| Title | Organization/Source | Description |
| A Better Way to Teach? | Jeffrey Mervis, Science | A recent study suggests science teaching could be improved by including more group work and interaction rather than lectures. |
| Addressing the STEM Challenge by Expanding Specialty Math and Science High Schools | The Information Technology & Innovation Foundation | This report discusses the important role that specialty math and science high schools play in producing high school graduates with a deep knowledge and passion for math and science. |
| Assessing Media Influence | Dr. Jocelyn Steinke | This study focuses on the role of potential influence of the media, as socializing agents that can affect children’s perceptions of women in STEM and their attitudes toward STEM and STEM careers. |
| Basics About Disabilities and Science and Engineering Education | Ruto Sevo | A section of this book looks at the need for inclusion and recruitment of students with disabilities to science and engineering fields, and gives examples of resources for faculty to improve instruction. |
| Broadening Participation in Undergraduate Research: Fostering Excellence and Enhancing the Impact | Council on Undergraduate Research | Engaging undergraduate students in research, scholarship, and creative activity is a proven and powerful practice for enhancing educational outcomes and expanding frontiers of knowledge. |
| Change the Equation's Vital Signs Reports | Change the Equation | These state-by-state reports on STEM learning are aimed at correcting the record in places where state data may give an inaccurate picture of student achievement, as well as celebrating the good news and pointing to the challenges ahead |
| Changing the Conversation: Messages for Improving Public Understanding of Engineering | National Academies Press | Changing the Conversation provides actionable strategies and market-tested messages for presenting a richer, more positive image of engineering. |
| Cross-National Patterns of Gender Differences in Mathematics: A Meta-Analysis | N.M. Else-Quest et al. | A worldwide study of nearly half a million boys and girls found no significant gender gap in math ability. |
| Degrees of Success: Bachelor's Degree Completion amount Initial STEM Majors | HERI and UCLA | Analyzing hundreds of thousands of college freshmen, researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles' Higher Education Research Institute have found good news and bad news about students who are interested in studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics. |
| Diversity in Aviation Maintenance | Article by Paul M. Foster, Ed.D. | Dr. Foster discusses increasing the participation of women and underrepresented minorities in aviation maintenance Programs. Study findings and recommendations are included. |
| DO-IT Publications | University of Washington | These publications promote the success of individuals with disabilities in STEM academic Programs and careers. |
| Educational Attainment in the United States, 2009 | U.S. Census Bureau | These data tables provide information on degree attainment in the U.S. by age, gender, and race/ethnicity. The tabulations show that among people in the 25-29 age group, 9% of women and 6% of men held either a master`s, professional (such as law or medical), or doctoral degree. This holds true for White, Black, and Hispanic women. Among Asian men and women of this age group, there was no statistical difference. |
| Encouraging Minority Students to Pursue Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Careers | US Commission on Civil Rights | This report weighs in on whether minority students who pursue science degrees leave those disciplines in disproportionate numbers because they are admitted to colleges where their academic preparation falls below the institution's median. |
| Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation: America's Science and Technology Talent at the Crossroads, | National Academy of Engineering | This report analyzes the rate of change and the challenges the nation currently faces in developing a strong and diverse workforce and suggests that the federal government, industry, and post-secondary institutions work collaboratively with K-12 schools and school systems to increase minority access to and demand for post-secondary STEM education and technical training. |
| False Start: A Missed Opportunity for Women and Girls in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics in the Race to the Top Awards | NAPE | NAPE analyzes the quality of the states’ responses to and reviewers’ scoring of the priority regarding underrepresented populations in STEM in their Race to the Top applications. |
| Female Teachers’ Math Anxiety Affects Girls’ Math Achievement | S. Bielock et al. | The results of this research indicate that girls are getting the idea that they are not supposed to be good in math from a surprising source -- their female elementary school teachers. |
| Formulas for America’s Workforce I & II, and New Tools. | National Science Foundation, Research on Gender in Science and Engineering program | NSF has released several publications that detail its investment in projects to improve the representation of girls and women in STEM from mid-2002 through 2005. |
| Gaining Momentum Losing Ground | Tapping America's Potential: The Education for Innovation Initiative | 15 of America’s most prominent business organizations joined
together to express their deep concern about the ability of the United States to sustain its scientific and technological leadership in a world where newly energized foreign competitors are investing in the capacity for innovation. |
| Gaps in Learning: Gaps in Earning | American Association of University Women | This map shows the earnings ratio between college-educated women and men who work full time, year-round, based on data from the Current Population Surveys. 2006-7
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| Gender Differences at Critical Transitions in the Careers of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Faculty Committee | | This report presents new and surprising findings about career differences between female and male full-time, tenure-track, and tenured faculty in science, engineering, and mathematics at the nation's top research universities. Much of this congressionally mandated book is based on two unique surveys of faculty and departments at major U.S. research universities in six fields: biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, mathematics, and physics |
| Good Jobs Now and for the Future | Department of Commerce | This report profiles U.S. employment in the STEM fields and offers an inside look at workers who are driving our nation's innovation and competitiveness and helping America win the future with new ideas, new companies and new industries. |
| Impact on STEM Education: An Overview of Sisters in Science™, LLC | Sisters in Science™, LLC | This report addresses the need for urban girls and boys in K-12 to gain equitable access to science education. |
| Increasing Capacity and Quality in Afterschool Programs: Lessons learned from New York | (AYPF) | BYA seeks to improve outcomes for young people ages 9-14 by increasing their participation in high quality activities during the afterschool, evening, and weekend hours. The initiative is designed to address two key issues in the afterschool field: the need for high quality programs and the reduced participation of young people as they enter adolescence. |
| Increasing the Success of Minority Students in Science and Technology | American Council of Education | This report analyzes the success of African American and Hispanic students pursuing postsecondary studies in STEM.
