Effectiveness of a Summer Experience for Inspiring Interest in Geoscience Among Hispanic-American High School Students
Effectiveness of a Summer Experience for Inspiring Interest in Geoscience Among Hispanic-American High School Students
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暑期体验对于激发西班牙裔美国高中生对地球科学的兴趣的有效性
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10.5408/1089-9995-55.6.596
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发表时间：
2007
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R. P. Langford
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作者：
K. Miller;T. Carrick;Carmen Martínez;R. Levine;C. Andronicos;R. P. Langford
暑期课程是提高K-12学生对STEM（科学，技术，工程和数学）职业兴趣的常见策略。在这里，我们报告了为期两周的计划，旨在使西班牙裔美国高中生在埃尔帕索，得克萨斯州的内容和职业生涯在地球科学四年的结果。该计划的目标是在一群已经对STEM职业感兴趣的学生中增加对地球科学的兴趣，以刺激从现在在地球科学劳动力中代表性不足的人口群体进入地球科学的学生数量的长期增加。参与前后调查数据形式的短期指标显示，参与者对地球科学的态度发生了统计上显著的积极变化。长期指标，以调查结果的形式，旨在跟踪参与者的大学生涯，显示55%的人仍然在地球科学管道中，通过选择STEM学科作为大学专业来衡量，10%是地质学专业。这种高留存率与国家数据相比非常有利，国家数据显示，2001年，32%的学士学位授予科学和工程学科，其中1%授予地球科学。
Summer programs are a common strategy for increasing interest in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) careers among K-12 students. Here we report four years of results from a two-week program designed to expose Hispanic-American high school students in El Paso, Texas to content and careers in the geosciences. The goal of the program was to grow interest in geoscience among a group of students already interested in STEM careers in order to spur a long-term increase in the number of students entering the geosciences from a demographic group that is now greatly under-represented in the geoscience workforce. Short-term indicators, in the form of data from pre- and post-participation surveys, show statistically significant positive changes in participants' attitudes towards geoscience. Longer-term indicators, in the form of survey results designed to track participants' college careers, show that 55% are still in the geoscience pipeline, as measured by a choice of a STEM discipline as a college major and 10% are geology majors. This high retention rate compares very favorably with national data that show that in 2001, 32% of all bachelor's degrees were awarded in science and engineering disciplines of which 1% were in geosciences.