Collaborative Research: GSE/RES: Diverse Young Women Traveling Pathways to STEM

合作研究：GSE/RES：多元化年轻女性迈向 STEM 之路

• 批准号: 1036784
• 负责人: Monica Bruning
• 金额: $ 17.94万
• 依托单位: Iowa State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-10-01 至 2012-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1036784&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; GSE; RES; Diverse

Intellectual Merit: The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between (1) access to and use of STEM-related social, cultural, and economic "capital" (or resources) and (2) specific educational pathways in college for a group of academically talented, mostly minority young women who participated for 3 years in a high school program intended to spark and sustain their interest in engineering. The high school program, Female Recruits Explore Engineering (FREE), was implemented in 10 public schools in 3 states (CO, IA, and OH), from 2006-2009. FREE began with 131 mostly urban, Latina, Black, Native American and Asian American girls who were strong students in math and science. The proposed study will follow all the young women who stayed in FREE during high school and their first post-high school year (n=81). In this group, 22% are pursuing engineering majors, 35% are in other STEM majors, 33% are pursuing non-STEM majors, and 10% are undecided. Pierre Bourdieu's "social capital" framework will be employed to analyze the capital the participants brought with them and will have used in college, including that gained in FREE, to pursue their college goals. The concept of "educational pathways" will be used to examine the dynamic interplay between institutional structures for pursuing college degrees, sources of support in college, and individual decisions and choices made in college. Data will include information about the young women's high school backgrounds, experiences and lives (observation; interviews; demographic, self-efficacy and social network surveys; Blackberry PIN, Messenger and email messages; website and Facebook postings) from the FREE project. Comparable new data will be collected about the women's college experiences through Facebook postings, interviews and surveys. The qualitative data will be analyzed by creating a coding scheme of a priori categories (based on the research questions) and in situ (emerging from the data) categories and managed with the ATLAS.ti software program. Survey data will be analyzed with descriptive statistics, and where survey questions have been drawn from national surveys, those data will be used to make national comparisons.Broader Impacts: This research seeks to impact the broader education community and society as a whole by: illuminating the connections between forms of capital and choice for or against careers in engineering and other STEM fields; contributing to policies and programs for increasing diversity in STEM fields; involving non-privileged students in research related to their STEM circumstances and options; preparing graduate students in Education, Women's Studies, and STEM fields for research on education-related issues, particularly those involving under-represented populations; and widely disseminating results through diverse sources, such as peer-reviewed journals, STEM-oriented associations, the FREE website, college-oriented websites and magazines, local and national press, and speaking engagements.

智力优势：本研究的目的是研究(1)获得和使用stem相关的社会、文化和经济“资本”（或资源）和(2)一群有学术天赋的年轻女性（主要是少数族裔）在大学的特定教育途径之间的关系，这些女性参加了为期3年的高中课程，旨在激发和维持她们对工程的兴趣。高中项目“女性新兵探索工程”（FREE）从2006年至2009年在3个州（科罗拉多州、印第安纳州和俄亥俄州）的10所公立学校实施。FREE开始招收了131名女孩，其中大部分是城市女孩、拉丁裔、黑人、印第安人和亚裔美国人，她们在数学和科学方面都很优秀。该研究将跟踪所有在FREE高中和高中毕业后第一年的年轻女性（n=81）。在这个群体中，22%的人选择工程专业，35%的人选择其他STEM专业，33%的人选择非STEM专业，10%的人尚未决定。皮埃尔·布迪厄（Pierre Bourdieu）的“社会资本”框架将被用来分析参与者带来的资本和他们将在大学中使用的资本，包括在FREE中获得的资本，以追求他们的大学目标。“教育途径”的概念将用于研究追求大学学位的制度结构、大学支持来源和个人在大学做出的决定和选择之间的动态相互作用。数据将包括来自免费项目的年轻女性的高中背景、经历和生活信息（观察、访谈、人口统计、自我效能和社交网络调查、黑莓密码、Messenger和电子邮件信息、网站和Facebook帖子）。将通过Facebook帖子、访谈和调查收集有关这些女性大学经历的可比新数据。定性数据将通过建立先验分类（根据研究问题）和就地分类（从数据中产生）的编码方案进行分析，并由ATLAS管理。Ti软件程序。将用描述性统计分析调查数据，如果调查问题来自国家调查，这些数据将用于进行国家比较。更广泛的影响：本研究旨在通过以下方式影响更广泛的教育界和整个社会：阐明资本形式与选择工程和其他STEM领域的职业之间的联系；为提高STEM领域多样性的政策和项目做出贡献；让非特权学生参与与其STEM环境和选择相关的研究；为教育、妇女研究和STEM领域的研究生做好准备，以研究与教育相关的问题，特别是那些涉及代表性不足的人群的问题；并通过各种渠道广泛传播结果，如同行评议期刊、stem协会、免费网站、大学网站和杂志、地方和国家媒体以及演讲活动。