GSE/RES: Club to School (C2S): Rethinking the SMT Pipeline

智力优势：中学女生是如何从事科学的，特别是当她们不断发展的"自我意识"似乎与成为一名优秀的理科学生或科学家的传统形象不一致时？本调查的目的是更好地了解机制，城市中学女生作者可能的自我在科学，这对他们的兴趣和参与科学，数学和技术（SMT）管道有什么影响。该项目的目标是：1。跟踪四个城市的一组女孩在她们的中学时期，记录她们在科学中创造可能自我的机制，她们在不同的数字世界中的身份形成（以及随之而来的资源和地位）如何支持她们这样做，以及这对她们在科学课和SMT管道中的兴趣和参与有什么影响。开发一个模型，说明女孩如何以及为什么在不同的数字世界中招募身份，以及女孩如何寻求利用这些身份来支持对科学的参与和兴趣。为了创建一套案例，沿着指导设计原则，重点是女孩的身份发展和SMT管道的参与，可用作教师学习和程序设计的工具。利用一个全国有效的调查工具，重点是身份发展和管道参与，将在三年内收集数据，以确定身份发展和管道参与的模式。该项目还包括在三年内对其中两个地点的40名女孩进行人种学纵向个案研究。案例研究数据将有助于深入分析女孩在校外形象世界和学校科学形象世界中的参与和经历，以揭示与她们相关的突出身份，以及她们如何在形象世界中选择和整合身份，以增进她们对科学的兴趣和表现。更广泛的影响：这个项目产生了一个理论为基础的，由专业驱动的模型之间的关系，身份发展和参与SMT管道低收入城市女孩从种族不同的背景。通过创建一套案例，沿着指导设计原则，重点是女孩的身份发展和SMT管道的参与，项目小组将与教师和方案组织者合作，调整方案设计和教学实践，以最好地支持女孩。

Intellectual Merit: How do middle school girls become engaged in science, especially when their developing "sense of self" can seem to be at odds with traditional images of what it means to be a good science student or a scientist? The purpose of this investigation is to better understand the mechanisms by which urban middle school girls author possible selves in science, and what impact this has on their interest and participation in the science, mathematics and technology (SMT) pipeline. The objectives of the project are:1. To follow a cohort of girls in four cities over their middle school years to document the mechanisms by which they author possible selves in science, how their identity formation (and their attendant resources and positions) in different figured worlds support them in doing so, and what impact this has on their interest and participation in science class and the SMT pipeline.2. To develop a model for how and why girls recruit identities across different figured worlds and how girls seek to leverage them in support of participation and interest in science.3. To create a set of cases along with guiding design principles focused on girls' identity development and SMT pipeline participation that can be used as tools for teacher learning and program design.The research follows 400 girls in four US cities over three years. Utilizing a nationally validated survey instrument focused on identity development and pipeline participation, data will be gathered over the three years to ascertain patterns in identity development and pipeline participation. The project also includes ethnographic longitudinal case studies of 40 girls in two of the sites over three years. Case study data will allow for an in depth analysis into girls' participation and experiences in out-of-school figured worlds and the figured world of school science, to uncover the salient identities pertinent to them, and how they select and coalesce identities across figured worlds to further their interest and performance in science. Broader Impacts: This project yields a theoretically-based, empirically-driven model for the relationship between identity development and participation in the SMT pipeline for low-income urban girls from racially diverse backgrounds. By creating a set of cases along with guiding design principles focused on girls' identity development and SMT pipeline participation, the project team will work with teachers and program organizers to tailor program design and instructional practice to best support girls.