CAREER: Developing Agentic Computing Identities Through Computational Justice Programs

职业：通过计算正义项目开发代理计算身份

• 批准号: 2045492
• 负责人: Patricia Garcia
• 金额: $ 54.99万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-01 至 2026-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2045492&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Developing; Agentic; Computing; Identities

Women of color (e.g. African American, Hispanic, and Native American) remain largely underrepresented in computing degree programs and careers. Sociocultural barriers are significant contributors to the stratification of participation in computing along racialized, gendered, and classed lines. However, focusing solely on long-standing sociocultural barriers can have the unintended consequence of perpetuating deficit narratives and further preventing girls of color from envisioning themselves as active participants in computing. This study challenges deficit narratives through an investigation of how a computational justice program model can support girls of color (ages 13-16) in developing agentic computing identities. An agentic computing identity describes the ability to view oneself as an active participant in computing with the knowledge and skills to enact social change and control future life trajectories. A computational justice approach develops concrete computing skills and simultaneously provides opportunities for girls of color to ground those skills in self-directed forms of personal and collective action. This research makes intellectual contributions to K-12 computer science education and design-based research through: (1) an empirical understanding of how girls of color develop computing identities, (2) a broadened conceptual understanding of computing identities that incorporates agency as a core construct, (3) an empirical understanding of how investigating the relationship between computing and social change influences feelings of self-efficacy, competency, recognition, interest, and agency among girls of color, (4) a theoretical examination of how concepts from social science disciplines (social change, collective action, agency) can inform K-12 CS education efforts, and (5) a novel co-design process that leverages cooperative partnerships for sustained adoption of informal computing programs. This research will create a robust computing identity model that moves beyond performance-based identity models and can theoretically inform educational interventions aimed at broadening participation in computing. It will also contribute a program model that includes an asset-based pedagogical approach, justice-centered curricular design, and practitioner-informed training.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.

有色人种女性（如非裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人和印第安人）在计算机学位课程和职业生涯中的代表性仍然很低。社会文化障碍是计算机参与沿种族、性别和阶级线分层的重要贡献者。然而，仅仅关注长期存在的社会文化障碍可能会产生意想不到的后果，即持续存在缺陷叙事，并进一步阻止有色人种女孩将自己视为计算机领域的积极参与者。本研究通过调查计算正义程序模型如何支持有色人种女孩（13-16岁）发展代理计算身份来挑战缺陷叙事。代理计算身份描述了将自己视为具有制定社会变革和控制未来生活轨迹的知识和技能的计算的积极参与者的能力。计算正义方法发展具体的计算技能，同时为有色人种女孩提供机会，使她们能够在自我指导的个人和集体行动形式中掌握这些技能。本研究通过以下方式为K-12计算机科学教育和基于设计的研究做出了智力贡献：(1)对有色人种女孩如何发展计算身份的实证理解；(2)对计算身份的广义概念理解，将代理作为核心结构；(3)对研究计算与社会变革之间的关系如何影响有色人种女孩的自我效能感、能力感、认同度、兴趣感和代理感的实证理解；(4)对社会科学学科概念(社会变革；集体行动，机构)可以为K-12计算机科学教育工作提供信息，(5)利用合作伙伴关系持续采用非正式计算程序的新颖共同设计过程。这项研究将创建一个强大的计算身份模型，超越基于性能的身份模型，理论上可以为旨在扩大计算参与的教育干预提供信息。它还将提供一个项目模式，其中包括基于资产的教学方法、以正义为中心的课程设计和从业人员知情培训。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。

项目成果

Tracing Participation Beyond Computing Careers: How Women Reflect on Their Experiences in Computing Programs

追踪计算机职业之外的参与：女性如何反思她们在计算机项目中的经历

• DOI: 10.1145/3582564
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: ACM Transactions on Computing Education
• 影响因子: 2.4
• 作者: Perez, Melissa;Garcia, Patricia
• 通讯作者: Garcia, Patricia