EngageIT: Building Capacity in Community Colleges to Recruit and Retain Underrepresented Students in Computing

EngageIT：社区学院能力建设，以招募和留住计算机领域代表性不足的学生

基本信息

批准号：
1525652
负责人：
Wendy DuBow
金额：
$ 60.52万
依托单位：
University of Colorado at Boulder
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2015
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2015-08-01 至 2019-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1525652&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
EngageIT Building Capacity Community Colleges

项目摘要

A diverse, well-educated computing and information technology (CS/IT) workforce is vital to U.S. well-being. The unique inclusive and open-access mission of community colleges makes them crucial points of intervention. The "EngageIT" project at the University of Colorado at Boulder will develop and test a model of professional development (PD) for community college CS/IT faculty that builds their capacity to recruit and retain women and underrepresented minorities. The project will investigate student persistence in CS/IT disciplines to measure the effectiveness of the PD and to empower faculty with program-specific diversity data.This project will consist of three activities: (1) designing a scalable, research-based PD course; (2) implementing this course with two cohorts of faculty; and (3) tracking student persistence in the discipline as a means to evaluate PD efficacy. The project will make use of the National Center for Women & Information Technology's (NCWIT) considerable expertise and network, including research-based recruitment and retention practices, a 1500+ curricula repository for student engagement (EngageCSEdu), a dedicated community college advisory board, and social scientists to support the project. The study will use a mixed methods approach, which will enable triangulation and synthesized data analysis that is unavailable through a simple quantitative or qualitative study. Rubric-based assessments will provide an objective measure of the implementation of the PD for each faculty member. Assessing both pre- and post-PD will account for the different levels of engagement practices the faculty may already be implementing prior to involvement in this project. Research findings will help educators to understand differential student persistence in CS/IT and the role faculty play in the field's diversification, helping to provide more engaging learning environments for diverse students, and leading to a more diverse U.S. technical workforce.

多元化、受过良好教育的计算和信息技术 (CS/IT) 劳动力对于美国的福祉至关重要。社区大学独特的包容性和开放性使命使其成为干预的关键点。科罗拉多大学博尔德分校的“EngageIT”项目将为社区大学 CS/IT 教师开发和测试专业发展 (PD) 模型，以增强他们招募和留住女性和代表性不足的少数族裔的能力。该项目将调查学生对 CS/IT 学科的坚持程度，以衡量 PD 的有效性，并为教师提供特定于项目的多样性数据。该项目将包括三项活动：（1）设计可扩展的、基于研究的 PD 课程； (2) 由两批教师实施本课程； (3) 跟踪学生对学科的坚持程度，作为评估专业发展成效的一种手段。该项目将利用国家妇女与信息技术中心 (NCWIT) 丰富的专业知识和网络，包括基于研究的招聘和保留实践、1500 多个学生参与课程库 (EngageCSEdu)、专门的社区大学咨询委员会、和社会科学家来支持该项目。该研究将使用混合方法，这将实现三角测量和综合数据分析，这是通过简单的定量或定性研究无法实现的。基于评分标准的评估将为每位教职员工提供对 PD 实施情况的客观衡量。对 PD 前和 PD 后的评估将考虑到教师在参与该项目之前可能已经实施的不同程度的参与实践。研究结果将帮助教育工作者了解不同的学生对 CS/IT 的坚持程度以及教师在该领域多元化中所扮演的角色，有助于为不同的学生提供更具吸引力的学习环境，并导致美国技术劳动力更加多元化。