Evaluation research using astronomy theatre suggests good promise for young Spanish-origin women to choose science majors

Evaluation research using astronomy theatre suggests good promise for young Spanish-origin women to choose science majors

We report evaluation findings and best practices from a morning of research with senior class students at an all-Spanish-origin, secondary school in the southwest United States. We found a jump in interest toward science for the women who self-identified as humanities students, and over the morning,...

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Main Authors: Corbally Christopher, Rappaport Margaret Boone
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: EDP Sciences 2019-01-01
Series:EPJ Web of Conferences
Online Access:https://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/pdf/2019/05/epjconf_ise2a2017_01010.pdf
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spelling doaj-99c56c14af954858b7d7a578ccad340a2021-08-02T04:37:26ZengEDP SciencesEPJ Web of Conferences2100-014X2019-01-012000101010.1051/epjconf/201920001010epjconf_ise2a2017_01010Evaluation research using astronomy theatre suggests good promise for young Spanish-origin women to choose science majorsCorbally ChristopherRappaport Margaret BooneWe report evaluation findings and best practices from a morning of research with senior class students at an all-Spanish-origin, secondary school in the southwest United States. We found a jump in interest toward science for the women who self-identified as humanities students, and over the morning, surprisingly, this affected their remembrance of previous attitudes. Our results for this and other evaluations corroborate that experiential activities involving one-to-one or group activities are useful in attracting high school and college students to the sciences, especially young women. These results also pointed toward best practices.https://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/pdf/2019/05/epjconf_ise2a2017_01010.pdf
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description We report evaluation findings and best practices from a morning of research with senior class students at an all-Spanish-origin, secondary school in the southwest United States. We found a jump in interest toward science for the women who self-identified as humanities students, and over the morning, surprisingly, this affected their remembrance of previous attitudes. Our results for this and other evaluations corroborate that experiential activities involving one-to-one or group activities are useful in attracting high school and college students to the sciences, especially young women. These results also pointed toward best practices.
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