Step UP for STEM and Health Careers: An Intervention to Reduce STEM related biases towards young women and minorities

加强 STEM 和健康事业：减少对年轻女性和少数族裔的 STEM 相关偏见的干预措施

• 批准号: 10080825
• 负责人: MELISSA L. GILLIAM
• 金额: $ 25.13万
• 依托单位: RESILIENT GAMES STUDIO, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-14 至 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10080825
• 关键词: Adolescent; Attitude; Awareness; Behavior; Behavior Therapy; Businesses; Chicago; Cognitive; Development; Dimensions; Educational Curriculum; Elements; Future; Goals; Health; Health education; High School Student; Indigenous; Intention; Interdisciplinary Study; Intervention; Knowledge; Methods; Minority; Modeling; Motivation; Outcome; Pacific Island Americans; Pathway interactions; Perception; Performance; Phase; Planning Theory; Primary Prevention; Process; Reproductive Health; Research; Resources; Role; STEM career; Schools; Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics; Self Efficacy; Sex Bias; Sexual Harassment; Sexual Health; Small Business Technology Transfer Research; Testing; Underrepresented Minority; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Violence; Woman; Work; base; behavior change; career; college; critical period; design; digital; educational atmosphere; expectation; experience; high school; improved; innovation; interest; professional atmosphere; programs; prototype; racism; sexual violence; skills; social; social cognitive theory; success; systematic review; theories; university student; usability; young woman

Project Abstract The National Institutes of Health has a stated commitment to diversifying the national scientific workforce. While diversity has many dimensions, women and underrepresented minorities (i.e., black, Latinx, indigenous, and Pacific Islanders) are particularly underrepresented in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) and health careers. Rather than ability, disparities in career entry for both groups are largely due to differences in motivation and “sense of belonging,” which have a significant impact on educational success and persistence to build a career in STEM and health fields. Research shows that adolescents who experience racism at work or in school have negative outcome expectations for future careers. Experiences with sexual harassment, in particular, among young women, and STEM-related gender bias uniquely contribute to lower STEM motivation. The goal of this proposal is to create an interactive digital resource, Step Up for STEM and Health Careers (STEP UP) that includes the key elements of a bystander intervention for high school students to acquire the skills, attitudes, and awareness to mitigate bias and sexual harassment in STEM and health learning environments and attain a positive STEM identity. STEP UP will be a state-of-the-art, theory-based (Theory of Planned Behavior) intervention, informed by the Social Cognitive Career Theory with a long-term goal of increasing representation of women and minorities in STEM and health careers.

项目摘要 美国国立卫生研究院明确致力于使国家科学研究多样化 虽然多样性有很多方面，但女性和代表性不足的少数群体（即， 黑人、拉丁裔、土著和太平洋岛民）在科学领域的代表性尤其不足， 技术、工程和数学（STEM）和健康职业而不是能力。 两个群体的职业进入差异很大程度上是由于动机和“意识”的差异 归属感”，这对教育的成功和坚持建立一个 研究表明，在 STEM 和健康领域经历过种族歧视的青少年。 工作或学校对未来职业的经历有负面的期望。 性骚扰，尤其是年轻女性的性骚扰，以及与 STEM 相关的独特性别偏见 该提案的目标是创建一个交互式数字化环境。 资源，Step Up for STEM 和 Health Careers (STEP UP)，其中包括 旁观者干预让高中生获得技能、态度和意识 减少 STEM 和健康学习环境中的偏见和性骚扰，并实现 积极的 STEM 身份将是最先进的、基于理论的（计划理论） 行为）干预，以社会认知职业理论为基础，长期目标是 增加妇女和少数族裔在 STEM 和卫生事业中的代表性。