Long Term Effects Of A Middle School Engineering Outreach Program For Girls: A Controlled Study

Abstract

Reach was one of her recent evaluation clients. Her teaching and research interests include assessment in higher education, creating a culture of evaluation use, evaluation capacity building, and educational technology. Chrysanthe Demetry, Worcester Polytechnic Institute CHRYSANTHE DEMETRY is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Center for Educational Development and Assessment at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She co-founded Camp Reach and has co-directed the program from 1997-98 and 2003-present. Her teaching and research interests include use of educational technology, classroom formative assessment, development of intercultural sensitivity, and K-12 engineering outreach. She received the ASM Bradley Stoughton Award for Young Teachers in 2000 and WPI's Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2002.

Changing the Face of Engineering: Can Photovoltaic Engineering Lead the Charge?

“…Efforts are being made to create outreach initiatives exposing younger girls to engineering. 51 PV is certainly not the only example but can do its part in limiting gender incongruence through the design and implementation of programs both inside and outside of the classroom. Bandura, 1986, emphasized the importance of salient role models in changing the behavior and motivation of individuals.…”