Representing women in science: designing laboratory activities based on women’s work

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Maciel ◽  
Gustavo Braga Alcantara ◽  
Caroline Gomide ◽  
George Sand Franca
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Women In Science ◽  
Stem Careers ◽  
School Students ◽  
Female Scientist ◽  
Gender Parity ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The University

<p><span>The gender gap is measured globally by the World’s Economic Forum in four key areas: economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment. According to the 2020 Global Gender Gap index, it will take us nearly 100 years to get gender parity. Also according to the World’s Economic Forum report, if we consider the fastest growing professions of the future, a critical data reveals a problematic situation: women form only 26% among people with AI and data skills, 15% among people with engineering skills and 12% among those with cloud computing skills. Education is thus an important key to embed gender parity into the future. Today, 55% of working-age women are in the labour market, against 78% of men. This gap can increase even more if we do not include young girls in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) courses. Gender issues concerning access, permanence and ascension of women in STEM careers, in general, relates to various aspects. Between other elements, we point the underrepresentation of women in science communications, sexual or moral harassment caused by professors and colleagues during undergraduate and graduate ages, or the overload of housework for girls, when compared to boys, during early school ages. In other words, gender imbalance in STEM careers is the result of a series of structured oppression suffered by women of all ages. In this context, we developed a set of laboratory routines based on the work of female scientists, directed to students from 12 to 18 years old, at the Planaltina Campus of the University of Brasília. The University of Brasília is the 4th most prominent university in Brazil, and its resources are distributed between four camps. Planaltina Campus is situated 40 km away from the main campus. In recent research, it has been shown that only 30% of Planaltina young population has the intention of accessing the university. From those, only 15% pretend to study exact and earth sciences. Thinking about the World’s Economic Forum alert about professions of the future, we felt the necessity of promoting a program to capacitate, inform and demystify tabus from exact sciences among high school students, especially among girls. The activities start with the rescue of a prominent female scientist in the field that will be worked on that day, followed by a pedagogical transcript of her work. We conduct a hands-on laboratory within the University of Brasília infrastructure. The idea of the labs is to work as a school reinforcement on natural sciences disciplines, and to give visibility to women in science, improving issues such as underrepresentation and mistrust in women work. We will present the results of an implemented questionnaire and also comment about the challenges of our experience. </span></p>

scholarly journals PENGENALAN DAN PELATIHAN PEMROGRAMAN DASAR BLOCKLY KEPADA SISWA SMA AL AZHAR 1, 2 DAN 3

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Riri Safitri ◽  
Ade Jamal ◽  
Endang Ripmiatin ◽  
Denny Hermawan ◽  
Arif Supriyanto
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Computer Software ◽  
Opportunity To Learn ◽  
School Students ◽  
Problem Solving Skills ◽  
Interactive Games ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

<p align="center"><strong>Abstrak</strong> </p><p><em>Teknologi komputer mempengaruhi setiap bidang kehidupan saat ini. ia masuk dan mengubah setiap bidang di dunia, mulai dari industri dan bisnis, transportasi, komunikasi, kesehatan, dan lain-lain. Setiap siswa memiliki kesempatan yang sama untuk mempleajari dan menguasai teknologi, belajar coding, menguasai algoritma, mempelajari bagaimana cara membuat aplikasi, bagaimana internet bekerja, dalam rangka memupuk kreativitas dan keterampilan menyelesaikan masalah (problem solving) yang akan sangat berguna bagi kehidupan mereka di masa depan. Program komputer/perangkat lunak atau software akan menjadi hal yang sangat penting, bahkan mungkin akan menjadi bahasa dunia ke depan. Tidak menguasai programming atau bahasa komputer di masa depan, akan sama efeknya dengan tidak bias baca tulis saat ini. Belajar ilmu komputer tidak hanya belajar tentang teknologi itu sendiri, namun juga belajar logika, penyelesaian masalah (problem solving), dan kreativitas. Oleh karena itu perlu adanya pengenalan dan pelatihan pemrograman untuk siswa sekolah untuk melatih kemampuan logika dan problem solving. Pelatihan pemrograman diberikan dalam bentuk simulasi Blockly berupa games yang menarik dan interaktif. Hasil dari pelatihan didapatkan bahwa siswa SMA peserta pelatihan merasa kegiatan ini sangat menarik dan bermanfaat dan dapat menambah pamahaman dan keterampilan mereka dalam hal IT dan penerapannya.</em></p><p><strong>Kata kunci<em>: </em></strong><strong><em>Coding, </em></strong><strong><em>Komputer, Pemrograman, TIK</em></strong></p><p><strong><em><br /></em></strong></p><p align="center"><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p><em>Computer technology affects every area of life today. he entered and changed every field in the world, starting from industry and business, transportation, communication, health, and others. Every student has the same opportunity to learn and master technology, learn coding, master algorithms, learn how to make applications, how the internet works, in order to foster creativity and problem solving skills that will be very useful for their lives in the future . Computer / software or software programs will be very important, maybe even become the world language in the future. Not mastering programming or computer language in the future, it will have the same effect as the current non-literacy. Learning computer science not only learns about technology itself, but also learns logic, problem solving, and creativity.</em> <em>Therefore there is a need for introduction and programming training for school students to practice logic and problem solving skills. Programming training is provided in the form of Blockly simulations in the form of interesting and interactive games. The results of the training found that high school students participating in the training felt this activity was very interesting and useful and could add to their understanding and skills in terms of IT and its application.</em> </p><p><strong>Keywords<em>: </em></strong><strong><em>Coding, </em></strong><strong><em>Computer, Computer Science, Programming</em></strong></p>

