IS SCIENCE ME? Tracing the Roots of Girls' Decisions to Pursue Science

科学是我吗？

• 批准号: 0231878
• 负责人: Pamela Aschbacher
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: California Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-04-01 至 2008-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0231878&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SCIENCE; ME; Tracing; Roots; Girls

This 3-year longitudinal project studies how diverse girls' attitudes, perceptions, and experiences in grades 7-12 influence both subtle and explicit choices leading towards or away from a college major in science. Participants come from 4 urban and suburban districts whose students represent a range of economic background and ethnicities. The design would follow two cohorts of students, one from 7th to 10th grade and one from 10th grade into the first year of college. The middle school cohort allows a broad look at student experiences before they formally enter the pipeline, while the high school cohort focuses on those students who are most likely to pursue science and engineering careers. The study includes an annual large-scale survey of the full cohort and an annual in-depth interview with a continuing subset of students. Contextual interviews with selected parents, science teachers, guidance counselors, and others are also included. Both quantitative and qualitative analysis techniques are used.This project seeks to explore the linkage between school and extracurricular experiences of female students to their decision to pursue a science college major. These variables have been found to be related to the gender gap in achievement and attitudes about science, but a formal linkage between them and girls' decision to pursue a science major has not been established. This research has the potential to identify factors that might facilitate the recruitment of females in science majors.

这个为期3年的纵向项目研究了7-12年级不同女孩的态度，看法和经历如何影响微妙和明确的选择，导致或远离大学科学专业。 参与者来自4个城市和郊区，他们的学生代表了一系列的经济背景和种族。该设计将遵循两组学生，一组从7年级到10年级，另一组从10年级到大学一年级。中学队列允许在正式进入管道之前广泛查看学生的经历，而高中队列则专注于那些最有可能追求科学和工程职业的学生。该研究包括对整个队列的年度大规模调查和对持续的学生子集的年度深入访谈。与选定的家长，科学教师，指导顾问和其他人的上下文采访也包括在内。该项目采用定量和定性分析技术，旨在探讨女生的学校和课外经历与她们选择理科专业的决定之间的联系。这些变量被发现与成绩和对科学的态度方面的性别差距有关，但它们与女孩决定攻读科学专业之间的正式联系尚未建立。这项研究有可能确定可能促进理科专业女性招聘的因素。