Research Initiation: A Study on the Intersection of Race and Gender on Leadership Formation of Engineering Students

研究启动：种族和性别对工科学生领导力形成的交叉研究

基本信息

批准号：
1738132
负责人：
Carmen Lilley
金额：
$ 19.98万
依托单位：
University of Illinois at Chicago
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2017-09-01 至 2020-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1738132&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Research Initiation Study Intersection Race

项目摘要

Development of leadership skills by undergraduate engineering students is a key to successful careers in today's technology industries. Increasing diversity and inclusion in leadership is also critical for long-term success of technology companies as they increasingly become global enterprises. Yet, how to achieve this greater diversity of leadership continues to prove challenging in both engineering education and industry. This research will serve as a foundational study that explores how identity shapes the leadership beliefs of a diverse population of undergraduate engineering students. The influence of identity, such as race and gender, along with the effects of the intersection of identities on students' beliefs will also be studied. The aim is to identify the factors and create a model of these factors informing how students view leaders, leadership, and the student's own ability to lead. The results of this mapping will contribute to the research and education communities' efforts to train a diverse community of engineers as leaders in industry by creating a foundation model of factors that affect beliefs about students' leadership skills. The ultimate goal of this project is to create new educational approaches for increasing students' belief that they can be leaders. Intersectionality theory, used in this study, is based on the premise that individuals have multiple identities and that the intersection of these identities shape an individual's experiences. It also makes use of self-efficacy, the belief a person has that they are able to achieve a defined goal. Thus, one of the research aims is to include a broad range of identities by recruiting from a diverse pool of undergraduate engineering students. This will make it possible to probe students' leadership self-efficacy and elucidate how intersectionality of identities, namely race and gender, affects this self-efficacy. The strength of an individual's self-efficacy has been shown to strongly correlate with the sustained pursuit by an individual to successfully achieve their defined goal, while overcoming challenges to achieve it. The proposed research aims to identify students' beliefs about leaders, leadership, and their own abilities as leaders, while identifying how the intersectionality of their identities affects these beliefs. While there is a strong body of research on the impact a single identity, such as race/ethnicity or gender, has on engineering formation or leadership development, the nuances of the intersection of identities on leadership formation of engineering students still remains a significant gap in knowledge. This gap impacts the long-term retention and promotion of a diverse community of engineers and their ascension to leadership roles in industry. The research is structured as a qualitative study to analyze the leadership self-efficacy of engineering undergraduate students. Students will be interviewed on their leadership beliefs and a qualitative analysis will be performed using the constant comparative method. The results will be used to create a conditional matrix of leadership self-efficacy of undergraduate engineering students, where identities and intersection of identities are integrated. Finally, a model of leadership self-efficacy and factors that affect this self-efficacy will be developed from the analysis results.

在本科工程专业的学生中发展领导技能是当今技术行业成功职业的关键。随着技术公司越来越多地成为全球企业，增加的多样性和纳入领导力对于长期成功也至关重要。但是，如何实现这种更大的领导能力在工程教育和行业中都具有挑战性。这项研究将作为一项基础研究，探讨身份如何塑造各种本科工程专业学生的领导力信念。身份的影响，例如种族和性别，以及身份交集对学生信仰的影响。目的是确定因素并创建这些因素的模型，以告知学生如何查看领导者，领导力和学生自己的领导能力。该映射的结果将有助于研究和教育社区的努力，通过创建影响对学生领导能力的信念的因素的基础模型来培训各种工程师作为行业领导者。该项目的最终目标是创建新的教育方法，以增加学生对他们可以成为领导者的信念。在本研究中使用的交叉性理论是基于个人具有多种身份的前提，并且这些身份的相交塑造了个人的经历。它还利用自我效能感，一个人相信他们能够实现一个定义的目标。因此，研究的目的之一是通过从各种本科工程专业的学生中招募来包括广泛的身份。这将使探究学生的领导能力自我效能感，并阐明身份的交叉性如何影响这种自我效能感。事实证明，个人自我效能感的力量与个人的持续追求密切相关，以成功实现其确定的目标，同时克服了实现这一目标的挑战。拟议的研究旨在确定学生对领导者，领导能力及其作为领导者能力的信念，同时确定其身份交叉性如何影响这些信念。尽管对单个身份的影响（例如种族/种族或性别）对工程形成或领导力发展有大量研究，但身份相交对工程专业学生领导力形成的差异仍然是知识的显着差距。这一差距影响了多样化的工程师社区的长期保留和促进，及其在工业中的领导角色上升。这项研究是作为定性研究的结构，用于分析工程本科生的领导能力自我效能。将对学生的领导信念进行采访，并将使用恒定的比较方法进行定性分析。结果将用于创建本科工程专业学生的领导能力自我效能的条件矩阵，在该学生的身份和身份相交是整合的。最后，将从分析结果中发展出领导自我效能感和影响这种自我效能的因素的模型。