{"title":"Design, implementation and evaluation of an online community to foster girls' interest and participation in STEM","authors":"D. Schimke","doi":"10.1145/1329112.1329124","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Due to low participation rates of girls and women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), getting more girls involved in STEM is an important issue. For my dissertation, I am designing, implementing and evaluating an online community for high school girls to foster their interest and participation rate in STEM. My work has three stages: (1) Study the reasons for the girls' lack of interest in STEM; (2) Use the results of this study to design and implement an online community for girls; and (3) Evaluate the effectiveness of the online community and its acceptance among girls.","PeriodicalId":403907,"journal":{"name":"Doctoral Consortium Papers of the 2007 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2007-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Doctoral Consortium Papers of the 2007 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1329112.1329124","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Due to low participation rates of girls and women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), getting more girls involved in STEM is an important issue. For my dissertation, I am designing, implementing and evaluating an online community for high school girls to foster their interest and participation rate in STEM. My work has three stages: (1) Study the reasons for the girls' lack of interest in STEM; (2) Use the results of this study to design and implement an online community for girls; and (3) Evaluate the effectiveness of the online community and its acceptance among girls.