Breaking the Barriers Helping Female and

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.

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.

Part One: Promoting Participation in Mathematics and Science

1. Identifying Barriers to Female and Minority Participation

2. Breaking the Barriers: The Critical Middle School Years

Part Two: Effective Intervention Strategies

3. Changing Student Attitudes Toward Mathematics and Science

4. Improving Academic Performance

Part Three: Intervention Models

5. Conceptualizing Programs: A Systems Approach

6. Determining Program Outcomes

Part Four: 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

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Breaking the Barriers Helping Female and Minority Students Succeed in Mathematics and Science

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