(EAGER) Transforming STEM For Women and Girls: Reworking Stereotypes & Bias

(EAGER) 为女性和女孩改变 STEM：重塑刻板印象

• 批准号: 1137483
• 负责人: Mary Flanagan
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: Dartmouth College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-01 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1137483&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Transforming; STEM; Women; Girls

Intellectual Merit: Dartmouth College proposes an exploratory project meant to offer testable proof of concept activities that enact some practical approaches to create an environment of encouragement for girls in STEM through games. The activities will take into account the context of families, schools, communities, and peer groups. The researchers hypothesize that well-designed game activities may disrupt negative stereotypes about women's capabilities in STEM fields. Through fostering and supporting girls' confidence in their abilities in STEM, they may be more motivated to become interested in STEM fields. Using the theoretical frameworks of Critical Play, where the design process mirrors the values to be integrated into the design of the artifact, and informed by Design-Based Research, the project team will address the research questions by iterating and testing novel approaches to these issues. The proposed project explores, prototypes, iterates, and assesses interactive experiences designed to connect research findings in gender and STEM areas to girls in their own contexts. The research team proposes to prototype 10 games with the goal to finalize 4 for production. No one has yet used a game platform to explore mitigating bias and stereotypes, and this is a new approach to challenging social norms that have been shown to decrease girls' interest in STEM. Broader Impact: A recently released AAUW report points to recent research findings that identify the social and environmental factors in the underrepresentation of women in STEM areas. Much research has pointed to the specific ways in which girls might further succeed in STEM areas if particular social and cultural aspects were to improve. Small game activities are a powerful vehicle for a much broader discussion, social interaction, and collaboration, and offer a ripe platform for STEM exploration. Discovering a set of design principles that foster change with the social and environmental factors involved in the perception of STEM fields promises an extraordinary proof-of concept contribution to the field. The successful completion of this research has great potential to show proof of concept in the disruption of gender stereotypes using games. Some of these barriers might be changed through well-designed, collaborative game activities that can engage and energize the issues.

智力优势：达特茅斯学院提出了一个探索性项目，旨在提供可测试的概念验证活动，制定一些实用的方法，通过游戏为STEM中的女孩创造一个鼓励的环境。这些活动将考虑到家庭、学校、社区和同龄群体的情况。研究人员假设，精心设计的游戏活动可能会打破对女性在STEM领域能力的负面刻板印象。通过培养和支持女孩对自己在STEM领域的能力的信心，她们可能会更有动力对STEM领域产生兴趣。 使用关键发挥的理论框架，其中设计过程反映了要集成到工件设计中的价值观，并通过基于设计的研究，项目团队将通过迭代和测试这些问题的新方法来解决研究问题。拟议的项目探索，原型，迭代和评估旨在将性别和STEM领域的研究成果与女孩在自己的环境中联系起来的互动体验。研究团队建议制作10款游戏的原型，目标是最终确定4款用于生产。 还没有人使用游戏平台来探索减轻偏见和刻板印象，这是一种挑战社会规范的新方法，这些规范已被证明会降低女孩对STEM的兴趣。更广泛的影响：最近发布的AAUW报告指出，最近的研究结果确定了STEM领域女性代表性不足的社会和环境因素。许多研究指出，如果特定的社会和文化方面得到改善，女孩可能会在STEM领域取得进一步成功。 小游戏活动是更广泛的讨论、社交互动和协作的强大工具，并为STEM探索提供了一个成熟的平台。发现一套设计原则，促进与STEM领域的感知所涉及的社会和环境因素的变化，承诺对该领域做出非凡的概念证明贡献。这项研究的成功完成具有很大的潜力，可以证明使用游戏破坏性别陈规定型观念的概念。 其中一些障碍可能会通过精心设计的合作游戏活动来改变，这些活动可以参与并激发这些问题。