"We know that issues related to race/ethnicity, gender, and physical disability have an impact on educational opportunity and participation. While we've made progress addressing these issues, with that progress has come new and different problems. Yesterday's assumptions and solutions have moved us to where we are today. However, if we adhere unquestioningly to yesterday's assumptions and solutions, they will become tomorrow's problems."

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What's New

• Predicting PhD Attainment: The Efficacy of the GRE reports the results of a study of 2000 students which found GRE: V and GRE: Q scores did not predict PhD attainment for women while for men higher GRE: Q scores and to a lesser degree GRE: V scores were tied to lower PhD attainment.
• Should We Be Using GREs In PhD Admissions? A one page overview of some things to consider when you are thinking about having people take the GREs.

Other Recent Publications

• Improving Underrepresented Minority Student Persistence in STEM provides a series of recommendations to reduce institutional barriers and increase student ability to persist in STEM.
• Ten Years of Engagement, Capacity and Continuity: Reflections on a Trilogy for Student Success is a reflection on the roles the EEC Trilogy ( Full Report and An Overview) has been playing in education and what its future might be.
• BeyondRigor.org is our newest website. It provides easy to use tips to design, implement and assess the quality of research and evaluations over diverse populations (and all populations are diverse).
• Deconstructing Engineering Education Programmes: The DEEP Project to Reform The Mechanical Engineering Curriculum describes an effort to reduce and reorder the prerequisite structure linking courses to offer greater flexibility for students and to make the discipline more able to attract and retain a diverse community of students.
• The Effect Of Context On Student Engagement In Engineering explores ways of teaching to render the fundamentals of engineering more accessible to all students.
• Measuring Diversity: An Evaluation Guide for STEM Graduate Program Leaders provides advice about the evaluation of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) diversity programs at the graduate school level and includes information about the framework and context for evaluation of STEM diversity programs, general indicators, and other experimental design tips.
• Measuring Diversity: Related Tools
  • Tool 1: Getting to Your Goal: Are You on Target? an interactive tool to help institutions look at the progress they’ve made toward their diversity goal and see the numbers they will need annually in order to achieve that goal within their timeframe.
  • Tool 2: Looking at Enrollment Yield Applicants, Admits, and New Enrollees an online tool to help institutions compute and interpret the enrollment yield for different departments and for demographically different groups of students.
  • Tool 3: Approximating Underrepresented Minority (URM) Ph.D. Student Retention: A Quick-and-Dirty Tool helps institutions quickly compute approximate retention rates. This tool does NOT involve tracking cohorts of individual students and will not give exact retention rates. It will, however, give approximate year-to-year student retention rates and trends that can inform decision making.
  • Tool 4: Where Are They? Tracking Students’ Progress Toward Their Degree offers prototypes of two different types of tracking tools to help institutions monitor individual students’ progress. These customizable tracking tools can be downloaded as an Excel spreadsheet or as an Access database.
• www.FairerScience.org: Campbell-Kibler Associates website with tools and strategies to help researchers and advocates for women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) more effectively communicate their findings in ways that allow the public to understand, evaluate and use them. FairerScience also has a blog that comments on funny and not so funny news and information directly (or even indirectly) related to FairerScience.

Tools for Educators & Others

• NYC Organizations Addresses Critical Gaps in Services to Youth Who Drop Out. An overview of Community Pathways to Success (CEPS) and its evaluation. Patricia Campbell, Peter Kleinbard, Vivian Vazquez, with Annie Sykes Moyer and TJ Volonis, 2008 (pdf). The final CEPS evaluation report can be found here (pdf).
• Building Evaluation Capacity Guide 1: Designing a Cross-Project Evaluation and Building Evaluation Capacity Guide 2: Collecting and Using Data in Cross-Project Evaluations by Beatriz Chu Clewell and Patricia B. Campbell.
  
• Good Schools in Poor Neighborhoods: Defying Demographics, Achieving Success by Beatriz Chu Clewell and Patricia B. Campbell with Lesley Perlman. (Sorry folks this one costs money, $24.00; but it is worth it. You can learn more and order it here: https://www.amazon.com/Good-Schools-Poor-Neighborhoods-Demographics/dp/087766742X .)
  
