Active Learning Group Work: Helpful or Harmful for Women in Engineering?
Active Learning Group Work: Helpful or Harmful for Women in Engineering?
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主动学习小组工作：对工程领域的女性有益还是有害？
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2018
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Janet Y. Tsai
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Megan Keogh;Malinda Zarske;Janet Y. Tsai
主动学习是一种趋势工程教育技术在全国各地的大学使用。这种教育方法通过小组项目培养学生的技术和非技术技能，要求团队应用他们的集体知识来解决各种“现实世界”的问题。它的协作性、实践性对那些有兴趣让学生更好地为日益复杂和动态的工程世界做好准备的教师很有吸引力。然而，小组设置显示出对工程领域的女性施加了额外的压力，这是一个在STEM领域已经被边缘化的群体。这项由科罗拉多大学博尔德分校（University of Colorado Boulder）进行的研究结果表明，许多女性喜欢主动学习，因为这有助于她们培养长期的材料记忆和解决问题的能力，同时也因为她们发现，看到自己的工程实践效果是值得的。然而，女性也报告说她们在团队环境中面临着一些挑战，特别是在团队项目中承担非技术角色的压力。为了使积极的学习小组工作充分发挥其潜力，必须在课堂上解决妇女在团队环境中面临的挑战。如果这些问题得到缓解，主动学习将成为一种越来越成功的方法，使男女为将来的小组工作做好准备。
Active Learning is a trending engineering education technique used at universities across the country. This educational approach fosters students’ technical and non-technical skills through group projects that require teams to apply their collective knowledge to solve various “real world” problems. Its collaborative, hands-on nature is appealing to instructors who are interested in better preparing their students for the increasingly complex and dynamic world of engineering. However, group settings have shown to put additional stresses on women in engineering, an already marginalized group in STEM fields. The results of this study, conducted at the University of Colorado Boulder, show that many women enjoy active learning because it helps them develop long-term material retention and problem-solving skills, as well as because they find it rewarding to see the effects of their engineering in action. However, women also reported that they face several challenges in team settings, especially being pressured to take on non-technical roles in group projects. In order for active learning group work to realize its full potential, the challenges that women face in team settings must be addressed in the classroom. If the issues are mitigated, active learning will become an increasingly successful way to prepare men and women for group work in the future.