GSE/DIF Crafting Successful Living-Learning Programs for Women in STEM: Building Blocks for the Future

智力优势：该项目的主要目标是通过将国家生活学习计划研究（NSLLP） （HRD-GSE 0521762）的现成实施结果和建议提供给面向STEM领域女性的生活学习（L/L）计划的负责人，从而促进本科女性在STEM领域的成功。具体而言，要公布的调查结果和建议侧重于L/L环境和实践，这些环境和实践有助于本科女性在STEM领域成功过渡到大学；学术、专业、全面自信；感知智力增长；归属感；STEM专业的保留；以及大学毕业后的教育和职业规划。这项推广工作有两个组成部分：a)为STEM领域的女性开发一份以互动实践为导向的手册，详细介绍了成功的L/L编程，并通过女性专用格式（例如WIMSE项目）或男女同校的STEM格式分发给直接迎合STEM专业女性的L/L项目主管；b)与2009年生活学习项目会议一起为50名L/L项目主管举办研讨会。通过以实践为导向的手册和附带的研讨会，该项目旨在为L/L教职员工提供基于NSLLP研究结果的建议，以创建、实施和持续改进L/L实践。通过相互介绍研讨会参与者，这种传播努力还将通过创建L/L STEM盟友中的女性网络，留下质量改进的遗产。更广泛的影响：拟议的手册和研讨会宣传NSLLP的研究结果，有能力改变STEM领域女性的本科教育经历。因此，这个传播项目代表了严谨研究成果的传播与高影响力、高成本效益的干预和推广的最佳结合，以提高STEM领域女性的性别平等。重要的是，以实践为导向的手册和研讨会的两个项目有可能吸引广泛的受众——也许是WISE L/L董事的整个群体——并创建一个专业人士网络，其遗产将是改善STEM女性的本科经历。

Intellectual Merit: The primary goal of this project is to promote the success of undergraduate women in STEM by making available ready-to-implement findings and recommendations from The National Study of Living Learning Programs (NSLLP) (HRD-GSE 0521762) to directors of living-learning (L/L) programs catering to women in STEM fields. Specifically, the findings and recommendations to be publicized focus on the L/L environments and practices that facilitate the success of undergraduate women in STEM in relation to their transition to college; academic, professional, and overall self-confidence; perceived intellectual growth; sense of belonging; retention in STEM majors; and educational and career plans after college graduation. This diffusion effort has two components: a) the development of an interactive practice-oriented manual detailing successful L/L programming for women in STEM, distributed to directors of L/L programs that cater directly to women in STEM majors either through a women-only format (e.g., WIMSE programs) or through a co-educational STEM-based format, and b) a workshop for 50 L/L program directors taking place in conjunction with the 2009 Living-Learning Programs Conference. Through the practice-oriented manual and accompanying workshop, the project aims to provide L/L faculty and staff with recommendations based on findings from the NSLLP for creating, implementing, and continuously improving L/L practice. By introducing the workshop participants to one another, this diffusion effort will also leave a legacy of quality improvement by creating a network of women in STEM allies in L/L. Broader Impacts: The proposed manual and workshop publicizing the findings of the NSLLP have the power to transform the undergraduate educational experience of women in STEM. This diffusion project thus represents the optimal marriage of the communication of rigorous research results with a high-impact, cost-efficient intervention and outreach for increasing gender equity for women in STEM. Importantly, the twin projects of the practice-oriented manual and workshop have the potential to reach a broad audience--perhaps the entire population of WISE L/L directors--and create a network of professionals whose legacy will be the improvement of the undergraduate experience for women in STEM.