scholarly journals FACTORS AFFECTING HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ DECISION ON CHOOSING A UNIVERSITY: A SURVEY IS CONDUCTED IN THE SOUTHEAST REGION OF VIETNAM

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3(43)) ◽  
pp. 8-13
Author(s):  
Lan Huong Kieu
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Alpha Coefficient ◽  
School Students ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Southeast Region ◽  
12Th Grade ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
The Future ◽  
The University ◽  
Coefficient Method

The study is conducted to assess the current condition of variables influencing a decision on choosing a university via data collected directly from 574 students being grade 12 in the Southeast region of Vietnam. The alpha coefficient method (Cronbach’s alpha), exploratory factor analysis (EFA), and multivariate linear regression are applied in this research. The findings indicate that five significant elements affecting the decision on choosing a university are job opportunities in the future, characteristics of the university, efforts to communicate with students of the university, the orientation of influential people, and diversity and attractiveness of training professions. In addition, some policies are also mentioned in the study to enhance enrollment counseling for 12th-grade students in the future.

scholarly journals A multi-year science research or engineering experience in high school gives women confidence to continue in the STEM pipeline or seek advancement in other fields: A 20-year longitudinal study

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (11) ◽  
pp. e0258717
Author(s):  
Patricia K. Hunt ◽  
Michelle Dong ◽  
Crystal M. Miller
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Women In Science ◽  
Stem Fields ◽  
School Students ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Stem Pipeline

There remains a large gender imbalance in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce deriving from a leaky pipeline where women start losing interest and confidence in science and engineering as early as primary school. To address this disparity, the Science Research & Engineering Program (SREP) at Hathaway Brown School was established in 1998 to engage and expose their all-female high school students to STEM fields through an internship-like multi-year research experience at partnering institutions. We compare data from existing Hathaway Brown School SREP alumnae records from 1998–2018 (n = 495) to Non-SREP students and national datasets (National Center for Educational Statistics, National Science Foundation, and US Census data) to assess how SREP participation may influence persistence in the STEM pipeline and whether SREP alumnae attribute differences in these outcomes to the confidence and skill sets they learned from the SREP experience. The results reveal that women who participate in the SREP are more likely to pursue a major in a STEM field and continue on to a STEM occupation compared to non-SREP students, national female averages, and national subsets. Participants attribute their outcomes to an increase in confidence, establishment of technical and professional skills, and other traits strengthened through the SREP experience. These data suggest that implementing similar experiential programs for women in science and engineering at the high school stage could be a promising way to combat the remaining gender gap in STEM fields.

scholarly journals Motivation of obtaining higher pharmaceutical education of students of the National Pharmaceutical University

2018 ◽  
pp. 41-50
Author(s):  
A. A. Kotvitska ◽  
N. V. Zhyvora ◽  
O. S. Ovakimyan
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
School Students ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
The Future ◽  
Choice Satisfaction ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Education Of Students ◽  
The University

