CAREER: Cracking the Diversity Code: Understanding Computing Pathways of those Least Represented

佛罗里达国际大学提议探索黑人和西班牙裔女性在计算机科学（CS）方面的途径和经验。尽管全国范围内的计算机科学本科入学率有所增长，但女性的参与度仍然很低。关于她们低参与度的研究主要集中在白人女性的经历上，尽管研究结果导致了一系列旨在提高女性在计算机科学领域参与度的干预措施，但这些干预措施对有色人种女性的参与几乎没有影响。这项研究旨在了解黑人和西班牙裔妇女的经历，以便计算机科学社区可以开始制定对她们有影响的倡议。基于现有的试点，本研究将利用以下理论框架作为指导，探索黑人和西班牙裔妇女在计算机领域的经验：社会身份理论、交叉性和社区文化财富。探索性顺序混合方法设计扩展了首席研究员的初步定性工作，采用严格的混合方法调查。第一阶段将收集探索性的定性叙述，第二阶段将从更广泛的样本中收集定量数据，以解释第一阶段发现的关系，以获得更普遍的结果。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。

Florida International University proposes to explore the pathways and experiences of Black and Hispanic women in computer science (CS). Despite the growth in undergraduate CS enrollment nationally, the participation of women continues to be quite low. Research around their low participation has largely focused on the experiences of White women, and while its findings have resulted in a range of interventions aimed at increasing female participation in CS, those interventions have had little to no impact on engaging women of color. This research aims to develop an understanding of the experiences of Black and Hispanic women so that the CS community can begin to develop initiatives that are accessible and impactful for them. Based on an existing pilot, this research will explore the experiences of Black and Hispanic women in computing using the following theoretical frameworks as guide posts: social identity theory, intersectionality, and community cultural wealth. The exploratory sequential mixed methods design expands the Principal Investigator's preliminary qualitative work, with a rigorous mixed-methods inquiry. The first phase will gather exploratory, qualitative narratives and the second will collect quantitative date from a broader sample in order to explain the relationships found in the first phase for more generalizable results.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.