MPWG: The Douglass Science Institute Program Series: Encouraging Precollege Women to Persist in Math and Science Studies

道格拉斯科学研究所（DSI）计划系列提供深入的“动手”数学和科学经验，在一个单一性别的环境中，为高中女性鼓励他们在数学和科学研究的坚持。这是一项计划多年的干预工作。关于女性在数学、科学和工程领域的代表性不足，以及关于女孩教育的研究和一般文献提供了证据，表明高中阶段的干预计划对于扭转女孩从数学和科学学习中流失的趋势至关重要。差别对待，缺乏鼓励，以及对数学和科学职业选择的了解，导致对这些学科的消极态度，对课程和课外数学和科学活动的参与有限，以及较低的成就率。该系列由道格拉斯项目为罗格斯大学数学、科学和工程专业的女性提供，并在道格拉斯学院举行，该学院是罗格斯大学的女性本科单位，即新泽西州立大学。该系列课程是一个以学生为中心的模式，在四年的时间里，为高中女生提供数学、科学和工程方面的连续“动手”参与，以及激励活动。学生们在九年级之前的夏天开始这个项目，并将在接下来的三个夏天继续学习。针对九年级学生的计划是该系列的初始阶段。完成九年级课程的学生被鼓励申请在十年级，十一年级和十二年级之前的暑期课程。该系列包含了许多已被发现是“模范”干预计划的组成部分的特征，包括“动手”指导和合作小组工作，多年的大学校园住宿经验，榜样和家长活动。国家科学基金的资金将用于评估和修改10年级的项目（将于1994年首次提供），以及11年级项目第一年的发展（1995年）。九年级女生部分主要由美国电话电报公司基金会资助。（该系列计划的其他支持者包括默克科学教育研究所、威廉·伦道夫·赫斯特基金会、R.W.约翰逊制药研究所和先灵葆雅基金会。）在努力增加数学、科学和工程领域的年轻女性人数方面，该系列可以作为其他机构的榜样。＊＊＊

9450588 Mappen The Douglass Science Institute (DSI) Program Series provides in-depth "hands-on" mathematics and science experiences in a single-sex environment for high school women to encourage their persistence in mathematics and science studies. It is planned as a multi-year intervention effort. Research and general literature on the underrepresentation of women in the mathematics, science, and engineering pipeline, as well as on the education of girls, provide evidence that intervention programs during the high school years are essential to reverse the attrition of girls from mathematics and science studies. Differential treatment, lack of encouragement, and of knowledge about career options in mathematics and science, lead to negative attitudes towards these disciplines, limited participation in curricular and extracurricular mathematics and science activities, and lower achievement rates. The Series is offered by the Douglass Project for Rutgers Women in Math, Science, and Engineering, and is held at Douglass College, the women's undergraduate unit of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The Program Series is a student-centered model that provides a continuum of "hands-on" involvement in mathematics, science, and engineering, as well as motivational activities, for high school women over a four-year period. Students begin the program during the summer preceeding the ninth grade, and will be able to continue with it over the following three summers. The program for ninth graders is the initial phase of the series. Students who complete the ninth grade program are encouraged to apply for programs which will take placed during the summers preceding their tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grade years. The Series incorporates many of the characteristics which have been found to be integral components of "exemplary" intervention programs, including "hand-on" instruction and cooperative group work, a multi-year, residential experience on a college campus, rol e models, and activities for parents. Funding from NSF will be used for evaluation and modification of the 10th grade program (to be offered for the first time in 1994), and for development of the first year of the 11th grade program (1995). The segment for Ninth Grade Women is funded primarily by the AT&T Foundation. (Other supporters of the Program Series include the Merck Institute for Science Education, the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, the R.W. Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Institute, and the Schering-Plough Foundation.) The Series can serve as model for others in efforts to increase the numbers of young women in the mathematics, science, and engineering. ***