CISE EAGER: Developing a Collective Impact Model with and for Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Girls to Persist in Computer Science

虽然有许多针对有色人种女孩（夏威夷原住民、阿拉斯加原住民、非洲裔美国人、拉丁裔）的计算机科学项目，但她们通常都有一个共同的限制。具体来说，这些项目中的许多都采用文化响应活动，这些活动鼓励社区行动主义，并已被证明可以激励女孩将自己视为进入计算机相关领域，它们通常采用旨在适用于众多地理区域的几个文化社区的高级理论框架。但在实践中，不同社区和地区的文化、需求和资产在重要方面存在差异，因此，例如，适用于美国东南部非洲裔美国女孩的活动可能并不适用于夏威夷原住民。如果没有针对特定地区和文化的经验验证的理论和框架，程序开发人员、研究人员和资助机构就无法就计算机科学如何为所有人服务做出明智的决定。特别是对于夏威夷原住民和其他土著社区，很少有人提出或制定任何实质性的解决方案。相反，诸如本土知识系统和文化响应计算等理论仍然与计算机科学的努力相分离。我们需要一个针对特定社区和文化的项目的集体影响模型，但人们对这对计算机科学、有色人种女孩、尤其是夏威夷原住民女孩意味着什么理解有限。这个为期两年的项目旨在探索需要什么来确定哪些要素可以用来弥补这一差距。一个跨越学科和地理区域的研究团队将应用两种理论（土著知识系统和文化响应计算），并创造一系列研究机会，探索哪些特征可以构成集体影响模型。来自夏威夷太平洋大学、亚利桑那州立大学和西得克萨斯大学的学者将使用一种特殊的方法，即批判性土著研究方法（CIRM）。除了文化联络和顾问委员会外，青少年（13至18岁）夏威夷原住民、阿拉斯加原住民、非洲裔美国人和拉丁裔女孩将作为研究人员发挥重要作用。该方法使用系统映射作为一种工具，使女孩能够评估系统，识别既促进又阻碍当前和未来计算机科学和技术成功机会的相互作用和联系。该工具为基于这些发现制定的代际讨论、目标和战略提供了机会，并使实时适应、学习和行动成为可能，以支持集体影响。这个项目潜力巨大。如果成功，研究结果将推动课程和活动的理论和教学发展，使技术经验与有色人种女孩的文化身份相结合。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

While there are many computer science initiatives for girls of color (Native Hawaiian, Alaskan Native, African American, Latinx), they often share a constraint. Specifically, many of these programs use culturally responsive activities, which encourage community activism and have been shown to inspire girls to see themselves as entering computer-related fields, they often employ highly-general theoretical frameworks that are designed to apply to several cultural communities in a multitude of geographic regions. But in practice, cultures, needs, and assets differ in important ways across communities and regions, so activities that work for African American girls in the US Southeast might not also work for Native Hawaiians, for instance. Without empirically validated theories and frameworks focused on specific regions and cultures, program developers, researchers, and funding agencies cannot make informed decisions as to how computer science can be for all. Particularly for Native Hawaiian and other Indigenous communities, few solutions have been offered or framed in any substantive way. Instead, theories such as Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Culturally Responsive Computing remain detached from computer science endeavors. A collective impact model for programs focused on specific communities and cultures is needed, yet there is limited understanding of what this means for computer science, girls of color, and Native Hawaiian girls, in particular. This two-year project aims to explore what is needed to identify which elements can be used to bridge that gap. A research team that spans disciplines and geographic regions will apply two theories (Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Culturally Responsive Computing) and create a series of research opportunities to explore which features can constitute a collective impact model. Scholars from Hawai'i Pacific University, Arizona State University, and WestEd will use a particular methodology, Critical Indigenous Research Methodologies (CIRM). Along with a cultural liaison and advisory board, adolescent (13 to 18) Native Hawaiian, Alaskan Native, African American, and Latina girls will play critical roles as researchers. The approach uses systems mapping as a tool that allows the girls to assess the system, identifying interactions and connections that both promote and prevent existing and future opportunities for success in computer science and technology. The tool establishes an opportunity for intergenerational discussions, goals, and strategies to be developed based on these findings and enables real time adaptation, learning, and action to support collective impact. The potential for this project is significant. If successful, findings will advance theoretical and pedagogical development of curriculum and activities that intersect technology experiences with girls' of color cultural identities.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.