GSE/DIS- Beyond Anecdote to Informed Discussion: Women and Girls in STEM Fields

Wellesley College和Campbell-Kibler Associates将开发并广泛传播一系列工具，以帮助教育工作者、学生、家长和其他人了解科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）领域的性别差异和相似性，以及为什么诸如“男性数学基因”之类的误解尽管具有神话般的性质，但仍然存在。这些材料及其传播的目的是帮助STEM倡导者更加扎根于研究，并帮助研究人员更加扎根于交流，包括构建和交流他们的工作和其他研究人员的工作的方式。材料将包括*研究综合*关于STEM教育和职业选择中的性别和性别与种族/民族问题的研究和理论的在线注释参考书目，链接到所有在线出版物和其他文件，包括查找和评估性别和性别与种族/民族和STEM研究的“提示”的简短概述，以及从原始数据中计算图形的工具*一系列可下载的视听信息研究人员在他们认为性别和STEM研究中最引人注目的观点上*提供了一系列“工具”来传达信息，包括PowerPoint演示文稿和谈话要点，这些“工具”有助于交流研究结果，使人们能够从轶事转向知情讨论。知识价值：该项目的主要目标是提高与性别问题和STEM相关的讨论、辩论和决策的准确性和知识内容。拟议的工作有可能增加对性别相似性和差异的研究结果的理解，以及如何在STEM教育政策和计划设计和决策中使用这些结果。项目团队长期从事性别和STEM研究，具有综合研究背景。该项目将制作和传播一系列基于研究的材料，以增加STEM倡导者和研究人员的知识，以及他们向非研究人群传播这些知识的能力。教材将借鉴科学、社会科学和教育领域的理论、研究和实践。更广泛的影响：目前媒体对这个话题很感兴趣，但不准确和刻板印象比比皆是。通过为研究人员、倡导者、媒体和一般互联网公众提供可用、可访问、准确的信息和工具来获取这些信息，该项目有可能帮助政策制定者、教育工作者甚至家长和学生做出更多基于研究的决策。该项目补充了许多其他平行的综合信息的努力，可能会提高对研究的关注。

Wellesley College and Campbell-Kibler Associates will develop and widely disseminate a series of tools to help educators, students, parents and others understand what is and what isn't known about sex differences and similarities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and why misconceptions such as "the male math gene" persist despite their mythical nature. The purpose of the materials and their dissemination is to help STEM advocates become more grounded in the research and to help researchers become more grounded in communication, including ways of framing and communicating their work and the work of other researchers to non research populations.Materials will include* a synthesis of the research* an online annotated bibliography of research and theory on gender and gender and race/ethnicity issues in STEM education and career choice with links to all publications and other documents that are available online including a short overview of "tips' to finding and assessing research on gender and gender and race/ethnicity and STEM and a tool for computing graphs from raw data* a series of short downloadable audio-visual messages from researchers on those points they believe are most compelling about gender and STEM research* a range of "tools" for getting the message out, including PowerPoint presentations and talking points that can help in communicating research results in ways that allow people to move beyond anecdotes to informed discussion.Intellectual Merit: The major thrust of this project is to increase the accuracy and intellectual content of discussions, debates and decisions related to gender issues and STEM. The proposed work has the potential to increase understanding of the results of research on sex similarities and differences and on how to use these results in STEM educational policy and program design and decision-making. The project team long time gender and STEM researchers, with backgrounds in research synthesis. The project will produce and disseminate a series of research based materials to increase STEM advocate and researcher knowledge and their ability to communicate that knowledge to non-research populations. Materials will draw on theory, research and practice from the sciences, social sciences, and education.Broader Impact: There is currently great media interest in this topic, but inaccuracies and stereotypes abound. By providing researchers, advocates, the media and the general internet public with usable, accessible, accurate information and tools to get this information out, this project has the potential to help policymakers, educators and even parents and students make more research based decisions. The project compliments a number of other parallel efforts to synthesize information and will likely boost attention to research.