Undergraduate science. Weed-out courses hamper diversity.
Undergraduate science. Weed-out courses hamper diversity.
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本科科学。
DOI：
10.1126/science.334.6061.1333
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发表时间：
2011
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影响因子：
56.9
通讯作者：
J. Mervis
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作者：
J. Mervis
美国大学科学系主任说，利用入门课程淘汰攻读科学和工程学位的学生的历史悠久的做法阻碍了吸引更多女性和少数族裔进入这些领域的努力。但是教授们认为没有必要改变他们的教学方法。这种矛盾出现在拜耳基金会的一项调查中，这是其科学教育年度系列的第15次调查。来自前200所研究型大学和少数民族服务机构的400多名主席回答了一系列关于他们对代表性不足的少数民族（非洲裔美国人，西班牙裔美国人和土著美国人）和妇女的态度的问题。这是去年调查的后续，调查询问了这些学生在攻读STEM（科学、技术、工程和数学）学位时所面临的障碍。
The time-honored practice of using introductory courses to weed out students seeking degrees in science and engineering hinders efforts to attract more women and minorities into those fields, say the chairs of science departments at U.S. universities. But the professors see no need to change their approach to teaching. That contradiction appears in a survey by the Bayer Foundation, the 15th in its annual series on science education. More than 400 chairs from the top-200 research universities and from minority-serving institutions responded to a series of questions on their attitudes toward underrepresented minorities (African-Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans) and women. It9s a follow-up to last year9s survey asking those students about the obstacles they face in pursuing STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) degrees.