GSE/DIS: Creating a Community of Practice on Science, Gender and Afterschool

教育公平概念公司(EEC)是牵头机构，它与教育发展学院(AED)青年发展和政策研究中心合作，并与美国科学促进会(AAAS)合作，提议建立一个关于科学、性别和课外活动(SGA)的独特网络实践社区。目标是：(1)在STEM、性别和课外领域进行进一步研究；(2)帮助课外项目实践者获取他们可以纳入现有项目的高质量STEM内容；以及(3)促进研究人员、政策制定者和实践者之间的联系。SGA实践社区将继续并扩大在2002年9月的一次会议上开始的对话，该会议产生了研究-行动议程。参与者将能够通过在线视频和网络广播论坛、线程讨论、公告栏和列表服务器进行交流，并传播旨在解决女孩兴趣的科学课程。虽然直接的受众将是由参加SGA会议和/或为制定研究-行动议程做出贡献的50名专家组成的核心领导小组，但其他专家将通过广泛的外联和营销战略招募。参与者将通过AED中心开发和管理的网站上的门户网站(www.AfterSchool.org)访问该网站。该网站每月的访问量为1.4万次，点击量超过30万次。该网站将在2005年2月的美国科学促进会年会上与网络广播论坛一起推出；这一推出日期至关重要，因为它将与定于同年生效的《不让一个孩子掉队》规定的新科学成就条款相吻合。智力价值：SGA实践社区是为关注非正式STEM教育的课外项目负责人提供的独特和创新的资源。这些方案分散在全国各地，但总体上代表着需要传播和交流的重要研究、方案评估、课程、最佳做法和出版物。广泛影响：SGA实践社区的总体目标是扩大未得到充分服务的女孩在科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)领域的参与。其目标是将地理上分布的大量研究人员、从业者和政策制定者发展成一个实践社区。

Educational Equity Concepts, Inc. (EEC), lead agency, in collaboration with the Center for Youth Development and Policy Research at the Academy for Educational Development (AED) and in partnership with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), proposes to create a unique web-based community of practice on science, gender and after-school (SGA). Objectives are to: (1) further research in the STEM, gender, and after-school fields; (2) aid after-school program practitioners in accessing high quality STEM content that they can incorporate into their existing programs; and (3) foster connections between researchers, policymakers and practitioners.The SGA Community of Practice will continue and extend the dialogue that began at a conference in September 2002 which resulted in a Research-Action Agenda. Participants will be able to communicate through online video and web-cast forums, threaded discussions, bulletin boards, and listservs, and disseminate science curriculum designed to address girls' interests. While the immediate audience will be the core leadership group of 50 experts who participated in the SGA Conference and/or contributed to the development of the Research-Action Agenda, others will be recruited through extensive outreach and marketing strategies.Participants will access the site through a portal in the website (www.afterschool.org) developed and managed by the AED Center. The site receives 14,000 visits and over 300,000 hits monthly. The site will be launched with a webcast forum at the AAAS Annual Conference in February 2005; this launch date is critical in that it will coincide with the new science achievement provisions mandated by No Child Left Behind, slated to go into effect the same year. Intellectual Merit: The SGA Community of Practice is a unique and innovative resource for leaders of after-school programs concerned with informal STEM education. The programs are scattered across the country but in the aggregate represent significant research, program evaluations, curricula, best practices and publications in need of dissemination and exchange.Broader Impacts: The overall goal of the SGA Community of Practice is to broaden the participation of underserved girls in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The goal is to develop a large and geographically distributed of researchers, practitioners and policymakers into a community of practice.