Science of Broadening Participation: Promoting the Recruitment of Girls into Science, Technology, and Engineering

该奖项支持一项研究项目，该项目研究自1965年以来如何改进对更广泛的年轻人的科学和技术教育，成为目前国家的优先事项。这项研究将详细解释这种对多样性的承诺是如何、何时以及为什么发展起来的，永久地重塑了我们现代的科学、工程、教育和育儿文化。主要成果包括一本学术书籍，《招聘工程师简和天体物理学家艾米：美国STEM女孩倡导者，1965-现在》，以及学术论文、公开演讲、教科书和博物馆展览。分析主要植根于历史，但借鉴并告知我们对当今科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)领域的扩展的理解。虽然得到支持的项目侧重于女童运动的演变，但将要开发的账户将为促进其他任职人数不足的群体获得教育的平行努力提供见解，为正在进行的关于STEM多样性的讨论增加历史层面。进行这项研究的研究人员扩展了在科技史、科学政策研究和美国现代史的广泛背景下的研究经验。她的研究借鉴了来自个人和组织的广泛的报告、信件、行政记录和其他文件，如国家科学基金会、国家工程院、美国大学妇女协会和女童子军。除了评估这些丰富的数据外，这项倡议还通过开展中心案例研究和对向女孩开放STEM运动中的关键人物进行数十次独特的口述历史访谈，探索了新的领域。研究人员将在多个图书馆和档案馆进行口述历史采访和档案研究。她将向学术和普通观众发表演讲，在博物馆举办关于STEAM(A代表艺术)和多样性的展览，并开发K-12课程包和参展材料。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award supports a research project that studies how improvements since 1965 in scientific and technical education for a broader range of young people has grown into what is currently a national priority. The study will explain in detail how, when, and why this commitment to diversity developed, permanently reshaping our modern cultures of science, engineering, education, and child-rearing. Major outcomes include an academic book, Recruiting Engineer Jane and Astrophysicist Amy: American STEM Advocacy for Girls, 1965-Present, plus scholarly papers, public presentations, a textbook, and museum exhibit. Analysis is primarily grounded in history, but draws on and informs our understanding of present-day outreach in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Although the project being supported focuses on the evolution of campaigns for girls, the account to be developed will provide insights into parallel efforts to promote access for other under-represented groups, adding historical dimension to ongoing discussions of diversity in STEM. The researcher conducting the study has extended research experience in the history of science and technology, science-policy studies, and the broad context of modern U.S. history. Her study draws on a wide range of reports, letters, administrative records, and other documentation from individual actors and organizations, such as the National Science Foundation, National Academy of Engineering, American Association of University Women, and Girl Scouts. Beyond assessing this wealth of data, this initiative explores new territory by conducting central case-studies and several dozen unique oral-history interviews with key figures in the movement to open STEM to girls. The researcher will conduct oral-history interviews and archival research across multiple libraries and archives. She will deliver talks to both academic and general audiences, mount a museum exhibit on STEAM (the A denotes the Arts) and diversity, and develop K-12 curriculum packets and exhibit-visitor materials.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.