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Item Opiniones y percepciones sobre los estudios superiores STEM: un estudio de caso exploratorio en España(Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2022-06-17) Verdugo-Castro, S.; Sánchez-Gómez, M. C.; García-Holgado, A.Los estereotipos de género se encuentran en las diferentes esferas en las que se desarrolla un individuo. Existen presiones sociales, sesgos, patrones y roles, creencias estereotipadas, que condicionan el comportamiento y la autopercepción de la persona. Esto también sucede en el momento de decidir qué estudios superiores cursar. Si bien se trata de una decisión que se dirige al futuro profesional y que debería estar marcada por las perspectivas futuras de carrera, en ocasiones no es así. No existen evidencias de que la brecha de género en el sector de la ciencia, la tecnología, la ingeniería y las matemáticas (STEM) esté producida por razones biológicas, naturales o cognitivas. Sin embargo, sí existen evidencias de que el ambiente, la cultura y los contextos en los que se desenvuelve la persona condicionan esta decisión. El objetivo del trabajo es identificar las influencias sociales, familiares, educativas y del grupo de iguales que existen sobre la opinión que los universitarios tienen sobre los estudios STEM. Para ello se ha aplicado un cuestionario, a partir de un estudio piloto exploratorio. En el piloto han participado 115 personas, todas ellas estudiantes de universidad. El estudio ha seguido una metodología cuantitativa, a partir de la construcción de cinco dimensiones (Ideología de Género, Actitudes, Intereses, Percepción y Autopercepción, y Expectativas sobre la Ciencia) y contrastes de hipótesis, para el instrumento. Los resultados refuerzan la hipótesis de que los diferentes ambientes que rodean a la persona condicionan que esta tenga o no estereotipos de género sobre los estudios superiores STEM. Principalmente, se deben tener en cuenta los apoyos recibidos, los referentes y quiénes han juzgado su decisión sobre los estudios cursados.Item Multimedia Analysis of Spanish Female Role Models in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics(MDPI, 2021-11-15) Verdugo-Castro, S.; García-Holgado, A.; Sánchez-Gómez, M. C.; García-Peñalvo, F. J.Horizontal segregation in the higher education framework is a problem that goes up in the work environment. Women are assuming traditional gender roles due to phenomena such as the threat of stereotyping, which prevents them from opting for higher studies in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). This research work arises within the project W-STEM, “Building the Future of Latin America: Involving Women in STEM”. The research aims to investigate women’s academic and professional development in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) through their personal experience in making career-related decisions. The research was developed by applying a qualitative method. During the year 2020, video semi-structured interviews were conducted with twenty-one women professionals in the STEM field. Of the twenty-one participants, six are linked to science, eight to technology, fifteen to engineering and one to mathematics. Due to their research lines, some of them are located in more than one STEM area, for example, in technology and engineering. These women were interviewed about their choice of studies and training, their jobs, professional achievements, family and social environment and their perspective on the gender gap in STEM. They all agree on horizontal segregation and consider it necessary to motivate girls and young women to study what they like. Furthermore, they all show passion for their workItem COEDU-IN Project: an inclusive co-educational project for teaching computational thinking and digital skills at early ages(IEEE, 2021-09-23) González-González, C. S.; Caballero-Gil, P.; García-Holgado, A.; García-Peñalvo, F. J.; Molina, J.; del Castillo-Olivares, J. M.; Candela San Juan, B.; García Cuesta, S.; Perdomo, I.; Caballero-Gil, C.; Gutiérrez-Vela, F.; Paderewski, P.; Violant Holz, V.; Gil Iranzo, R.; Ramos, S.Learning to program is the new literacy of the 21st century. Computational thinking, closely related to programming, requires thinking and solving problems with different levels of abstraction and is independent of hardware devices. The early childhood education stage provides teachers with the opportunity to lay the foundations for a comprehensive quality education using innovative tools and technologies. Educational robotics in early childhood education becomes a tool that facilitates the acquisition of knowledge to children, playfully, based on the principles of interactivity, social interrelationships, collaborative work, creativity, constructivist and constructionist learning, and a student-centered didactic approach, allowing in turn that student can acquire digital competencies and develop logical and computational thinking in an underlying way. This project explores the current state of teaching and learning computational thinking and programming in early childhood education in an inclusive manner. Moreover, the lack of diversity and inequality is particularly latent in science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields. Therefore, this work considers this problem and presents an inclusive coeducation approach to this new literacy, eliminating gender stereotypes and extending them to people with Down syndrome and hospitalized minors.Item Pilot study on university students’ opinion about STEM studies at higher education(ACM, 2020-10-21) Verdugo-Castro, S.; Sánchez-Gómez, M. C.; García-Holgado, A.; Bakieva, M.The percentages of women enrolled in higher education in the STEM sector are significantly lower than those of men. Overall, gender representation in science, technology, engineering and math-ematics degrees in Europe is not balanced. The Leaky Pipeline phe-nomenon, marked by gender stereotypes, makes the latent gender gap a relevant topic of study. Studies exist on academic performance, self-perception, self-efficacy, outcome