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Summary
Summary
Breaking the Barriers shows how increased career awareness and exposure to mentors and role models can help students see science and math-related careers as desirable and viable options. It explains how test preparation, activity-based instruction, cooperative learning, and tutoring can help to improve academic outcomes.
Author Notes
Beatriz Chu Clewell and Bernice Taylor Anderson are the authors of Breaking the Barriers: Helping Female and Minority Students Succeed in Mathematics and Science, published by Wiley.
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A comprehensive and well-organized guide to intervention programs to help female and minority students in grades 4 through 8 succeed in mathematics and the sciences. The book has three major parts: (1) a description of the barriers to participation of female and minority students in mathematics and the sciences, and how to break these barriers in the middle school years; (2) a thorough and thoughtful examination of the strategies, structure, and operation of intervention programs for these students; (3) a conceptual and descriptive plan for developing, managing, evaluating, and disseminating programs; and a valuable list of programs and the materials available that describe curriculum or implementation methods. The authors also provide a review of the literature and research on the reasons why women and minorities are poorly represented in mathematics, science, and engineering. A clearly written, well-documented book, unique in its purpose. Most helpful to professional educators, curriculum specialists, and policymakers. M. H. Chaplin; Wellesley College
Table of Contents
| Part 1 Promoting Participation in Mathematics and Science |
| 1 Identifying Barriers to Female and Minority Participation |
| 2 Breaking the Barriers: The Critical Middle School Years |
| Part 2 Effective Intervention Strategies |
| 3 Changing Student Attitudes Toward Mathematics and Science |
| 4 Improving Academic Performance |
| Part 3 Intervention Models |
| 5 Conceptualizing Programs: A Systems Approach |
| 6 Determining Program Outcomes |
| Part 4 Guidelines for Successful Implementation |
| 7 Planning and Developing Programs |
| 8 Funding, Managing, and Evaluating Programs |
| 9 Disseminating and Institutionalizing Programs |
| AppAndixes |
| A Case Studies: Ten Effective Programs |
| B Resources: List of Programs and Materials |
| C Research on Inequities in Mathematics and Science |
