GSE/DIS: Creating a Community of Practice on Science, Gender and Afterschool

牵头机构教育公平概念公司（EEC）与教育发展学院（AED）青年发展和政策研究中心以及美国科学促进会（AAAS）合作，提议创建一个独特的基于网络的科学、性别和课后实践社区（SGA）。目标是：(1)进一步研究STEM、性别和课后领域；(2)帮助课后项目从业者获取高质量的STEM内容，以便他们将其纳入现有的项目中；(3)促进研究人员、政策制定者和实践者之间的联系。SGA实践社区将继续并扩展在2002年9月的一次会议上开始的对话，该会议产生了一项研究行动议程。参与者将能够通过在线视频和网络广播论坛、线程讨论、公告板和列表服务进行交流，并传播旨在满足女孩兴趣的科学课程。直接受众将是参加SGA会议和/或为研究行动议程的制定做出贡献的50名专家组成的核心领导小组，其他人将通过广泛的外展和营销战略来招募。参与者将通过AED中心开发和管理的网站（www.afterschool.org）的门户网站访问该网站。该网站每月访问量达1.4万次，点击量超过30万次。该网站将在2005年2月的美国科学促进会年会上推出一个网络广播论坛；这个发射日期很关键，因为它将与《不让一个孩子掉队》规定的新的科学成就条款相吻合，该条款定于同年生效。智力优势：SGA实践社区是与非正式STEM教育有关的课后项目领导者的独特和创新资源。这些项目分散在全国各地，但总的来说代表了需要传播和交流的重要研究、项目评估、课程、最佳实践和出版物。更广泛的影响：SGA实践社区的总体目标是扩大服务不足的女孩在科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）领域的参与。其目标是将一个庞大的、地理分布的研究人员、实践者和决策者发展成一个实践社区。

Educational Equity Concepts, Inc. (EEC), lead agency, in collaboration with the Center for Youth Development and Policy Research at the Academy for Educational Development (AED) and in partnership with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), proposes to create a unique web-based community of practice on science, gender and after-school (SGA). Objectives are to: (1) further research in the STEM, gender, and after-school fields; (2) aid after-school program practitioners in accessing high quality STEM content that they can incorporate into their existing programs; and (3) foster connections between researchers, policymakers and practitioners.The SGA Community of Practice will continue and extend the dialogue that began at a conference in September 2002 which resulted in a Research-Action Agenda. Participants will be able to communicate through online video and web-cast forums, threaded discussions, bulletin boards, and listservs, and disseminate science curriculum designed to address girls' interests. While the immediate audience will be the core leadership group of 50 experts who participated in the SGA Conference and/or contributed to the development of the Research-Action Agenda, others will be recruited through extensive outreach and marketing strategies.Participants will access the site through a portal in the website (www.afterschool.org) developed and managed by the AED Center. The site receives 14,000 visits and over 300,000 hits monthly. The site will be launched with a webcast forum at the AAAS Annual Conference in February 2005; this launch date is critical in that it will coincide with the new science achievement provisions mandated by No Child Left Behind, slated to go into effect the same year. Intellectual Merit: The SGA Community of Practice is a unique and innovative resource for leaders of after-school programs concerned with informal STEM education. The programs are scattered across the country but in the aggregate represent significant research, program evaluations, curricula, best practices and publications in need of dissemination and exchange.Broader Impacts: The overall goal of the SGA Community of Practice is to broaden the participation of underserved girls in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The goal is to develop a large and geographically distributed of researchers, practitioners and policymakers into a community of practice.