TY - GEN
T1 - Single gender programs
T2 - 33rd Annual Frontiers in Education, FIE 2003
AU - Koppel, Nicole B.
AU - Cano, Rosa M.
AU - Heyman, Suzanne B.
AU - Kimmel, Howard
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2003 IEEE.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - Over the last two decades much work has been done to address the needs of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) areas and to develop interventions that encourage girls to pursue careers in these areas. A popular solution seems to be "single-gender" education but whether or not the positive results of these programs can be attributed to the single-gender environment is questionable. The Center for Pre-college Programs at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has offered a "girls-only" Women in Engineering and Technology program (FEMME) since 1981. To test the hypothesis that the positive results of FEMME may be due to good educational methodologies, rather than due to the single-gender environment, NJIT developed the Pre-Engineering Program (PrEP). The PrEP and one of the FEMME programs are identical in every way, except for the inclusion of male students in PrEP. This paper summarizes the current research on single-gender education in STEM and the results of our study.
AB - Over the last two decades much work has been done to address the needs of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) areas and to develop interventions that encourage girls to pursue careers in these areas. A popular solution seems to be "single-gender" education but whether or not the positive results of these programs can be attributed to the single-gender environment is questionable. The Center for Pre-college Programs at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has offered a "girls-only" Women in Engineering and Technology program (FEMME) since 1981. To test the hypothesis that the positive results of FEMME may be due to good educational methodologies, rather than due to the single-gender environment, NJIT developed the Pre-Engineering Program (PrEP). The PrEP and one of the FEMME programs are identical in every way, except for the inclusion of male students in PrEP. This paper summarizes the current research on single-gender education in STEM and the results of our study.
KW - Attitudes to engineering
KW - Co-educational
KW - Mechanical engineering
KW - Single gender programs
KW - Women in engineering
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84945968931&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/FIE.2003.1263376
DO - 10.1109/FIE.2003.1263376
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84945968931
T3 - Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
SP - T4D12-T4D16
BT - 33rd Annual Frontiers in Education
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 5 November 2003 through 8 November 2003
ER -