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| Learning Science in Informal Environments: People, Places, and Pursuits | National Research Council | Learning Science in Informal Environments draws together disparate literatures, synthesizes the state of knowledge, and articulates a common framework for the next generation of research on learning science in informal environments across a life span. |
| Listening to Latinas: Barriers to High School Graduation | The National Women's Law Center (NWLC) and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) |
This Report discusses the challenges that Latina students face in graduating from high school. |
| Middle School Mathematics Professional Development Impact Study | (USDOE) | This report is the second major experimental study by the USDOE to find that a high-quality professional-development program failed to translate into any dramatic improvements in student learning. A two-year study of efforts to improve teachers' instructional skills in early reading reached a similar conclusion in 2008. |
| Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory | Cornell University Press | This report discusses how, as increasing numbers of women pursue research careers in science, many who choose to have children discover the unique difficulties of balancing a professional life in these highly competitive (and often male dominated) fields with the demands of motherhood. |
| New Partnerships for Learning Publication | Harvard Family Research Project | The new report from the Harvard Family Research Project entitled "Promising Practices in Integrating School and Out-of-School Time Program Supports" aims to help school and Out of School Time (OST) program leaders, decision-makers, and funders, to understand and implement effective OST-school partnerships for learning. The report describes the benefits of these partnerships and presents research, strategies and examples of the different principles of OST-school partnerships |
| Out Before the Game | Public Agenda | Hispanic leaders talk about what's needed to bring more Hispanic youngsters into STEM professions. |
| Postsecondary Participation Rates by Sex & Race/Ethnicity: 1974-2003 | National Center for Education Statistics | Using 30 years of data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) School Enrollment Supplement (October 1974 to October 2003) NCES examines participation in postsecondary education among women and men and among different racial/ethnic groups. |
| Preparing STEM Teachers: The Key to Global Competitiveness | AACTE | This publication profiles a selection of STEM teacher preparation Programs at AACTE member institutions. |
| Professional Women and Minorities and Salaries of Scientists, Engineers and Technicians | Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology | This report provides a good list of comprehensive and authoritive statistics on women and minority salaries in STEM. |
| Professional Women, Vital Statistics | DPE Research Department | A valuable listing of statistics about women in the workplace. |
| Project TestDrive | National Science Digital Library | Project TestDrive was a national research study on the classroom effectiveness of the online K-12 science, technology, engineering and math resources from the National Science Digital Library. During the 2007-08 school year, teachers selected, used, and evaluated the online resources in their classroom.
