ITWF: Culture Clash! The Adverse Effects of IT Occupational Subculture on Formative Work Experiences of IT Students

标题：ITWF：文化冲突！IT职业亚文化对IT学生形成工作经验的不利影响本项目探讨了信息技术职业亚文化对高等教育中学生可能产生的不利影响以及可能的应对方法。它包括对IT学生随着时间的推移对职业文化期望、信息来源和看法的纵向分析。根据纵向分析建立的模型随后在对不同IT学生的横断面研究中进行了测试。最后，接种干预在一组工作坊中被应用和评估，以确定学生能够在多大程度上为他们在形成工作经历中可能经历的亚文化压力做好准备。这个项目的智力价值在于它所依据的关于职业文化和亚文化的强大的理论和经验验证的研究工作。研究文化冲突方法还没有广泛应用于IT准专业体验领域，因此本研究提供了新的理解的潜力，这对于解决与IT管道和专业中某些人群代表性不足相关的问题可能特别重要。该项目的更广泛影响在于可由机构调整的模型的潜力，以解决IT亚文化在其项目中可能产生的破坏性影响。通过接种干预部分开发和改进的工具有可能对希望采取类似做法的各种机构具有重大价值。因此，该项目希望通过改善她们早期准职业经历的结果和质量，促进信息技术课程中代表性不足的妇女和少数族裔学生的留住。

Title: ITWF: Culture Clash! The Adverse Effects of IT Occupational Subculture on Formative Work Experiences of IT StudentsThis ITWF project explores possible adverse influences of the information technology occupational subculture on students in higher education and possible ways to counteract them. It includes a longitudinal analysis of the occupational culture expectations, sources of information, and perceptions of IT students over time. Models developed from the longitudinal analysis are then tested in a cross sectional study of diverse IT students. Finally, an inoculation intervention is applied and assessed in a set of workshops to ascertain the extent to which students can be prepared for the subculture stresses they might experience during their formative work experiences.The intellectual merit of this project lies in the strong theoretical and empirically validated research work on occupational cultures and subcultures on which it is based. The research culture clash approach has not been widely applied in the IT paraprofessional experience area and thus this research offers the potential for new understandings that may be particularly important for addressing issues related to the under representation of some populations in the IT pipeline and profession.The broader impacts of the project lie with the potential for models that can be adapted by institutions to address possibly disruptive effects of the IT subculture within their programs. The tools developed and refined through the inoculation intervention component have the potential to be of significant value to a diverse set of institutions that wish to institute similar practices. Thus, this project expects to promote retention of under-represented women and minority students in IT programs by improving the outcomes and quality of their early paraprofessional experiences.