Choice of profession is the main factor in the further life of man, his attitude to himself and the world. When choosing a profession, a person is guided by a number of motives. In modern society, the motives of high school students are influenced by many socio-psychological factors: material living conditions, new reforms in secondary and higher education, individual-psychological characteristics of a senior pupil, his abilities, communication skills, families and socialization. All this causes changes in the motivational system of the individual, which in turn influences the process of choosing the future profession. All of the above proves the importance and urgency of studying the motives for the choice of the specialty and university by applicants. The research topic is the motives for choosing a university and specialty and their role in the formation of future professionals. The purpose of the study is to determine the channels for obtaining information about the university and the specialty, identifying the motives for choosing a university and the first impressions of being at the university. The subject of the study is students of the National Pharmaceutical University 1 course of pharmaceutical faculties N 1, N 2, N 3. The subject of the research is the motives for choosing a university and specialty, awareness of the profession, the sustainability of professional choice, satisfaction with the chosen institution and specialty. Methods of research – on-line questioning, study and analysis of data received during the survey. The results of the survey showed that social and professional motives for obtaining education, along with an orientation toward self-development, became the most significant for future pharmacists. It is found out that freshmen have inherent characteristics of creative confidence both in relation to the future profession and in relation to studying at the university. It was revealed that the Internet site takes the first place among the main channels for obtaining information about the NUPh and a specialty, but a significant potential is determined in the provision of information by college teachers, although this channel was not actively used by first-year students. It can be argued that the scientific and pedagogical staff of the university are dealing with students who positively perceive modernity and innovation. On the basis of data analysis, a portrait of a freshman from the NUPh was compiled.

Telling Cases That Inform an Understanding of Factors Impacting the Development of Inventors From Diverse Backgrounds

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-142
Author(s):  
Stephanie Couch ◽  
Audra Skukauskaite ◽  
Leigh B. Estabrooks
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Young Men ◽  
The United States ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
School Students ◽  
School Year ◽  
Diverse Backgrounds

The lack of diversity among patent holders in the United States (1-3) is a topic that is being discussed by federal policymakers. Available data suggests that prolific patent holders and leading technology innovators are 88.3% male and nearly 94.3% Asian, Pacific Islander, or White, and half of the diversity that does exist is among those who are foreign born (3). The data shows that there is a need for greater diversity among patent holders. Few studies, however, are available to guide the work of educators creating learning opportunities to help young people from diverse backgrounds learn to invent. Educators must navigate issues that have complex sociocultural and historical dimensions (4), which shape the ideas of those surrounding them regarding who can invent, with whom, under what conditions, and for what purposes. In this paper, we report the results of an ongoing multimethod study of an invention education pro- gram that has worked with teachers and students in Grades 6 through 12 for the past 16 years. Findings stem from an analysis of end-of-year experience surveys and interview transcripts of six students (three young men and three young women) who participated in high school InvenTeams®. The data were used to investigate three topics: 1) ways high school students who have participated on an InvenTeam conceptualize the term "failure" and what it means to "learn from failure," 2) what supported and constrained the work of the three young women during their InvenTeams experience and the implications for policy makers concerned about the gender gap in patenting, and 3) ways the young men and young women took up (or didn't take up) the identity of "inventor" after working on a team that developed a working prototype of an invention during the previous school year.

Anxiety of High School Students Preparing for University during the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 374-377
Author(s):  
Prapattra Hongwisat ◽  
Thanawat Wuthikanokkan ◽  
Nathakan Preechakansakul
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Respiratory Symptoms ◽  
The Other ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
School Students ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Online Form

Covid-19 are one of the viruses that were widely spreaded in 2019 and are still separate until nowadays. Thailand is one of the countries that are highly infected. The majority of people who are infected with this virus tend to have mild to severe respiratory symptoms. Furthermore, anyone can get sick, and it can lead to death. However, the most common symptoms of this virus are fever, cough, tiredness, and loss of taste or smell, on the other hand, characteristics in a minority of people, such as diarrhea and headaches. Due to the impact of the Covid-19 virus, people have to change their lifestyle to the online form. These changes have impacted mostly on economics and education in particular countries, so this problem also affects anxiety among high school students; who must prepare to apply to the university during the COVID-19 outbreak. In addition, we have collected 151 answers from high school students by surveying in order to know the feelings for entrance to the university during the pandemic situation. We found out that 81.3% of the students are highly affected by covid, and only 0.7% of students are slightly affected. We also found out that 55% of the students are worried about university entrance, and only 2.6% of the students were not worried at all. According to the result, most of the students in Thailand are facing the problem about their education and their entrance for the university which are caused by Covid-19. This may lead to illnesses like depression and anxiety. Keywords: Students, Learning, COVID-19, Thailand, University.

scholarly journals Moral education of students in the cultural and educational space of the high school

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 211-216
Author(s):  
Sergey Victorovich Pupkov
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
School Students ◽  
Moral Value ◽  
Substantive Content ◽  
The World ◽  
Practical Development ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Education Of Students

