Resources

Your computing department’s website is a crucial platform for informing and engaging prospective students. These strategies will help you create a website that showcases the impactful and versatile nature of computing, highlights your department’s strengths,...

The NCWIT Engagement Practices Framework is a set of three evidence-based principles for engaging and retaining ALL students: Make It Matter, Grow Inclusive Student Community, and Build Student Confidence and Professional Identity. This poster outlines actionable things...

Just Because You Always Hear It, Doesn’t Mean It’s True. Not all approaches to widening participation in technology are research-based or effective. This guide is intended to help you identify common misunderstandings that surface when...

Are your job descriptions unintentionally narrowing your candidate pool and causing you to miss out on highly qualified professionals? Subtle assumptions about who traditionally does a job, the language used, or an over-emphasis on unnecessary...

Computing offers high quality jobs and is one of the fastest growing occupations in the United States. This resource compares computing to other occupations on quality of life issues such as pay, educational requirements, and...

This poster highlights the importance of community colleges in educating the computing workforce. It connects various pathways into community colleges, outlines some of key components of the community college experience, and shows the robust growth...

What is unconscious bias? Research reveals that even those with strong egalitarian values who consider themselves unbiased may unconsciously behave in discriminatory ways. Studies on unconscious and implicit bias demonstrate that our intuition and snap...

Effective feedback gives employees information they can realistically use to increase their learning and improve their performance. It abandons a “fixed mindset” that sees skills as “innate abilities” and instead employs a “growth mindset” that...

These tips will help you to engage students in your computing courses and retain them in the major. These ideas and examples are drawn from theory and research conducted by social scientists who study how...

Effective feedback gives students the information they actually use to increase their learning and improve their performance. It should employ a “growth mindset” that focuses on developing intelligence through effort, practice, and “wise feedback” that...

These four self-guided lessons will prepare you to teach young people about computing in a fun and engaging way. Based on the Computational Textiles Curriculum and Sew Electric from MIT, e-Textiles-in-a-Box provides instructions for sewing...

Are your job descriptions unintentionally narrowing your candidate pool and causing you to miss out on highly qualified professionals? Subtle assumptions about who traditionally does a job, the language used, or an over-emphasis on unnecessary...

This report, sponsored by NCWIT’s Workforce Alliance, provides an inside look into how men think about and advocate for diversity in the technical workplace. Drawing from interviews with 47 men in technical companies and departments,...

Introduce students to computer science through AgentCubes, a powerful and engaging 2-D and 3-D programming tool. By completing the lessons in this program-in-a-box, your middle school students will learn to program their own games and...

Girls in IT: The Facts, sponsored by NCWIT’s K-12 Alliance, is a synthesis of the existing literature on increasing girls’ participation in computing. It aims to bring together this research so that readers can gain...

This resource includes ten recommendations managers can readily adopt to help all employees unlock their full potential, thereby improving retention and boosting team performance.  These strategies are particularly useful for retaining employees who may not...

Many factors at work affect how visible employees are and how valuable they are perceived to be–and many of these factors are unrelated to technical skill. For example, tech employees in one NCWIT study pointed...

Empower the next generation of researchers and innovators with REU-in-a-Box, a comprehensive toolkit designed to help faculty mentors launch and lead successful Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs). Developed by experienced computing faculty and researchers, this...

Supervising-in-a-Box Series: Supervisors as Change Agents is for managers who wish to become change agents in their organizations. The materials are focused on actions that you as an individual manager can take to raise awareness...

Supervising-in-a-Box: Performance Review/Talent Management provides supervisors with resources for reducing biases in performance evaluation and talent management systems. This “Box” includes tip sheets, resources for identifying and reducing biases, templates, evaluation tools, key takeaways, and...