant questions around the development of a diverse engineering workforce. Aligned with current NSF broaden participation interests and priorities, this agenda will provide: (1) researchers with a backdrop for identifying problems that can be investigated empirically; and (2) practitioners with practical strategies for addressing barriers present in their local context. The research design, guiding this study, will enable us to synthesize the plethora of existing recommendations, while obtaining feedback from researchers, practitioners and other stakeholders alike. The research design will also serve as a model for subsequent studies on broadening the participation of other underrepresented groups in STEM. Further, to readjust current practices for addressing this persistent problem and figure out what is pushing students away, this project involves systematically reviewing the theoretical and scientific literature on barriers to participating and proposing new solutions for each juncture of the education-to-workforce pathway; interviewing subject-matter experts (n=60) to discuss their professional experiences regarding broadening the participation of African Americans and what can be done to gain momentum in African Americans participation in engineering; and conducting a Delphi study (n=20) to reach consensus on the key issues and gaps in our understanding, significant questions, and breakdowns in the Innovation Cycle of Educational Practice and Research. This project will produce the following outcomes: (1) a literature review synthesizing and highlighting the current state of research and practice on broadening the participation of African Americans and an Innovation Cycle of Broadening Participation; (2) a conceptual model that depicts the current relationship between research and practice in this context; and (3) an outline of a national agenda for coordinating the efforts of stakeholders committed to broadening participation of African Americans in engineering and computer science.

尽管已经旨在扩大代表性不足的群体的参与的实质性举措，但如果该国继续在教育对工人的途径的每个主要交界处失去多样化的劳动力：K-12教育，教育不足，教育，研究生教育，教育和劳动力。尽管研究人员在过去的四十年中发表了许多有关代表性群体不足的群体的研究，但趋势并未显着改善，这表明研究和实践之间的脱节以及更需要调查整个教育对工人途径的主要细分市场扩大参与的问题。结果，调查人员建议进行一个研究项目，该项目批判性地研究教育实践和研究的创新周期与扩大参与工程和计算机科学有关。这项研究将促进我们对研究和实践之间的脱节，确定进步的障碍，并为扩大非洲裔美国人参与工程和计算机科学的参与而制定国家议程。议程将统一有关此主题的文献，框架关键问题，并就多样化的工程劳动力的发展提出了重大问题。该议程将与当前的NSF扩大参与兴趣和优先事项相符，将提供：（1）具有识别可以通过经验研究的问题的背景的研究人员； （2）具有实践策略的实践者，以解决当地情况下存在的障碍。指导这项研究的研究设计将使我们能够综合现有建议的大量建议，同时获得研究人员，从业者和其他利益相关者的反馈。该研究设计还将作为随后研究扩大其他代表性不足的sTEM参与的模型。此外，要调整当前解决这个持续问题的实践，并弄清楚什么是将学生赶走，该项目涉及系统地审查有关参与和提出新解决方案的理论和科学文献，以实现对教育到工人的途径的新解决方案；采访主题专家（n = 60），讨论他们有关扩大非洲裔美国人参与的专业经验，以及可以采取什么措施来获得非裔美国人参与工程学的势头；并进行了一项Delphi研究（n = 20），以就我们的理解，重大问题以及教育实践和研究创新周期中的重大问题以及细分的关键问题和差距达成共识。该项目将产生以下结果：（1）文献综述并强调了扩大非裔美国人参与的研究和实践状态，以及扩大参与的创新周期； （2）在这种情况下描述研究与实践之间当前关系的概念模型； （3）国家议程的概述，以协调致力于扩大非洲裔美国人参与工程和计算机科学的参与的利益相关者的努力。

项目成果

A SYSTEMATIC MAPPING OF SCHOLARSHIP ON BROADENING PARTICIPATION OF AFRICAN AMERICANS IN ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE

扩大非裔美国人参与工程和计算机科学的奖学金系统规划

• DOI: 10.1615/jwomenminorscieneng.2020027889
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering
• 作者: London, Jeremi S.;Lee, Walter C.;Phillips, Canek;Van Epps, Amy S.;Watford, Bevlee A.
• 通讯作者: Watford, Bevlee A.