expectations; however, study-ing gender stereotypes linked to STEM studies is also essential. It is necessary to know the social and family context in which young people have grown up, as well as their perception of such studies. To study gender stereotypes of university students about STEM studies, a questionnaire has been designed for empirical validation. For the design of the instrument, to be validated, items from other instruments have been taken and adapted to Spanish. After the design of the instrument, an online pilot study has been applied in the University of Salamanca, the University of Valencia and the Polytechnic University of Valencia. A total of 115 people answered the questionnaire. The results of the pilot study reveal that the study sample is not particularly marked by gender stereotypes about gender equality in STEM. Also, the sample is receptive to learning about science and applying it in their lives. On the other hand, the idea that women have to give up their studies and careers to look after their families and children is rejected. The idea that men are more interested in university studies than women is also rejected. At the same time, the sample is aware of the difficulties that women encounter in the STEM sector. Another optimistic point of the results is that there are no alarming data on bad experiences due to gender. In the future, the study will be replicated on a larger scale.Item The experience of women students in engineering and mathematics careers: a focus group study(IEEE, 2021-04-21) García-Holgado, A.; Verdugo-Castro, S.; Dominguez, A.; Hernández-Armenta, I.; García-Peñalvo, F. J.; Vázquez-Ingelmo, A.; Sánchez-Gómez, M. C.The gender gap is a problem that occurs in different forms in regions and countries around the world. It is a goal of large international organisations, governments, companies and other entities. Although it is not a new issue, it is important to continue studying it and seek mechanisms and strategies to attract and maintain more women in these areas. In particular, in the field of education and employment, the STEM areas present large gender gaps whose reduction would not only impact the equality of men and women but would also have an impact on the economy of the countries and on improving the economic situation of women. In this context, there are initiatives in Latin America working on this issue, but it is necessary to look more deeply into the elements that influence the decision to study careers in these areas. In this context, two focus groups have been held as roundtables with STEM women from different Latin American and European countries, to answer a series of questions centred on their motivations and decisions before and during their university studies. The results obtained have provided some inputs for defining gender equality action plans in ten Higher Education Institutions from Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Mexico. Furthermore, the results show similarities with previous studies involving STEM women with different Latin American profiles.Item Propuestas Europeas para Trabajar en la Brecha de Género en STEM: Un Análisis Sistemático(IEEE, 2020-10-01) García-Holgado, A.; Verdugo-Castro, S.; González-González, C. S.; Sánchez-Gómez, M. C.; García-Peñalvo, F. J.There is a critical gender gap in the STEM areas at all levels of education and the labour market. In this context, the European Union has included an increase in female participation in STEM as one of its priorities. It has funded a considerable amount of research projects, so a substantial number of institutions and organizations across Europe has worked on the same objective, but there are not an analysis of the proposals and achievements in all those research projects. This work aims to present an overview of the outputs from European research projects developed during the last five years related to the gender gap in STEMItem Retos para la inclusión de las mujeres en las carreras STEM(2021-01-29) González-González, C. S.; García-Holgado, A.La baja representación de las mujeres en las carreras STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) es un problema global que está siendo estudiado y afrontado a través de diversas iniciativas. En este trabajo se presenta un análisis de sobre los factores que influyen en la brecha de género en los estudios STEM, tanto en la elección de la carrera, la retención durante la misma, los apoyos e intervenciones que promueven la diversidad e inclusión. Asimismo, se destacan algunos de los principales retos e iniciativas que podrían ayudar a disminuir la brecha de género en las carreras STEM.Item Estudio piloto sobre la percepción de la brecha de género en estudios de ingeniería informática(Servicio de Publicaciones Universidad de Zaragoza, 2019-10-09) García-Holgado, A.; Vázquez-Ingelmo, A.; Mena, J.; García-Peñalvo, F. J.; González, C.; Sánchez-Gómez, M. C.; Verdugo-Castro, S.La brecha de género es uno de los principales problemas presentes en la sociedad actual. La igualdad, no solo de la mujer, sino de las diferentes identidades de género, forma parte de las prioridades de la Unión Europea, así como de gran parte de los países desarrollados. En particular, en las áreas de ciencias, tecnología, ingeniería y matemáticas (STEM), la brecha de género es claramente visible tanto en el ámbito académico como en el profesional. En educación superior, de acuerdo con un estudio a nivel mundial, tan solo el 35% de todos los estudiantes matriculados en estudios STEM son mujeres. Existen un gran número de iniciativas que trabajan en reducir la brecha de género en diversos contextos, desde educación infantil y primaria, hasta el ámbito empresarial. El presente trabajo presenta un estudio piloto que permite validar el cuestionario GENCE definido en trabajos previos. Concretamente, se ha aplicado en el Grado de Ingeniería Informática de la Universidad de Salamanca con el fin de conocer la percepción de sus estudiantes en relación con la brecha de género tras aplicar un conjunto de acciones para fomentar la diversidad en el ámbito de la ingeniería.