In preparation for Panel on Curricular Issues and Solutions

Panelists Paula Heron: Physics Education Group, UW Physics
Patricia McGowan: State Director of MESA

Read one of the following: (first is on gender issues, second on minority issues)

  1. Chapter on "The experiences of Women in SME Majors", from "Talking about leaving : why undergraduates leave the sciences", by Elaine Seymour and Nancy M. Hewitt. pages 240-276.
    This book is based on extensive interviews at several institutions with students who both stayed in SME majors ("non-switchers" and those who left after originally planning to major in SME ("switchers")

    Copies of assigned chapter on reserve at Odegaard and Physics Libraries plus:
    Status: Undergraduate Reserve
    LC148.2 .S49 1997 CHECK THE SHELVES 4 HOUR RESERVE

  2. Articles on "Race-Ethnicity, SES, Gender and language proficiency Trends in Mathematics Achievement: An Update," by W. F. Tate and "Mathematics, Muticutural Education, and Professional Development," by Christine Sleeter, in Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 1997, vol 28 pp. 652-696

    Copies of these two articles are on reserve in Odegaard and Physics libraries, plus
    Holdings: Suzzallo Periodicals Display Shelves CALL NUMBER: QA11.A1 J68 LIB HAS: v.1- (1970-) Incomplete v.25; LIBRARY USE ONLY; LATEST ISSUES ON DISPLAY

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