DEM-Research Internships in Science and Engineering (RISE): Linking Undergraduate Female Students in SMET Fields and Female Faculty Mentors

DEM-科学与工程研究实习 (RISE)：将 SMET 领域的本科女学生与女教师导师联系起来

• 批准号: 0120786
• 负责人: Linda Schmidt
• 金额: $ 89.98万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland, College Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-10-01 至 2006-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0120786&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DEM; Research; Internships; Science; Engineering

The University of Maryland is testing an educational intervention program designed to address aspects of both external (contextual) and internal (individually based) barriers to success and persistence of women in science and engineering. The program -- called RISE: Research Internships in Science and Engineering -- offers a hands-on introductory orientation program for freshmen (Level One) and an enhanced team research experience for upper class students (Level Two) . The enhanced team experience consists of participation in all-female research teams, mentoring by female faculty members and advanced female students (undergraduates and graduate students) who are paid and trained to perform significant mentoring and teaching of undergraduate women. The female faculty member's own research program is the setting for the student teamwork and mentoring.Specifically, the intervention addresses the external factors of the "chilly climate" of science, the lack of female role models and mentors, and the lack of a female "critical mass" among students and faculty in SMET academic departments. Regarding "internal barriers," we identify underestimation of abilities as operationalized by "self-efficacy" as the most useful psychological construct for understanding the ambivalence related to career choice and persistence in SMET undergraduate majors. Self-efficacy describes the notion that students develop beliefs about their personal capabilities at different academic pursuits (e.g., whether or not they can "do math"). Self-efficacy has been the basis for a large body of findings in the vocational literature, much of it focusing on the debilitating effects of low self-efficacy on the selection and persistence of career options including engineering and science fields.Female faculty are supported in their mentoring of young women (both in terms of training and finances), and at the same time make progress in their own research program. The entire research team (consisting of the faculty member, RISE Fellows and up to four RISE participants) is taking part in training on mentorship, team functioning, and psychological constructs key to enhancing the successful learning of women studentsThis demonstration program has the potential to bring some of the advantages of an all-female learning environment, epitomized by women's colleges, into more mainstream higher education such as the University of Maryland College Park. Replicable features include: role model hierarchies, mentor training, and all-female research teams. Also replicable is the notion of a two level program, beginning with a front end experience that excites and prepares entering female college students, moving on to an extended research internship in the later years that involves close contact with successful woman scientists and engineers.

马里兰大学正在测试一项教育干预计划，旨在解决外部（上下文）和内部（基于）基于内部（个人）在科学和工程领域的妇女持久性的障碍。该计划称为RISE：科学与工程学的研究实习，为新生（第一级）提供动手入门介绍计划，并为上级学生提供了增强的团队研究经验（第二级）。增强的团队经验包括参加全女性研究团队，由女教师和高级女学生（本科生和研究生）的指导，他们得到了报酬和培训，以对本科女性进行重要的指导和教学。女教师自己的研究计划是学生团队合作和指导的设置。特别是，干预措施解决了科学“寒冷的气候”，缺乏女性榜样和导师的外部因素，以及在Smet学术部门中缺乏女性“临界群众”的女性“临界群众”。关于“内部障碍”，我们确定对“自我效能感”运营的能力的低估是理解与SMET本科专业的职业选择和持久性相关的矛盾性的最有用的心理结构。自我效能感描述了学生在不同学术追求中发展自己的个人能力的信念（例如，他们是否可以“做数学”）。自我效能感一直是职业文学中大量发现的基础，其中大部分集中于低自我效能感对包括工程和科学领域在内的职业选择和持久性的衰弱的影响。在培训和财务方面以及同时在其自身的研究计划方面取得了进展，包括工程和科学领域的职业选择和持久性。整个研究团队（由教师，崛起的家伙和多达四名崛起的参与者组成）正在参加指导，团队职能和心理构造的培训，以及增强女性学生示范计划成功学习的成功的关键，这可能会将全女性学习环境的一些优势带入妇女学院，以女性大学的教育为代表性地培养玛丽大学，以表现为玛丽大学的教育，例如更高级的教育。可复制的功能包括：榜样层次结构，导师培训和全女性研究团队。同样可复制的是两个级别计划的概念，从前端体验开始，兴奋并准备进入女大学生，在后来的几年中继续进行扩展的研究实习，涉及与成功的女科学家和工程师的密切联系。