GSE/DIF Crafting Successful Living-Learning Programs for Women in STEM: Building Blocks for the Future

智力价值：该项目的主要目标是通过向面向STEM领域女性的生活学习项目(L/L)的主任提供来自国家生活学习方案研究(HRD-GSE 0521762)的现成的结果和建议，来促进本科生女性在STEM领域的成功。具体地说，将公布的调查结果和建议侧重于促进L/L在以下方面成功进入STEM的环境和做法：学业、职业和整体自信；感知智力增长；归属感；留住STEM专业；以及大学毕业后的教育和职业规划。这项工作包括两个部分：a)编制一份注重实践的互动手册，详细介绍L/L在STEM中为女性成功编写的课程，并分发给直接面向STEM专业女性的L/L方案主任，这些方案可以通过仅限女性参加的形式(如WIMSE计划)或通过男女同校的STEM形式进行；b)在2009年生活学习计划大会的同时，为50名L/L计划主任举办讲习班。通过以实践为导向的手册和配套工作坊，该项目旨在根据国家SLLP的调查结果，为L/L教职员工提供创建、实施和持续改进L/L实践的建议。通过相互介绍研讨会参与者，这一传播努力还将通过在L/L创建STEM盟友中的女性网络，留下质量改进的遗产。更广泛的影响：拟议的手册和研讨会宣传NSLLP的调查结果，有能力改变STEM女性的本科教育经历。因此，这一传播项目代表着将严谨的研究成果与影响大、成本效益高的干预措施和扩大妇女在科学、技术和经济教育方面的性别平等联系起来的最佳结合。重要的是，以实践为导向的手册和研讨会这两个项目有可能接触到广泛的受众--也许是所有明智的L/L导演--并创建一个专业人员网络，他们的遗产将是改善女性在STEM的本科经历。

Intellectual Merit: The primary goal of this project is to promote the success of undergraduate women in STEM by making available ready-to-implement findings and recommendations from The National Study of Living Learning Programs (NSLLP) (HRD-GSE 0521762) to directors of living-learning (L/L) programs catering to women in STEM fields. Specifically, the findings and recommendations to be publicized focus on the L/L environments and practices that facilitate the success of undergraduate women in STEM in relation to their transition to college; academic, professional, and overall self-confidence; perceived intellectual growth; sense of belonging; retention in STEM majors; and educational and career plans after college graduation. This diffusion effort has two components: a) the development of an interactive practice-oriented manual detailing successful L/L programming for women in STEM, distributed to directors of L/L programs that cater directly to women in STEM majors either through a women-only format (e.g., WIMSE programs) or through a co-educational STEM-based format, and b) a workshop for 50 L/L program directors taking place in conjunction with the 2009 Living-Learning Programs Conference. Through the practice-oriented manual and accompanying workshop, the project aims to provide L/L faculty and staff with recommendations based on findings from the NSLLP for creating, implementing, and continuously improving L/L practice. By introducing the workshop participants to one another, this diffusion effort will also leave a legacy of quality improvement by creating a network of women in STEM allies in L/L. Broader Impacts: The proposed manual and workshop publicizing the findings of the NSLLP have the power to transform the undergraduate educational experience of women in STEM. This diffusion project thus represents the optimal marriage of the communication of rigorous research results with a high-impact, cost-efficient intervention and outreach for increasing gender equity for women in STEM. Importantly, the twin projects of the practice-oriented manual and workshop have the potential to reach a broad audience--perhaps the entire population of WISE L/L directors--and create a network of professionals whose legacy will be the improvement of the undergraduate experience for women in STEM.