Women with Disabilities in STEM Education Research Agenda Development Project (WWDSE)

智力优势：美国心理学协会（阿帕）正在开展一项努力，为妇女中学后STEM教育中与残疾有关的差异知识库做出贡献。这包括影响学生兴趣，学习成绩，STEM学位课程保留，STEM学位完成和职业选择的教育，社会和职前经历。“STEM教育中的残疾妇女研究议程发展项目”（WWDSE）将制定一个研究议程，培养一个关于STEM教育中残疾妇女的新兴学术工作机构，这将导致扩大残疾妇女在STEM教育所有领域的参与和成就。阿帕正在开展以下活动：1）对具有性别和残疾领域专门知识的NSF和教育部受赠者进行研讨会前调查，2）召开关于STEM教育中残疾妇女面临的支持和障碍的研讨会。更广泛的影响：虽然心理学中的一些实证文献解决了这个问题的具体方面，但目前没有一条研究线专门确定或告知我们对STEM中残疾妇女积极教育成果的支持和障碍的理解。这一知识上的重大差距影响了最大限度地利用残疾妇女所代表的人力资本的努力，以实现到2020年增加STEM专业人员的国家目标。阿帕将传播由此产生的研究议程，以鼓励初级和更有经验的研究人员设计研究来回答所提出的问题。此外，研究议程将作为一个潜在的指南，供资者如何引导资源，以支持这项研究，并开始提供教育工作者和管理人员与干预措施的种子，以更好地支持妇女的STEM教育残疾人。所有交付品都将向残疾人提供。

Intellectual Merit: The American Psychological Association (APA) is launching an effort to contribute to the knowledge base on disabilities related differences in postsecondary STEM education for women. This includes the educational, social, and pre-professional experiences that influence student interest, academic performance, retention in STEM degree programs, STEM degree completion, and career choices. The "Women with Disabilities in STEM Education Research Agenda Development Project" (WWDSE) will create a research agenda that cultivates an emerging body of scholarly work on women with disabilities in STEM education that will lead to broadening the participation and achievement of women with disabilities in all fields of STEM education. APA is undertaking the following activities: 1) conducting a pre-workshop survey of NSF and Department of Education grantees with expertise in the areas of gender and disability, and 2) convening a workshop on supports and barriers facing women with disabilities in STEM education. Broader Impacts: Although several empirical literatures within psychology address specific aspects of the issue, currently no one line of research specifically identifies or informs our understanding of the supports and barriers to positive educational outcomes for women with disabilities in STEM. This critical gap in knowledge effects efforts to maximize the human capital represented by women with disabilities in meeting national goals of increasing STEM professionals by 2020. APA will disseminate the resulting research agenda to encourage both junior and more seasoned investigators to design studies to answer the questions raised. In addition, the research agenda will serve as a potential guide to funders on ways to direct resources to support this research and begin to provide educators and administrators with the seeds of interventions to better support women with disabilities in STEM education. All deliverables will be made accessible to those with disabilities.