Expanding STEM Ethics Education to Reduce Gender Bias and Sexual Harassment

扩大 STEM 道德教育以减少性别偏见和性骚扰

• 批准号: 2024204
• 负责人: Matthew Paolucci
• 金额: $ 32.08万
• 依托单位: Sonoma State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2024204&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Expanding; STEM; Ethics; Education; Reduce

This project will serve to establish and maintain STEM cultures that foster research integrity by developing two educational modules that use evidence-based practices from social psychology to reduce gender bias and sexual harassment. The objective in developing these modules is to expand traditional ethics training beyond responsible conduct of research practices to encompass ethical behavior among fellow researchers. The project is designed to extend knowledge and skills in ethical practice across several STEM groups including undergraduate students, faculty members, and professionals. Engaging with these modules at the outset of their careers, STEM undergraduates will be better prepared to recognize, respond to and prevent gender bias and sexual harassment in domains across their careers. STEM faculty at Sonoma State University and across the California State University system are to be trained to use these modules, which will enhance the potential to gain knowledge and skills in a deeper way that will serve not only to transform their teaching, but also better equip them to recognize, confront and prevent gender bias in their career settings. The modules are also to be introduced to other STEM professionals at annual meetings and conferences, which will enable them to gain access to the modules, apply them, and further disseminate them in their work settings. A publicly accessible website is to be developed that will include the full content of the modules, along with recommended teaching strategies for faculty to implement in STEM classes nationwide.The research team will develop ethics training modules that will serve to address gender discrimination and sexual harassment, behaviors that pervades STEM disciplines. They will do so by integrating social psychology theory and research into ethics topics in science courses. These modules will expand beyond presenting content to fostering impactful, prejudice reduction processes by using more effective techniques such as perspective-taking, which serve to arouse empathy and reduce prejudice. The modules are to be used by faculty members to teach students the mechanisms of psychological constructs such as stereotyping, unintentional biases and subtle sexism will aid them in recognizing overt and subtle prejudice throughout their careers. The research team will train faculty at Sonoma State University to incorporate the modules into targeted courses, and they evaluate the effectiveness of the modules through pre-post and comparison group designs. The modules are to be disseminated through training via STEM-NET to interested participants from across the California State University system. They will also disseminate the modules to professional societies, and they will engage in further collaboration to evaluate the effectiveness of their modules in other learning settings.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.

该项目将通过开发两个教育模块，利用社会心理学的循证实践来减少性别偏见和性骚扰，从而建立和维护促进研究诚信的STEM文化。开发这些模块的目的是将传统的伦理培训扩展到研究实践的负责任行为之外，以涵盖研究人员之间的伦理行为。该项目旨在将道德实践的知识和技能扩展到几个STEM团体，包括本科生，教职员工和专业人士。在职业生涯开始时参与这些模块，STEM本科生将更好地准备认识，应对和预防职业生涯中的性别偏见和性骚扰。索诺马州立大学和整个加州州立大学系统的STEM教师将接受培训，以使用这些模块，这将提高以更深层次的方式获得知识和技能的潜力，这不仅有助于改变他们的教学，而且还使他们能够更好地认识、面对和防止职业环境中的性别偏见。还将在年度会议和大会上向其他STEM专业人员介绍这些模块，使他们能够获得这些模块，应用它们，并在其工作环境中进一步传播它们。此外，还将开发一个公开网站，其中将包含模块的全部内容，并沿着建议教师在全国STEM课程中实施的教学策略。研究小组将开发道德培训模块，以应对STEM学科中普遍存在的性别歧视和性骚扰行为。他们将通过将社会心理学理论和研究整合到科学课程的伦理主题中来实现这一目标。这些模块将扩展到提供内容之外，通过使用更有效的技术，如换位思考，促进有影响力的减少偏见的过程，这有助于唤起同情心和减少偏见。教师将使用这些模块来教授学生心理结构的机制，如陈规定型观念，无意的偏见和微妙的性别歧视，这将有助于他们在整个职业生涯中识别公开和微妙的偏见。研究小组将培训索诺马州立大学的教师，将这些模块纳入有针对性的课程，他们通过职前和比较组设计评估这些模块的有效性。这些模块将通过科学、技术、工程和数学网络的培训传播给来自整个加州州立大学系统的感兴趣的参与者。他们还将向专业团体传播这些模块，并将进一步合作，以评估其模块在其他学习环境中的有效性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。