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: 1261189
• 负责人: Monica Bruning
• 金额: $ 12.13万
• 依托单位: Des Moines Area Community College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-08-06 至 2013-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1261189&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）大学的具体教育途径之间的关系，一组学术人才，主要是少数民族年轻女性，她们参加了3年的高中课程，旨在激发和维持她们对工程的兴趣。2006-2009年，在3个州（科罗拉多州、爱荷华州和俄亥俄州）的10所公立学校实施了高中方案“女性新兵探索工程”（免费）。免费开始与131大多是城市，拉丁裔，黑人，美洲原住民和亚裔美国女孩谁是在数学和科学强的学生。这项拟议的研究将跟踪所有在高中和高中后第一年留在FREE的年轻女性（n=81）。在这个群体中，22%的人在攻读工程专业，35%的人在攻读其他STEM专业，33%的人在攻读非STEM专业，10%的人尚未决定。皮埃尔·布迪厄的“社会资本”框架将被用来分析参与者为追求大学目标而带来的和在大学期间使用的资本，包括在FREE中获得的资本。“教育途径”的概念将被用来研究动态的相互作用的制度结构，追求大学学位，在大学的支持来源，在大学和个人的决定和选择。数据将包括来自免费项目的关于年轻女性的高中背景、经历和生活的信息（观察;访谈;人口统计、自我效能和社交网络调查;黑莓PIN、信使和电子邮件;网站和Facebook帖子）。将通过Facebook帖子、采访和调查收集有关女性大学经历的可比新数据。定性数据将通过创建先验类别（基于研究问题）和原位（从数据中出现）类别的编码方案进行分析，并使用ATLAS.ti软件程序进行管理。调查数据将通过描述性统计进行分析，如果调查问题来自全国性调查，则这些数据将用于进行全国性比较。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：阐明资本形式与工程和其他STEM领域职业选择之间的联系;促进政策和方案，以增加在干领域的多样性;涉及非特权学生在研究有关他们的干的情况和选择;准备研究生在教育，妇女研究和干领域的教育相关问题的研究，特别是那些涉及代表性不足的人口;并通过各种来源广泛传播成果，如同行评审期刊、面向STEM的协会、免费网站、面向大学的网站和杂志、地方和国家媒体以及演讲活动。