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| Proposition 209 and the Decline of Women in the Construction Trades | The Discrimination Research Center and Equal Rights Advocates | This report explores the history of women in the construction industry. |
| Questioning a White Male Advantage in STEM: Examining Disparities in College Major by Gender and Race/Ethnicity | Catherine Riegle-Crumb and Barbara King | The authors analyze national data on recent college matriculants to investigate gender and racial/ethnic disparities in STEM fields, with an eye toward the role of academic preparation and attitudes in shaping such disparities. |
| Recruitment and Retention of Women Graduate Students in Computer Science and Engineering: Results of a Workshop Organized by the Computing Research Association | Computing Research Association | This report is a compendium of the experience and expertise of workshop participants, rather than the result of a full-scale, scholarly study into the range of issues. |
| Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future | The National Academies | This book examines the erosion of the U.S. preeminence in science and engineering and offers ways to reverse the trend. |
| Roadways & Rampways | American Association for the Advancement of Science | Roadmaps and Rampways was developed from a research study on students with disabilities who pursued science or engineering degrees and successfully completed internships in their chosen fields. |
| Science Day Summary | STEM Equity Pipeline State Team | The Ohio state team has shared some interesting statistics regarding the 10,695 pre-college STEM students who participated in The Ohio Academy of Science's State Science Day during the years 1996-2008. |
| Science in the Preschool Classroom: A Programmatic Research Agenda to Improve Science Readiness | D. Greenfield et al. | This research paper demonstrates that science is one of the areas in which children show the least learning growth during their preschool years. |
| Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education Issues and Legislative Options | Congressional Research Service Report for Congress | This report presents data on the state of STEM education and examines the federal role in promoting STEM education. |
| Steady as She Goes? Three Generations of Students through the Science and Engineering Pipeline | The John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University | This Report presents a comprehensive analysis of American students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) transitioning from high school to the labor force using 30 years of data on the STEM workforce. |
| STEM Teachers in Professional Learning Communities: From Good Teachers to Great Teaching | NCTAF | This report documents what happens when STEM teachers work together in professional learning communities to improve teaching and increase student achievement. |
| Stemming the Tide: Why Women Leave Engineering | University of Wisconsin | This report reveals that three-fourths of women who have left the field of engineering did so for reasons other than or in addition to family responsibilities. |
| Strengthening High School Chemistry Education Through Teacher Outreach Programs:
A Workshop Summary to the Chemical Sciences Roundtable | National Research Council | This is a summary of workshop presentations which addressed the current status of high school chemistry education; provided examples of public and private outreach Programs for high school chemistry teachers; and explored ways to evaluate the success of these outreach Programs |
| Successful K-12 STEM Education: Identifying Effective Approaches in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, | National Research Council | This report identifies key factors that contribute to effective STEM education, and it recommends that science instruction receive the same level of priority as math and reading. |
| Symposium: Unraveling the Double Bind: Women of Color in STEM | Harvard Business Review | This work surveys research on undergraduate and graduate-level women of color in STEM fields and assesses the experience of community college transfers and undergraduates in those fields. |
| The Athena Factor: Reversing the Brain Drain in Science, Engineering, and Technology | Harvard Business Review | This report maps the career trajectories of women with science, engineering and technology credentials working in the private sector. |
| The Opportunity Equation: Transforming Mathematics and Science Education for Citizenship and the Global Economy, | Carnegie-IAS Commission on Mathematics and Science Education | This Report offers first steps toward a long-range vision that takes into account the practical challenges of upgrading math and science education, makes sense for the schools we have today and hope to achieve tomorrow, and puts us on a path toward delivering the mathematics and science learning our young people need. |
| The Pathways to Apprenticeship: Roadblocks to Registration of Minorities and Women in Building Trade Union Apprenticeship Training Programs in Northeast Illinois | Society of Women Engineers | This report examines the reasons for and attempts to change the exclusion of women and minorities from coveted train union apprenticeship training Programs. |
| The Persistent Glass Ceiling in the Chemical Industry | CPST | This report studies the executives and boards of directors of the nation’s largest chemical companies and shows that women account for a small fraction of people in these key positions. |
| The STEM ED Caucus | Congressman Vern Ehlers (R-MI) and Congressman Mark Udall (D-CO) | This caucus seeks to strengthen STEM education by providing a forum for Congress and the science, education, and business communities to discuss challenges, problems, and solutions related to STEM education. |
| Trends in Educational Equity of Girls and Women: 2004 | National Center for Education Statistics | This report assembles a series of indicators that examine the extent to which males and females have access to the same educational opportunities and reap the benefits from their educational experiences. |
| Why So Few? | AAUW | In an era when women are increasingly prominent in medicine, law and business, why are there so few women scientists and engineers? This report presents in-depth yet accessible profiles of eight key research findings that point to environmental and social barriers - including stereotypes, gender bias and the climate of science and engineering departments in colleges and universities - that continue to block women's participation and progress in science, technology, engineering, and math. |
| Women and Girls in STEM | AAUW | This position paper discusses the status of women in STEM and makes recommendations for reducing the barriers that prevent women from pursuing STEM academics and careers. |
| Women in STEM: A Gender Gap to Innovation | US Department of Commerce | Women are vastly underrepresented in STEM jobs and among STEM degree holders despite making up nearly half of the U.S. workforce and half of the college-educated workforce. That leaves an untapped opportunity to expand STEM employment in the United States, even as there is wide agreement that the nation must do more to improve its competitiveness. |
| Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering | NSF | Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering is a report that provides information about the participation of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities in science and engineering education and employment. Information on the site is organized by topic and group. Links to additional data sources and reports are provided. This site is updated as new information becomes available. Tables and figures in the report are current as of the date shown. An update of the formal report is issued every two years. |
| Women's Participation in Science Has Increased, But Agencies Need To Do More To Ensure Compliance with Title IX | General Accounting Office | This report addresses how various federal agencies ensure that grant recipient institutions comply with Title IX in math, engineering, and science, what data show about women's participation in these fields, and what promising practices exist to promote their participation. |