The necessity of the moral education of students of high school students as an initiation to the values of which are in the teacher-written cultural and educational space. Amended scientific understanding of the concept of educational space and proved that the substantive content of the notion of cultural and educational space gets through the involvement of the term culture. The essence of cultural and educational space of the university lies in its multi-dimensionality, which is expressed in infinity broadcast through the channels of education and training culture as the experience of, the experience of spiritual and practical development of the world in the moral experience moral, value relationships according to the criterion limit it (experience) of the base (value of a person), by which the subject-object, object-subject and subject-subject relations are optional. The content of the cultural and educational space, formed the subject-object and subject-subject relationship, the relationship between them becomes dialectical by the object-subject relationship in which there are values that are axiological nucleus of activity, axiological form of culture. Determine the purpose of the subject-object and subject-subject relations as the content of the image of cultural and educational space, and on the basis of this mission revealed features of pedagogical activity of the teacher conducting the moral education of students: to provide storage, reproduction, broadcast culture as the experience of concluded (experience) in ostensive, imperative, axiological forms of culture, its forms-principles; organization of the work of students with cultural forms; student organization ascent from axiological forms of culture its forms-principles; transfer of experience of spiritual and practical development of morality in the world, the experience of behavior and activity, experience, moral, value relations.

scholarly journals ACADEMIC GYMNASIUM IN LVIV: 1849-1914

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 50-68
Author(s):  
Kostiantyn KONDRATIUK ◽  
Oresta KOTSIUMBAS
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Experienced Teachers ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
School Students ◽  
Normative Documents ◽  
The University

Academic Gymnasium was found in October 1784 at the University of Lviv. This is a state secondary educational institution of the humanitarian direction. The graduates-maturists had the opportunity to continue their studies at the university after its completion. The Academic Gymnasium was the oldest gymnasium with the Ukrainian language of instruction. The information concerning the gymnasium's organization's functioning and principles till 1848 was lost due to revolutionary events. We can find the data about the organization of the institution's functioning, the number of teachers and students, and their social origin from 1849. At the same time, this date coincides with the secondary school's reform in 1849 based on the «Organizational Essay of High Schools and Actual Schools of Austria» and the «Normative Plan of Education for Gymnasia», which functioned until 1910 with minor changes. Exactly these normative documents regulated the functioning of the gymnasium - the organization of the educational process, the language of teaching, the priority of disciplines, the number and load of teachers, the organization of extra-curricular activities of high school students. Since 1907, the gymnasium is reorganized into the Main Gymnasium due to the number of students' growth and moving into a newly built building on L. Sapieha street and the Branch in the premises of the Narodnyi dim (People's Hall). The educational process in the gymnasium was carried out based on ministerial plans. By the end of the 20th century, more than 60% of the educational time was spent on learning languages, and the natural and mathematical cycle reached 25%, which indicates the humanitarian direction of gymnasium preparation. The situation was changed by the curriculum for classical gymnasiums in 1909, according to which the disciplines of the natural-mathematical cycle were synchronized with the requirements of universities. The article's main thesis is that during the 1849-1914 years, the Tsissar-Royal Academic Gymnasium in Lviv developed into a leading secondary educational institution. Mostly Ukrainian Greek Catholics, natives from Halychyna, studied here. The headmasters of the gymnasium were experienced teachers, skilled administrators. During the second half of the 19th century - at the beginning of the 20th century, the gymnasium was headed by Franz Brugger (1848-1858), Ivan Piontkovskyi (1858-1868), Vasyl Ilnytskyi (1868-1892 ), Edvard Kharkevych (1892-1911) and Illia Kokorudz (1911-1927). The teaching staff was increasing quantitatively and qualitatively. Careful selection, education requirements, and teaching methods provided the gymnasium with qualified specialists and responsible officials. The institution's educational process was provided by about 23-25 ​teachers, 70% of whom were gymnasium professors. Teachers of gymnasium conducted classes on a high professional level with students and created original textbooks in their native language, literature, history, and geography. Many teachers of the gymnasium and later graduates became well-known socio-political figures, scientists, and artists.So, Academic Gymnasium in Lviv is a secondary educational institution of the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. It functioned following Austrian secondary school legislation. The Academic Gymnasium, being in the structure of the Lviv University, provided it with well-prepared entrants. Students received a profound knowledge of normative disciplines in the gymnasium and a good national and religious education. The heads of the educational institution were experienced teachers and organizers who took care of the proper provision of the educational institution with teaching staff. The educational and methodological literature was supported, developed, and implemented in the educational process, together with teachers and public figures. Teachers of the gymnasium constantly worked on self-education and were active socio-political leaders. Keywords: Academic Gymnasium, organization, Krajova Szkolna Rada (Region School Council), teachers, teaching process, students, educational legislation.

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