ITWF: Toward Gender Equitable Outcomes in IT HIgher Education: Beyond Computer Science

题目：在高等教育中实现性别平等：超越计算机科学这个ITWF奖提供支持，调查信息科学、信息系统、教学系统技术和信息学方面的15个高等教育项目，以计算机科学项目为基准比较，在五个主要的IT学位授予机构。这项研究的目的是确定哪些大学/院系/项目在招收和留住女学生方面最成功，以及随着时间的推移，哪些因素有利于女性的成功。假设由于学术文化的差异，这些项目对女学生的反应是不同的，在部门、大学和学科层面的指导、榜样、同伴支持网络、资助项目和其他资源的可用性方面进行了操作。这些组织文化的测量将与学生成绩的测量和学生经历的自我报告相关联。有关学生经历的数据将通过对5000名学生样本的网络调查收集，然后在两年的时间里对大约155名学生进行三次面对面访谈，对女性进行过度抽样。此外，教师，管理人员和工作人员在研究计划将通过电话和面谈。知识价值。先前的研究已经确定，文化是阻碍女孩和女性学习计算机科学的最重要因素之一。该项目通过在学术IT项目的背景下实施文化，并系统地调查其对学生体验和成果的贡献，为这一领域的知识做出贡献。该项目将找出令人鼓舞和令人沮丧的因素，并产生比较统计数据，可作为未来信息技术教育和性别研究的基线，就像该项目借鉴了以前对计算机科学女学生的研究结果一样。更广泛的影响。随着对信息技术专业人员的需求不断增长，也需要让妇女和女孩参与学习课程，使她们有资格从事与信息技术相关的职业。发现哪些因素鼓励或阻碍了女学生的成功，可以用来为程序性建议提供信息，旨在通过各种各样的教育项目，使更多的女性进入IT管道。在某种程度上，信息、信息学、教育和商业学院教授的新IT范式有助于创造这些文化联系，它们有助于减少学术IT相关项目中持续存在的性别隔离，从而减少IT就业。

ABSTRACTEIA-0305859Jean C. RobinsonIndiana UniversityTitle: Toward Gender Equitable Outcomes in Higher Education: Beyond Computer ScienceThis ITWF award provides support to investigate 15 tertiary education programs in information science, information systems, instructional systems technology, and informatics, with computer science programs as a baseline comparison, in five major IT degree-granting institutions. The purpose of the study is to determine which universities/departments/programs are most successful at recruiting and retaining female students, and what factors favor female success over time. The programs are hypothesized to be differentially responsive to female students due to differences in academic culture, operationalized in terms of the availability of mentorship, role models, peer support networks, grant programs, and other resources at the departmental, university, and disciplinary levels. These measures of organizational culture will be correlated with measures of student outcomes and self-reports of student experiences. Data about students' experiences will be collected through a web-based survey of a sample of 5,000 students, followed by three face-to-face interviews with an estimated 155 students, over-sampling for females, over a two-year period. In addition, faculty, administrators and staff in the study programs will be interviewed by telephone and in person. Intellectual merit. Previous research has identified culture as among the most important factors that discourage girls and women from studying computer science. This project contributes to knowledge in this area by operationalizing culture in the context of academic IT programs and systematically investigating its contribution to student experiences and outcomes. The project will identify encouraging and discouraging factors, and produce comparative statistics, that can be used as a baseline in future research on IT education and gender, much as this project draws on findings from previous research on female students in computer science.Broader impacts. As the need for information technology professionals continues to grow, so too does the need to engage women and girls in courses of study that will qualify them for IT-related careers. Findings of which factors encourage or discourage the success of women students can be used to inform programmatic recommendations aimed at moving more women into the IT pipeline through a diverse range of educational programs. To the extent that new IT paradigms such as are taught in schools of information, informatics, education, and business help to create those cultural associations, they can contribute to reducing the persistent gender segregation in academic IT-related programs and thus IT employment.