ITR: Constructing the Computer Science Pipeline: How High School Structures and Norms Narrow Access to Computer Science for Underrepresented Minority Students

EIA-0213662 MarGolis，Jane UCLATitle：构建计算机科学管道：高中结构和规范如何限制未被充分代表的少数族裔学生获得计算机科学的机会这个由ITR和ITWF赞助的研究项目试图了解影响未被充分代表的少数族裔学生在高中学习(或不学习)计算机科学的决定的体制、背景限制和机会。研究人员将调查计算机科学管道是如何构建的。将为三所洛杉矶公立高中制作“技术画像”，并将对这三所学校的大约40名区级技术管理人员、校长、辅导员、计算机科学和数学教师以及技术和磁铁协调员进行深入访谈。这三所学校都有大量的非裔美国人和拉丁裔/a学生。研究人员将研究那些帮助修建管道的人--即州、区和地方教育工作者--的看法和想法。他们将特别关注：1)教育工作者对计算机科学课程应该是什么的看法；2)这些教育工作者形成的课程和课程序列；3)他们用来判断哪些学生应该学习计算机科学，哪些学生不能成功；以及4)这些影响管道建设的规范和结构如何转化为教育工作者在塑造学生选课选择方面的角色。传播调查结果是这项建议的重要组成部分，调查人员将继续与学校教育工作者就这些问题进行讨论。教育署会印制印刷品，在三间学校派发，并会与教师举行会议/讨论，讨论研究结果。调查结果将在全国范围内传播。

EIA-0213662Margolis, Jane UCLATitle: Constructing the Computer Science Pipeline: How high school structures and norms narrow access to Computer Science for underrepresented minority studentsThis ITR- and ITWF-sponsored research project seeks to understand the institutional, contextual constraints and opportunities that affect underrepresented minority students' decisions to study (or not study) computer science at the high school level. The researchers will investigate how the computer science pipeline gets constructed. "Technological portraits" for three Los Angeles public high schools will be developed and in-depth interviews will be conducted with approximately forty district-level technology administrators, principals, counselors, computer science and math teachers, and technology and magnet coordinators at these three schools. Each of these three schools has a high numbers of African-American and Latino/a students.The researchers will study the perceptions and thinking of those who help to construct the pipeline-namely, state, district, and local educators. In particular, they will focus on 1) educators' perceptions of what a computer science curriculum should be for their students; 2) the courses and curriculum sequences that these educators shape; 3) the criteria they use to judge which students should study computer science and which are not capable of success ; and 4) how these norms and structures that influence the construction of the pipeline translate into educators' role in shaping students' course-taking choices. Dissemination of findings is an important part of this proposal and the investigators will hold on-going discussions with school educators about these issues. Printed materials will be produced for distribution in the three schools, and meetings/discussions will be held with the teachers about the research findings. The findings will be disseminated nationally.