MPWG: Internet Explorers: Using New Technolgies to Encourage Women Toward SEM Careers

MPWG：Internet Explorers：利用新技术鼓励女性从事 SEM 职业

• 批准号: 9631837
• 负责人: Lawrence Genalo
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Iowa State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-01-01 至 1998-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9631837&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MPWG; Internet; Explorers; Using; New

High school girls who have completed their junior year will spend eight weeks during the summer on the Iowa State University (ISU) campus where they will research programming methods and develop biological and physical science, engineering, and mathematics (SEM) units for the Internet. These units will be designed to get middle school girls to explore careers in those areas. The summer research interns will be directed by a team of four female graduate students who have demonstrated ability in computers, are trained in courseware development, and are in SEM-related fields. A fifth female graduate student in secondary education will work as consultant to the team to provide expertise in curricular content, educational delivery, and impact on the targeted middle school students. Although the graduate women's experiences also will enhance their professional development, the primary goal of increasing girls' participation in SEM will be accomplished through the following: developing computer Internet explorations packages that will attract middle school girls to SEM; training high school girls in the use of computer technology to design and develop the explorations package, which will be the focus of their summer research internship on the ISU campus; using ISU graduate women in SEM to supervise the explorations package development process on a daily basis, adding a special dimension to their graduate school experience; working with experts in middle school education to achieve the desired impact; disseminating the developed packages through the Internet; publicizing these readily available, no-cost resource packages to statewide education agencies through announcements in education journals, at educator conferences, and at career exploration events for middle school girls and community groups like the Girl Scouts and 4-H; and advertising the project and its product nationwide through notes to education-oriented newsgroups and through reports at conferences on edu cation, computers, and gender issues.

完成大三学业的高中女生将在夏季在爱荷华州州立大学（ISU）校园度过八周时间，在那里她们将研究编程方法，并为互联网开发生物和物理科学、工程和数学（SEM）单元。 这些单元将旨在让中学女生探索这些领域的职业。 暑期研究实习生将由一个由四名女研究生组成的团队指导，她们具有计算机能力，接受过课件开发培训，并且在SEM相关领域。 第五名中等教育女研究生将担任该小组的顾问，在课程内容、教育提供和对目标中学生的影响方面提供专门知识。 虽然女毕业生的经历也将促进她们的专业发展，但增加女孩参加教育和管理学的主要目标将通过以下方式实现：开发吸引中学女孩参加教育和管理学的计算机互联网探索包;培训高中女生使用计算机技术设计和开发探索包，这将是他们在国际空间大学校园进行暑期研究实习的重点;利用国际空间大学毕业的妇女在SEM中每天监督探索包的开发过程，为她们的研究生院经历增加一个特殊的层面;与中学教育专家合作，以实现预期的影响;通过互联网传播开发的软件包;通过在教育期刊上的公告，在教育工作者会议上，以及在中学女生和女童子军和4-H等社区团体的职业探索活动中，向全州教育机构宣传这些随时可用的免费资源包;通过在面向教育的新闻组中的说明以及在关于教育、计算机和性别问题的会议上的报告，在全国范围内宣传该项目及其产品。