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This paper presents the design and validation process of a set of instruments to evaluate the impact of an informal learning initiative to promote Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) vocations in students, their families (parents), and teachers. The proposed set of instruments, beyond assessing the satisfaction of the public involved, allow collecting data to evaluate the impact in terms of changes in the consideration of the role of women in STEM areas and STEM vocations. The procedure followed to develop the set of instruments consisted of two phases. In the first phase, a preliminary version (v1) of the questionnaires was designed based on the objectives of the Girls4STEM initiative, an inclusive project promoting STEM vocations between 6 and 18 years old boys and girls. Five specific questionnaires were designed, one for the families (post activity), two for the students (pre and post activity) and two for the teachers (pre and post avitivity). A refined version (v2) of each questionnaire was obtained with evidence of content validity after undergoing an expert judgment process. The second phase was the refinement of the (v2) instruments, to ascertain the evidence of reliability and validity so that a final version (v3) was derived. In the paper, a high-quality set of good practices focused on promoting diversity and gender equality in the STEM sector are presented from a Higher Education Institution perspective, the University of Valencia. The main contribution of this work is the achievement of a set of instruments, rigorously designed for the evaluation of the implementation and effectiveness of a STEM promoting program, with sufficient validity evidence. Moreover, the proposed instruments can be a reference for the evaluation of other projects aimed at diversifying the STEM sector.
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In recent years, multiple initiatives have emerged, from public and private institutions, to promote interest in disciplines related to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), especially among girls from an early age. These initiatives play a fundamental role in showing the relationship that exists between careers and professions in STEM areas and the generation of benefits in society. In addition, they serve to increase the visibility of proximity STEM female referents (UNESCO,
The School of Engineering of the University of Valencia (ETSE-UV), in Spain, launched in 2011 a pilot program focused on increasing and retaining the number of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) female students in the institution (Botella et al.,
The problem of the gender diversity gap in STEM disciplines, and specially in the ICT field, has been considered and analyzed from different perspectives (see Bian et al.,
In 2019, the Girls4STEM initiative was launched in the ETSE-UV as an evolution of the pilot program. The main feature of the project is that the target audience comprises pre-university students from 6 to 18 years old, as well as their families and teachers (Benavent et al.,
The Girls4STEM initiative has been consolidated in two editions, being the edition 2021–2022 currently on-going. At this point, it is essential to have instruments with sufficient evidence of validity to evaluate with scientific rigor the impact of the initiative, as indicated by Tena Gallego and Couso (
STEM education takes place in both formal and informal contexts and both need to be connected to promote students' STEM skills. Interestingly, informal education can overcome many of the shortcomings of formal education (Herce Palomares et al.,
Evaluating the impact in informal learning contexts poses a set of particular challenges (Habig,
Three future directions for the measurement of the outcomes of informal STEM education actions are suggested in Grack Nelson et al. (
Another challenge related to the evaluation of the impact in informal STEM education is the broad range of projects and the large variety of methods used to conduct the evaluation. The most common form of evaluation is the user survey (Robinson and Murray,
With the increasing development and use of shared measures across the STEM education field, it comes the need for evaluators to better understand and assess instrument's technical qualities, in particular reliability and validity (Grack Nelson et al.,
Advantages and disadvantages faced in STEM informal education, main constructs to measure and some hints about the evaluation.
This study tackles good practices focused on promoting gender diversity in the STEM sector from a Higher Education Institution perspective. A high-quality example of a gender-based intervention study in informal STEM education is presented, with sufficient evidence of the validity of a set of rigorously designed instruments for the evaluation of the implementation and effectiveness of the project. In addition, these instruments can be a reference for the evaluation of other projects aimed at reducing the gender diversity gap in STEM areas. The process and the results presented in this paper contribute to the directions suggested by (Grack Nelson et al.,
To design a set of questionnaires to evaluate the impact of the Girls4STEM initiative (
To obtain evidence of content validity of the set of questionnaires.
To obtain evidence of reliability of the set of questionnaires after administration to a sample and to assess whether the answers in self-assessment questionnaires have the same meaning for the target audiences and the researchers who interpret the data.
As discussed in the introduction, the gender diversity gap in STEM has been already considered from different perspectives. In Spain, the percentage of enrolled female students in the different STEM disciplines is not uniform. For example, in 2020-2021, there is a percentage of enrolled female students of 59.9% in life-sciences. In the case of Engineering, the number of enrolled female students goes down to 26.1%, and to 14.2% in the case of Computer Science
The paper is organized as follows. Section 2 presents the two phases followed for the design and validation of the proposed set of instruments. Details about the samples used in each one of the phases are given and the data analysis approach followed is explained. The section finishes providing the results obtained in terms of content validity and reliability for the set of instruments. Finally, section 3 discusses the main findings of this research.
