GSE/DIS: WISSC via Web: A Dissemination Project Making GSE Research Useable for Practitioners Supporting Women in STEM Studies and Careers

该项目将应用研究发现，为学校、大学和家庭开发一种新型的、经济的、可快速扩展的新型网络工具，鼓励年轻女性1）坚持学习科学、数学和工程学，2）坚持在这些领域建立职业生涯的雄心。该项目将通过与CRESMET-亚利桑那州立大学科学、数学、工程和技术教育研究中心-赞助的活动联合，传播研究成果和使其可供从业人员使用的工具。以前开发的分类法-妇女参与科学、技术、工程和数学研究和职业分类法-将用作网络工具的基础。该工具将包含从障碍和支持分类中列出的问题到书面、音频和视频格式信息的链接，这些信息将说明背景，加强对每个问题的理解，并为教育工作者、父母和家庭、同龄人以及女孩和妇女本身提供广泛的干预信息。WISSC网络工具将作为目前设在CRESMET的虚拟咨询中心的一部分开发，并分发给亚利桑那州和全国的所有教育工作者。智力价值-拟议的网络工具的开发将促进广泛传播国家科学基金会赞助的研究结果的主要发现，重点是年轻妇女和STEM职业。 它将教育专业人员，家长和女孩，让她们了解从事STEM职业的女孩和妇女所面临的一些挑战，并组织这些信息，以便通过提供从信息到干预措施的直接联系，使其易于访问和使用。网络工具将提供一个有用的桥梁从业人员和研究文献，将提高教育工作者的能力，家长和年轻妇女访问和利用信息和干预措施的研究。更广泛的影响-通过亚利桑那州立大学现有的网络，60,000多名教师，辅导员和学校领导在亚利桑那州将达到。该中心与CRESMET和全国合作者网络结盟，通过目前正在运作的MSP和TPC资助的项目，将使WISSC工具，其基础分类学以及通过研究和评估其对年轻女性的影响而创造的新知识在全国范围内传播。

This project will apply research discoveries by launching the development of a first-of-its-kind, economical, and rapidly scaleable new web-based tool for schools, universities, and families to use in encouraging young women to 1) persevere in studying science, mathematics, and engineering, and 2) hold fast in their ambition to build careers in these fields. The project will disseminate both research and the tool that makes it useable for practitioners by allying with activities sponsored by CRESMET--Arizona State University's Center for Research on Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology. A previously developed taxonomy--Women in STEM Studies and Careers (WISSC) Taxonomy--will be used as a basis for the web tool. The tool will contain links from the issues listed in the taxonomy of barriers and supports, to information in written, audio, and video formats that will illustrate context, enhance the understanding of each issue, and provide extensive intervention information for educators, parents and family, peers, and girls and women themselves. The WISSC web tool will be developed as a part of the Virtual Counseling Center now housed in CRESMET and disseminated to all educators in Arizona as well as nationwide.Intellectual merit-- The development of the proposed web tool will facilitate broad dissemination of major findings from the results of NSF-sponsored research focusing on young women and STEM careers. It will educate professionals, parents, and girls on some of the challenges facing girls and women pursuing STEM careers, and organize this information so that it can be easily accessed and used by providing direct connections from information to interventions. The web tool will provide a useful bridge between practitioners and the research literature that will enhance the abilities of educators, parents and young women to access and make use of information and interventions informed by research.Broader impacts-- Through existing networks at ASU, 60,000+ teachers, counselors, and school leaders in the state of Arizona will be reached. Allying with CRESMET and the national network of collaborators the center leverages through currently operating MSP and TPC funded projects will enable the national dissemination of the WISSC tool, its foundational taxonomy, and the new knowledge created by researching and evaluating its impact on young women and those who advise and mentor them.