Understanding the Barriers that Contribute to the Gender Gap in Computing in Higher Education

了解导致高等教育计算领域性别差距的障碍

• 批准号: 2225314
• 负责人: Sara Hooshangi
• 金额: $ 33.69万
• 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: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-08-01 至 2025-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2225314&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Understanding; Barriers; Contribute; Gender; Gap

Participation in computer science by women is a significant goal for NSF and benefits the nation’s workforce in emerging technologies. Academic and career path decisions are made by individuals and understanding barriers that contribute to student selection of computer science careers may reduce the gender gap in this field. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University seeks to understand personal, social, and institutional constraints that influence the decision-making of first-year non-computer science/non-engineering female undergraduate students. The professional development plan will build research capacity through developing skills in mixed methods approaches to STEM education research. This project focuses on female students who are not in the technology pathway and therefore can provide insights into experiences that lead to academic and career selection. The goals of the project are to examine decision-making factors that influence the choice to stay or exit the computer science pathway, identify stories of challenges and successes of non-computer science female students in introductory computer science courses, and derive lessons that can be applied towards best practices in designing a welcoming and thriving environment to promote further engagement by women in computer science. From a foundation of Bronfenbrenner’s ecological theory and sociocultural self model of behavior, the project seeks to examine individual contextualize choice in relation to institutional and course structure. The project is supported by NSF's EHR Core Research Building Capacity in STEM Education Research (ECR: BCSER) program, which is designed to build investigators’ capacity to carry out high-quality STEM education research.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.

女性参与计算机科学是NSF的一个重要目标，使国家新兴技术领域的劳动力受益。学术和职业道路的决定是由个人做出的，了解有助于学生选择计算机科学职业的障碍可能会缩小该领域的性别差距。弗吉尼亚理工学院和州立大学试图了解影响一年级非计算机科学/非工程类女本科生决策的个人、社会和制度制约因素。专业发展计划将通过培养STEM教育研究的混合方法方法的技能来建设研究能力。这个项目的重点是那些不在技术道路上的女学生，因此可以提供对导致学业和职业选择的经历的洞察。该项目的目标是审查影响选择离开或离开计算机科学道路的决策因素，确定非计算机科学女学生在计算机科学入门课程中面临的挑战和成功的故事，并总结可应用于设计一个欢迎和繁荣的环境的最佳做法的经验教训，以促进妇女进一步参与计算机科学。从布朗芬布伦纳的生态学理论和社会文化自我行为模式的基础上，该项目试图检查与制度和课程结构有关的个人情境选择。该项目由NSF的STEM教育研究中的EHR核心研究能力建设计划(ECR：BCSER)支持，该计划旨在建设研究人员开展高质量STEM教育研究的能力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。