PGE: PLN Girls' Career-Relevant Interests in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology: Examining Outcome Expectations, Perceived Barriers, and Perceived Supports

PGE：PLN 女孩在科学、数学、工程和技术方面的职业相关兴趣：检查结果期望、感知到的障碍和感知到的支持

• 批准号: 0114516
• 负责人: Marie Shoffner
• 金额: $ 2.97万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina Greensboro
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-08-01 至 2002-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0114516&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PGE; PLN; Girls; Career; Relevant

The purpose of this research is to increase our understanding of the early careerdevelopment of girls as they form opinions, develop belief structures, and make decisions about career options in science, mathematics, engineering, and/or technology careers by expanding our theoretical framework and empirical base to include a moredirect focus on the influence of outcome expectations, perceived barriers, and perceived support.The need to conduct inquiry into the role of outcome beliefs in the development, stability, and change in career interests, and to examine contextual factors that impact the eventual entry of young girls and women into the pipeline toward pursuing scientific and technical careers provides the framework for the research.This planning grant involves the recruitment and commitment of several collaborating researchers, research institutions, and school systems. Collaborative researchers will provide the expertise across the disciplines of counseling, educational psychology , and science. Collaboration across institutions will provide the opportunity for multiple sites to bring existing resources to bear on the problem and allow for research across widely varying demographics and locations. Multiple school systems will contribute to the opportunity to generalize to populations of rural, suburban, and urban youth, as well as varying socioeconomic groups.The planning year will include the identification of a sufficiently large and diverse sample of girls, and the design and pilot testing of both qualitative and quantitative instrumentation. This study will use a multimethod approach to examine the outcome expectations and perceived barriers and supports ofgirls, ages 10-14, the impact of these expectations on career-related interests, and, if funded through a future grant,the development of these interestS and outcome expectations over time. Focus groupswill be used to identify factors to be used in the development of items for several Q-sorts and to be incorporated into assessment tools. Quantitative instruments thatwill measure the constructs of interest will be designed, when necessary , revisedwhen appropriate, and then pilot tested with middle school youth.

本研究的目的是通过扩展我们的理论框架和经验基础，包括对结果期望，感知障碍，和感知的支持。需要进行调查的作用，结果信念的发展，稳定性，并改变职业利益，并审查影响年轻女孩和妇女最终进入追求科学和技术职业的渠道的背景因素，这项规划补助金涉及招募和承诺几个合作研究人员，研究机构和学校系统。合作研究人员将提供咨询，教育心理学和科学学科的专业知识。跨机构的合作将为多个地点提供机会，使现有资源能够对问题产生影响，并允许在广泛不同的人口和地点进行研究。多种学校系统将有助于有机会推广到农村、郊区和城市青年人口以及不同的社会经济群体，规划年将包括确定足够大和多样化的女孩样本，以及设计和试点测试定性和定量工具。本研究将采用多方法的方法来检查结果的期望和感知的障碍和支持的女孩，年龄10-14，这些期望的影响，职业相关的利益，以及，如果通过未来的赠款资助，这些interestS的发展和结果的期望随着时间的推移。焦点小组将被用来确定用于开发几个Q类项目的因素，并被纳入评估工具。必要时，将设计测量兴趣结构的定量工具，适当时进行修订，然后在中学生中进行试点测试。