The present work uses a Mixed Methods Research (MMR) approach whereby both qualitative and quantitative data are collected and analyzed in the same study. MMR is often used in social and behavioral studies, such as education or health, to strengthen the reliability of qualitative data, allowing to put quantitative results in a context and enriching the findings and conclusions (Creswell and Clark,
The procedure consisted of two phases. First, in phase I, a preliminary version of the questionnaires was designed by the leading researcher based on the objectives of the Girls4STEM initiative, obtaining a first version (v1) of each one. Afterwards, 6 experts participating in the project and with experience in instrument construction and validation, modified and/or polished the items of the different questionnaires through an expert judgment process to obtain evidence of content validity, deriving the version (v2). In the second phase, phase II, the version (v2) instruments were distributed to a pilot-sample. Evidence of reliability was gathered and a final refinement process was carried out. Finally, the final version (v3) was obtained. All the questionnaires collected socio-demographic information and some indicators with a response format with open-ended, multiple choice answers and Likert scale options (1 to 5).
Phase I and phase II stages, and questionnaire versions obtained in each one of them.
In this subsection, the two-phase process for obtaining the instruments is detailed. Note that there are a total of five questionnaires targeting different groups: parents (post-activity), students-pre (prior to activity), students-post (post-activity), teachers-pre (prior to activity) and teachers-post (post-activity). The first instrument is a questionnaire for families, administered once the participation in the project is finished. It includes indicators on the overall impact of the initiative and on the individual (family member). An indicator is also provided on the possible improvement of the project and the promotion of STEM within the family. Secondly, there are two questionnaires for students that are applied before and after participating in the project. The pre questionnaire collects indicators on STEM interests, their perception of STEM competence and performance in STEM subjects. The post collects indicators on the degree of participation, the impact and possible improvement of the project. The teachers' questionnaires are also arranged in pre and post. The pre includes indicators on motivation and expectations of the project. The post questionnaire asks about their participation degree, the project impact, and suggestions for improvement.
The five questionnaires in their initial version (v1) were designed using as a reference the objectives of the Girls4STEM initiative. A set of items was generated to collect inputs from the subjects participating in the
In addition, after each set of items, suggestions were requested in open-ended questions when not in complete agreement and an open-ended question was provided at the end of each questionnaire, for any relevant considerations on the design of the instrument. The five
In this subsection, a description of the sample of each one of the phases is provided.
The final sample used for this study, eliminating those students who did not fill in the pre or post questionnaires, was 268 students, 18 teachers (16 female and 2 male teachers) and 113 family members (88 female and 25 male). Therefore, the sample was constructed by non-probability purposive sampling.
Regarding the education level, the table shows that the largest group was secondary education with students between 12 and 16 years old, accounting for 78% of the total sample. The educational level with the lowest representation in our sample corresponded to secondary education, aged 17–18 (0.03%).
Number of students who completed the pre and post questionnaires by gender and educational level.
16 | 15 | 1 | 32 | |
Secondary (12–16 years old) | 74 | 135 | 1 | 210 |
Secondary (17–18 years old) | 5 | 4 | 9 | |
Professional studies | 5 | 12 | 17 | |
Total | 100 | 166 | 2 | 268 |
Data have been processed according to the specific objectives of the research and the established phases. A description of the process followed in each phase is included in this subsection.
This section presents the results of the design and debugging process of the five questionnaires. Results of phase I provide evidence of content validity after the design process, for each of the five questionnaires. Results of the phase II include evidence of reliability of the scale items and an analysis of the performance of the qualitative items.
First, the results related to the specific objectives 1 and 2 of the paper are presented.
Design of the questionnaires (v1).
Parents | Overall impact (1–3) | 2 multiple choice |
1 dichotomous (with open-ended question) | ||
Impact on parents (4–7) | 4 Likert (1–5 points) | |
Satisfaction and project improvement (8–10) | 1 Likert (1–5 points) | |
2 open-ended questions | ||
Students-pre | STEM interests (1–2) | 1 dichotomous (with open-ended question) |
1 Likert (1–5 points) | ||
Achievement in STEM subjects (3) | 1 open-ended question | |
Students-post | Degree of participation (1–2) | 2 open-ended questions |
Impact on students (3–6) | 4 Likert (1–5 points) | |
Satisfaction and project improvement (7–9) | 1 Likert (1–5 points) | |
2 open-ended questions | ||
Teachers-pre | Motivation toward the project (1–2) | 2 open-ended questions |
Expectations (students) (3–5) | 3 open-ended questions | |
Expectations (teachers) (6) | 1 open-ended questions | |
Teachers-post | Degree of participation (1–2) | 2 open-ended questions |
Impact on students (3–5) | 3 open-ended questions | |
Impact on teachers (6–13) | 1 open-ended question | |
1 multiple choice | ||
6 Likert (1–5 points) | ||
Satisfaction and project improvement (14–15) | 1 Likert (1–5 points) | |
2 open-ended questions |
After the design of the questionnaires in their initial version (v1), the questionnaires were subjected to expert judgment to reach evidence of content validity and to refine the questionnaires, if necessary.
