CareerBound: Internet-Delivered Resilience Training to Increase the Persistence of Women Ph.D. Students in STEM Fields

CareerBound：通过互联网提供的韧性培训，以提高女性博士的​​毅力。

• 批准号: 0634519
• 负责人: Bianca Bernstein
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-10-01 至 2011-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0634519&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CareerBound; Internet; Delivered; Resilience; Training

Intellectual MeritThe study is addressing the question of whether deliberate resilience training "delivered via the Internet" can strengthen women doctoral students' persistence in physical sciences, engineering and mathematics, fields where women display high rates of attrition even as their numbers in doctoral programs have continued to rise. An internet-based, multimedia-enhanced program is being developed and evaluated for its effectiveness in reducing attrition and strengthening career aspirations and personal skills of female doctoral students in selected fields at multiple universities. Grounded in the literatures of career development, self-efficacy, and empirically supported interventions and instructional tools, the set of personal and psychosocial skills are addressed as "resilience skills" and the psycho-educational strategy to strengthen these skills as "resilience training."The courseware is designed to inoculate participants against documented interpersonal, climate, and role challenges women face in male-dominated STEM fields. It uses interactive critical incident technology to create an audio-visual library of narratives by prominent senior women scientists and engineers who have handled such situations successfully. It provides training in specific coping skills, including decision-making, problem solving, cognitive restructuring, conflict management, negotiation, and communication.Based on comparisons both with control conditions and estimated persistence baselines by discipline, the training will be evaluated on measures of personal competence such as coping self-efficacy and interpersonal skills, reports of intentions to achieve the doctorate and enter STEM careers, and records of academic persistence and degree completion. An expert advisory council drawn from the national science, engineering, and educational research communities is augmenting the expertise of the PIs.Broader ImpactsThis project is providing a potential new tool for broadening participation among women seriously under-represented in STEM. It has the potential to reach all of the thousands of women who are in STEM doctoral programs across the nation. Evidence of effectiveness will inform practice for IGERTS and other doctoral reform initiatives. More broadly research results will be disseminated through professional and disciplinary associations such as the ASEE, AWIS, WEPAN, SWE, American Psychological Association, American Psychological Society, American Educational Research Association, and Council of Graduate Schools, and through National Academy networks and those associated with IGERT, PFF, and CID, and through publications in appropriate journals such as Journal of Engineering Education, Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, the Psychology of Women Quarterly, and the Journal of Higher Education. This web-based intervention is easily and inexpensively scalable, and capable of adaptation.

这项研究旨在解决这样一个问题：“通过互联网提供”的刻意恢复力训练是否能增强女博士生在物理科学、工程和数学领域的坚持力。在这些领域，尽管攻读博士学位的女性人数持续上升，但她们的流失率却很高。正在开发一个基于互联网的多媒体增强计划，并评估其在减少人员流失和加强多所大学选定领域女博士生的职业抱负和个人技能方面的有效性。基于职业发展、自我效能和经验支持的干预和教学工具的文献，个人和社会心理技能被称为“弹性技能”，而加强这些技能的心理教育策略被称为“弹性训练”。该课件旨在让参与者了解女性在男性主导的STEM领域面临的人际关系、气候和角色挑战。它使用交互式关键事件技术创建了一个由成功处理此类情况的杰出高级女科学家和工程师讲述的视听图书馆。它提供具体应对技能的培训，包括决策、解决问题、认知重组、冲突管理、谈判和沟通。在与对照条件和按学科估计的坚持基线进行比较的基础上，培训将根据个人能力指标进行评估，如应对自我效能和人际交往能力，获得博士学位和进入STEM职业的意图报告，以及学术坚持和学位完成记录。一个由国家科学、工程和教育研究界人士组成的专家咨询委员会正在加强私人顾问的专业知识。更广泛的影响该项目提供了一个潜在的新工具，以扩大在STEM中严重代表性不足的妇女的参与。它有可能覆盖全国数千名攻读STEM博士课程的女性。有效性的证据将为IGERTS和其他博士改革倡议的实践提供信息。更广泛的研究成果将通过专业和学科协会，如ASEE、AWIS、WEPAN、SWE、美国心理学协会、美国心理学会、美国教育研究协会和研究生院理事会，以及通过国家科学院网络和与IGERT、PFF和CID有关的网络，以及通过在适当的期刊上发表的出版物，如《工程教育杂志》，传播。《科学与工程领域的女性和少数族裔杂志》、《女性心理学季刊》和《高等教育杂志》。这种基于网络的干预措施易于扩展，成本低廉，并且能够适应。