Women with Disabilities in STEM Education Research Agenda Development Project (WWDSE)

智力价值：美国心理协会(APA)正在发起一项努力，为关于女性中等教育后STEM教育中与残疾相关的差异的知识库做出贡献。这包括影响学生兴趣、学业成绩、STEM学位课程留存、STEM学位结业和职业选择的教育、社交和职业前经历。“STEM教育中的残疾妇女研究议程制定项目”(WWDSE)将创建一个研究议程，培养一个新兴的关于STEM教育中残疾妇女的学术工作机构，从而扩大残疾妇女在STEM教育各个领域的参与和成就。APA正在开展以下活动：1)对国家科学基金会和教育部在性别和残疾领域具有专门知识的受资助者进行讲习班前调查，以及2)举办一次关于残疾妇女在STEM教育中面临的支持和障碍的讲习班。更广泛的影响：尽管心理学领域的几篇实证文献讨论了这一问题的具体方面，但目前没有一项研究专门确定或告知我们对STEM中残疾妇女积极教育成果的支持和障碍的理解。知识方面的这一重大差距影响了最大限度地发挥残疾妇女所代表的人力资本的努力，以实现到2020年增加STEM专业人员的国家目标。APA将传播由此产生的研究议程，以鼓励初级和更有经验的研究人员设计研究来回答提出的问题。此外，研究议程将成为潜在的指南，指导资助者如何将资源用于支持这项研究，并开始向教育工作者和管理人员提供干预措施的种子，以便更好地支持残疾妇女接受STEM教育。所有交付成果都将向残疾人开放。

Intellectual Merit: The American Psychological Association (APA) is launching an effort to contribute to the knowledge base on disabilities related differences in postsecondary STEM education for women. This includes the educational, social, and pre-professional experiences that influence student interest, academic performance, retention in STEM degree programs, STEM degree completion, and career choices. The "Women with Disabilities in STEM Education Research Agenda Development Project" (WWDSE) will create a research agenda that cultivates an emerging body of scholarly work on women with disabilities in STEM education that will lead to broadening the participation and achievement of women with disabilities in all fields of STEM education. APA is undertaking the following activities: 1) conducting a pre-workshop survey of NSF and Department of Education grantees with expertise in the areas of gender and disability, and 2) convening a workshop on supports and barriers facing women with disabilities in STEM education. Broader Impacts: Although several empirical literatures within psychology address specific aspects of the issue, currently no one line of research specifically identifies or informs our understanding of the supports and barriers to positive educational outcomes for women with disabilities in STEM. This critical gap in knowledge effects efforts to maximize the human capital represented by women with disabilities in meeting national goals of increasing STEM professionals by 2020. APA will disseminate the resulting research agenda to encourage both junior and more seasoned investigators to design studies to answer the questions raised. In addition, the research agenda will serve as a potential guide to funders on ways to direct resources to support this research and begin to provide educators and administrators with the seeds of interventions to better support women with disabilities in STEM education. All deliverables will be made accessible to those with disabilities.