Inter-rater reliability (Cronbach's alpha).
Parents | Representativeness | 0.262 |
Relevance | 0.406 | |
Formulation | 0.895 | |
Students-pre | Representativeness | 0.8 |
Relevance | 0.6 | |
Formulation | 0.944 | |
Students-post | Representativeness | 0.987 |
Relevance | 0.981 | |
Formulation | 0.273 | |
Teachers-pre | Representativeness | 0.935 |
Relevance | 0.946 | |
Formulation | 0.359 | |
Teachers-post | Representativeness | 0.69 |
Relevance | 0.92 | |
Formulation | 0.942 |
Mean (parents).
Representative | 5.83 | 6 | 5.83 | 6 | 5.67 | 6 | 6 | 5.67 | 6 | 6 |
Relevance | 5.83 | 6 | 5.67 | 6 | 5.67 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
Formulation | 6 | 4 | 5.83 | 5.83 | 4.17 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
Mean (students-pre).
Representative | 5.67 | 5.33 | 5.33 |
Relevance | 5.67 | 5.67 | 6 |
Formulation | 6 | 4.17 | 4.50 |
Mean (students-post).
Representative | 3.17 | 3 | 6 | 5.83 | 5.67 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
Relevance | 2.50 | 2.83 | 5.83 | 6 | 5.50 | 6 | 5.67 | 5.83 | 5.83 |
Formulation | 5.83 | 6 | 5.67 | 5.83 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
Mean (teachers-pre).
Representative | 5.67 | 3.17 | 5.67 | 5 | 5.67 | 6 |
Relevance | 5.67 | 3 | 5.67 | 5 | 5.5 | 6 |
Formulation | 5.83 | 5.50 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5.83 |
Mean (teachers-post).
Representative | 5.67 | 4.67 | 5.67 | 5.5 | 6 | 6 | 5.67 | 6 | 5.83 | 5.83 | 5.67 | 6 | 5.83 | 6 | 5.5 |
Relevance | 5.67 | 3.83 | 5.67 | 5.67 | 6 | 6 | 5.83 | 6 | 6 | 5.83 | 5.83 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 5.5 |
Formulation | 6 | 3.7 | 5.83 | 5.83 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5.17 | 5.83 | 6 | 6 | 5.83 | 6 | 6 |
Once phase I was completed, all five questionnaires were available in version (v2), with sufficient evidence of content validity in all of them.
In order to collect data for phase II of this study, the pre-questionnaires were administered to students and teachers before interacting with the STEM experts, so gender and professional career aspects have not yet been discussed. The post-questionnaires for students, teachers and families (parents) were administered after each school submitted the STEM expert biography video to the initiative. All the questionnaires were delivered using the Microsoft forms platform. In the following, results related to the specific objective 3 of the paper are analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively.
The aim was to ascertain the evidence of reliability and to refine the questionnaires if necessary. To this end, the results were analyzed quantitatively.
Design of the questionnaires (v2).
Parents | Overall impact (1–3) | 2 multiple choice | Qualitative |
1 dichotomous (with open-ended question) | Qualitative | ||
Impact on parents (4–7) | 4 Likert (1–5 points) | Quantitative | |
Satisfaction and project improvement (8–10) | 1 Likert (1–5 points) | Quantitative | |
2 Open-ended questions | Qualitative | ||
Students-pre | STEM interests (1–2) | 1 dichotomous (with open-ended question) | Qualitative |
1 Likert (1–5 points) | Quantitative | ||
Self-efficacy: perceived achievement (3) | 1 Likert (1–5 points) | Quantitative | |
Achievement in STEM subjects (4) | 1 open-ended question | Qualitative | |
Students-post | Degree of participation (1–2) | 2 open-ended questions | Qualitative |
Impact on students (3–6) | 4 Likert (1–5 points) | Quantitative | |
Satisfaction and project improvement (7–9) | 1 Likert (1–5 points) | Quantitative | |
2 open-ended questions | Qualitative | ||
Teachers-pre | Motivation toward the project (1) | 1 open-ended question | Qualitative |
Expectations (students) (2–4) | 3 open-ended questions | Qualitative | |
Expectations (teachers) (5) | 1 open-ended question | Qualitative | |
Teachers-post | Degree of participation (1–3) | 2 open-ended questions | Qualitative |
1 multiple choice answer | Qualitative | ||
Impact on students (4–6) | 3 open-ended questions | Qualitative | |
Impact on teachers (7–14) | 1 open-ended question | Qualitative | |
1 multiple choice answer | Qualitative | ||
6 Likert (1–5 points) | Quantitative | ||
Satisfaction and project improvement (15–17) | 1 Likert (1–5 points) | Quantitative | |
2 open-ended questions | Qualitative |
Summary of the Cronbach's alpha results in phase II.
