MPWG: The Douglass Science Institute Program Series: Encouraging Precollege Women to Persist in Math and Science Studies

MPWG：道格拉斯科学研究所计划系列：鼓励大学前女性坚持数学和科学研究

• 批准号: 9450588
• 负责人: Ellen Mappen
• 金额: $ 9.98万
• 依托单位: Rutgers University New Brunswick
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1994
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1994-09-01 至 1996-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9450588&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MPWG; Douglass; Science; Institute; Program

9450588 Mappen The Douglass Science Institute (DSI) Program Series provides in-depth "hands-on" mathematics and science experiences in a single-sex environment for high school women to encourage their persistence in mathematics and science studies. It is planned as a multi-year intervention effort. Research and general literature on the underrepresentation of women in the mathematics, science, and engineering pipeline, as well as on the education of girls, provide evidence that intervention programs during the high school years are essential to reverse the attrition of girls from mathematics and science studies. Differential treatment, lack of encouragement, and of knowledge about career options in mathematics and science, lead to negative attitudes towards these disciplines, limited participation in curricular and extracurricular mathematics and science activities, and lower achievement rates. The Series is offered by the Douglass Project for Rutgers Women in Math, Science, and Engineering, and is held at Douglass College, the women's undergraduate unit of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The Program Series is a student-centered model that provides a continuum of "hands-on" involvement in mathematics, science, and engineering, as well as motivational activities, for high school women over a four-year period. Students begin the program during the summer preceeding the ninth grade, and will be able to continue with it over the following three summers. The program for ninth graders is the initial phase of the series. Students who complete the ninth grade program are encouraged to apply for programs which will take placed during the summers preceding their tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grade years. The Series incorporates many of the characteristics which have been found to be integral components of "exemplary" intervention programs, including "hand-on" instruction and cooperative group work, a multi-year, residential experience on a college campus, rol e models, and activities for parents. Funding from NSF will be used for evaluation and modification of the 10th grade program (to be offered for the first time in 1994), and for development of the first year of the 11th grade program (1995). The segment for Ninth Grade Women is funded primarily by the AT&T Foundation. (Other supporters of the Program Series include the Merck Institute for Science Education, the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, the R.W. Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Institute, and the Schering-Plough Foundation.) The Series can serve as model for others in efforts to increase the numbers of young women in the mathematics, science, and engineering. ***

小行星9450588 道格拉斯科学研究所（DSI）计划系列提供了深入的“动手”数学和科学经验，在一个单一性别的环境中，高中妇女，鼓励他们坚持数学和科学研究。 计划将其作为一项多年期干预工作。 关于妇女在数学、科学和工程学科中代表性不足以及女孩教育的研究和一般文献提供的证据表明，高中阶段的干预方案对于扭转女孩从数学和科学研究中流失的趋势至关重要。 差别待遇、缺乏鼓励以及对数学和科学职业选择的了解，导致对这些学科的消极态度，对课内和课外数学和科学活动的参与有限，以及成绩较低。 该系列是由道格拉斯项目提供的罗格斯妇女在数学，科学和工程，并在道格拉斯学院举行，女子本科单位罗格斯，州立大学的新泽西。 该方案系列是一个以学生为中心的模式，提供了一个连续的“动手”参与数学，科学和工程，以及激励活动，高中妇女在四年的时间。 学生开始的程序在夏季之前的九年级，并将能够继续与它在接下来的三个夏天。 九年级学生的计划是该系列的初始阶段。 鼓励完成九年级课程的学生申请将在他们的第十，第十一和第十二年级前的夏天进行的课程。 该系列包含了许多被认为是“示范性”干预方案不可或缺的组成部分的特点，包括“动手”指导和合作小组工作、多年的大学校园住宿体验、角色模型和家长活动。 国家科学基金会的资金将用于评估和修改10年级方案（1994年首次提供），并用于制定11年级方案的第一年（1995年）。 九年级妇女部分主要由AT T基金会资助。 （该系列计划的其他支持者包括默克科学教育研究所、威廉兰多夫赫斯特基金会、R.W.约翰逊药物研究所和先灵葆雅基金会。） 该系列可以作为其他人努力增加数学，科学和工程领域年轻女性人数的典范。 ***