Stoeger, Heidrun and Duan, Xiaoju and Schirner, Sigrun and Greindl, Teresa and Ziegler, Albert (2013) The effectiveness of a one-year online mentoring program for girls in STEM. COMPUTERS & EDUCATION, 69. pp. 408-418. ISSN 0360-1315, 1873-782X
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Although the performance of girls in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is continually improving and is no longer below that of boys in most domains, girls' interests in STEM and participation rates are still too low. Online mentoring may help ameliorate this situation. To test this assumption, a one-year personal mentoring program for eleven to eighteen-year-old female college-preparatory students was evaluated. Mentee and mentor communicate with one another and with other program participants via email, online chat, and forums. To measure program effectiveness, we randomly assigned participants (N = 312) to either a treatment group (N = 208) or a waiting-list control group (N = 104). We collected questionnaire data at three points in time. In comparison to the waiting-list group, the treatment-group participants showed greater levels of desirable short-term and long-term developments. Our findings indicate various advantages for online mentoring for promoting girls' interests in STEM. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; GENDER STEREOTYPES; METAANALYSIS; SCIENCE; MODEL; ATTITUDES; STUDENTS; CHOICES; WOMEN; MATH; Mentoring; Online learning; Gender; STEM; Evaluation |
| Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 370 Education |
| Divisions: | Psychology and Pedagogy > Institut für Pädagogik > Lehrstuhl für Schulpädagogik (Prof. Dr. Heidrun Stöger) |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 31 Mar 2020 06:52 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Mar 2020 06:52 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/15793 |
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