• What Can I Do? Making Engineering Classrooms More Effective for Women (and Men) Students; Patricia B. Campbell. 2007 (.pdf)
• How Can I Help? Working with Engineering Faculty to Change Classrooms; Patricia B. Campbell. 2007 (.pdf)
• What Do We Know? Seeking Effective Math and Science Instruction; Beatriz Chu Clewell and Patricia B. Campbell and associates. 2005(.pdf)
• Picking The Best:A Guide To Finding The Math And Science Programs And Practices That Work For Your Students; Patricia B. Campbell and Lois-ellin Datta. (.pdf).
• Overcoming Test Anxiety:Measurement and Statistics for Lawyers and Others; Patricia B. Campbell.
• Making A Splash:A Guide to Getting Your Programs, Products and Ideas Out; Patricia B. Campbell, Christina Boyer and Kathryn Acerbo-Bachmann. (.pdf)
• Moving Into The Mainstream:From "Equity A Separate Concept"  To "High Quality Includes All"; Patricia B. Campbell and Nancy Kreinberg.
• Out Of The Office, Into The Schools: Lessons Learned From Collecting And Using Student And Teacher Data; Patricia B. Campbell.
• Where's The Overlap? Mapping The SAT9 And TAAS 4th Grade Test Objectives; Lesli Hoey, Patricia B. Campbell and Lesley Perlman.
• Equity Means All: Rethinking The Role Of Special Programs In Science And Math Education; Patricia B. Campbell and Lesli Hoey. (Available from National Institute for Science Education).

Refuting Myths & Stereotypes

• Taking Stock: Focusing on “where we’ve been, where we are, and where we’re going”, the authors examine white and minority women ’s progress in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (SMET) over the past decade. Beatriz Chu Clewell and Patricia B.Campbell. (Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering,vol.8,pp.255 –284,2002, Reprinted with permission.) (.pdf)
• Girls Are... Boys Are... : Myths, Stereotypes & Gender Differences.  Patricia B. Campbell and Jennifer N. Storo. (.pdf)
• "It’s Not A School Where You Should Go If You Don’t Want To Learn": Philadelphia Students Talk About Their Elementary Schools; Lesley K. Perlman and Patricia B. Campbell.
• The Gender Wars in Education; Susan McGee Bailey and Patricia B. Campbell.
• No Virginia, There Is No Math Gene; Patricia B. Campbell.

Changing Classrooms

• Making It Happen:Pizza Parties, Chemistry Goddesses & Other Strategies that Work for Girls and Others; Patricia B. Campbell and Jennifer N. Storo. (.pdf)
• Whose Responsibility Is It?Making Coeducation Work in Math & Science: The Administrator's Role; Patricia B. Campbell and Jennifer N. Storo. (.pdf)
• Why Me? Why My Classroom?The Need for Equity in Coed Math and Science Classes; Patricia B. Campbell and Jennifer N. Storo. (.pdf)

Technology

Women in Information Technology:

What brings workers to Information Technology and why do they stay?; Patricia B. Campbell and Lesley K. Perlman (Word). The social context of IT employment and the feelings, attitudes and opinions of IT professionals; Paula Leventman and Meghan Finley (Word).

• Sticking with My Dreams: Defining and Refining Youth Media in the 21^ST Century; Appendix: An Annotated List of Programs; Patricia B. Campbell, Lesli Hoey and Lesley K. Perlman. (This material also available in Adobe pdf format: Sticking with My Dreams; Appendix ).
• Going Web-Based? Helping School Administrators Make Informed Choices About Web-Based Courses; Patricia B. Campbell, Lesley K. Perlman, Earl N. Hadley. (.pdf)
• Dealing With Educational Inequities: Are Web-Based Courses An Answer?; Patricia B. Campbell, Lesley K. Perlman, Earl N. Hadley. (.pdf)
• Are Web-Based Courses Right For My Child?; Patricia B. Campbell, Lesley K. Perlman, Earl N. Hadley.(.pdf)
• Teachers, Students and CLASS: Some Voices From the Field; Lesley K Perlman and Patricia B Campbell. (.doc -- a microsoft word document)