Responding to the Gender Gap in Informal Science Education

应对非正式科学教育中的性别差距

• 批准号: 9815021
• 负责人: Kevin Crowley
• 金额: $ 58.55万
• 依托单位: University of Pittsburgh
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-02-01 至 2003-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9815021&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Responding; Gender; Gap; Informal; Science

9815021CrowleyTITLE: Responding to the Gender Gap in Informal Science EducationUnder the direction of Kevin Crowley, the Learning Research and Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh will investigate gender bias in parental explanations in informal learning settings. This project, Responding to the Gender Gap in Informal Science Education, will build on previous research at children's museums where the conversations of 338 families with children eight years and younger at sixteen different interactive exhibits were recorded and analyzed. They found that parents were almost three times more likely to use explanations when interacting with boys than girls. In this project they will conduct additional research to isolate the causes and outcomes associated with gender bias in these parental explanations and then they will develop, evaluate, and disseminate a range of low-cost methods to modify science exhibits to support parental explanation to both girls and boys. The latter will take the form of an Explanation Toolbox (XBox) which will be a set of resources to help museums construct and evaluate their own modifications to support non-biased parental explanations, with special attention paid to including explanations for the young girls, in addition to the usual conversations about manipulating the exhibits and about the visual, auditory, and tactile information produced by the exhibit. Results of the research and the toolbox will be broadly disseminated via the World Wide Web and published research reports.

题目：回应非正式科学教育中的性别差距在Kevin Crowley的指导下，匹兹堡大学学习研究与发展中心将调查非正式学习环境中父母解释中的性别偏见。这个名为“应对非正式科学教育中的性别差距”的项目将以先前在儿童博物馆进行的研究为基础，该研究记录和分析了338个有8岁及以下儿童的家庭在16个不同互动展览中的对话。他们发现，父母在与男孩互动时使用解释的可能性几乎是与女孩互动时的三倍。在这个项目中，他们将进行额外的研究，以在这些父母的解释中分离出与性别偏见相关的原因和结果，然后他们将开发、评估和传播一系列低成本的方法来修改科学展览，以支持父母对女孩和男孩的解释。后者将采取解释工具箱（XBox）的形式，这将是一套资源，帮助博物馆构建和评估他们自己的修改，以支持无偏见的家长解释，特别注意包括对年轻女孩的解释，除了关于操纵展品以及关于展品产生的视觉，听觉和触觉信息的常规对话。研究结果和工具箱将通过万维网和已出版的研究报告广泛传播。