Parents | 5 | 112 / 113 | 0.85 | 4 | 0.55 | 0.85 |
5 | 0.73 | 0.80 | ||||
6 | 0.73 | 0.80 | ||||
7 | 0.67 | 0.81 | ||||
8 | 0.63 | 0.83 | ||||
Students-pre | 4 | 32 / 32 | 0.49 | 2A | 0.42 | 0.25 |
(Primary) | 2B | 0.05 | 0.59 | |||
3A | 0.43 | 0.24 | ||||
3B | 0.25 | 0.45 | ||||
Students-pre | 6 | 218 / 236 | 0.82 | 2A | 0.56 | 0.79 |
(Secondary) | 2B | 0.52 | 0.80 | |||
2C | 0.66 | 0.77 | ||||
3A | 0.55 | 0.79 | ||||
3B | 0.56 | 0.79 | ||||
3C | 0.61 | 0.78 | ||||
Students-post | 5 | 220 / 220 | 0.8 | 3 | 0.67 | 0.73 |
4 | 0.65 | 0.74 | ||||
5 | 0.58 | 0.76 | ||||
6 | 0.36 | 0.82 | ||||
7 | 0.67 | 0.73 | ||||
Teachers-post | 6 | 14 / 14 | 0.65 | 9 | 0.33 | 0.63 |
10 | 0.18 | 0.66 | ||||
11 | - | - | ||||
12 | 0.07 | 0.68 | ||||
13 | 0.71 | 0.46 | ||||
14 | 0.66 | 0.47 | ||||
15 | 0.49 | 0.61 |
George and Mallery (
The goal is to provide meaningful feedback about the respondents' thought processes when responding to survey items. Then, it is necessary to gather evidence that survey items and response options are well understood by respondents Wolf et al. (
q1. If the item was understood and corresponded to the measured dimension. In this way, it is possible to have evidence of face validity i.e., to recognize the pertinence of the evaluation system by analyzing the answers given. The researchers indicated yes or no. In case of a negative answer, the reasons were noted down.
q2. If there were responses that could suggest presenting the item in another format or with some change in its presentation, in order to improve it. If they considered it appropriate, they suggested the reasons.
q3. Observations, if they considered any comment necessary, when they had answered “no” in any of the previous items.
Qualitative analysis (v2).
Parents | Overall impact | 1 | 6 | 6 | No answer “nothing” or “other” |
2 | 6 | 6 | No answer “other” | ||
3 | 6 | 6 | |||
Satisfaction and project improvement | 9 | 6 | 6 | ||
10 | 6 | 6 | |||
Students-pre | STEM interests | 1 | 6 | 6 | |
Achievement in STEM subjects | 4 | 6 | 3 | Modify to closed response (multiple choice) | |
Students-post | Degree of participation | 1 | 6 | 6 | |
2 | 6 | 3 | Modify to closed response (multiple choice) | ||
Satisfaction and project improvement | 8 | 6 | 6 | ||
9 | 6 | 6 | |||
Teachers-pre | Motivation toward the project | 1 | 6 | 6 | |
Expectations (students) | 2 | 6 | 6 | ||
3 | 6 | 6 | |||
4 | 6 | 6 | |||
Expectations (teachers) | 5 | 6 | 6 | ||
Teachers-post | Degree of participation | 1 | 6 | 6 | |
2 | 6 | 3 | Modify to closed response (multiple choice) | ||
3 | 6 | 6 | |||
Impact on students | 4 | 6 | 6 | ||
5 | 6 | 6 | |||
6 | 6 | 5 | Add: “justify your answer” | ||
(some subjects indicate “positively” without explanation) | |||||
Impact on teachers | 7 | 6 | 6 | ||
8 | 6 | 6 | |||
Satisfaction and project improvement | 16 | 6 | 6 | ||
17 | 6 | 6 |
In general terms, it can be seen that all the responses to the items building the questionnaires met the objective for which they were designed, since all six researchers agreed that, after analyzing all the results, there was no response that did not meet the indicator. They also agreed that the presentation format was adequate in most of the items, but some needed to be revised. Fifty percent of the researchers proposed to modify the type of response in three items: i) in the initial questionnaire for students, item 4 (performance in STEM subjects); ii) in the final questionnaire for students, item 2 (degree of participation); and iii) in the final questionnaire for teachers, item 2 (degree of participation). In addition, other comments were raised in item 1 and 2 of the overall impact on parents, since some of the multiple-choice answers were not chosen, as indicated in the table. Following the parallel analysis, the researchers participated in a debriefing until a consensus was reached on the changes needed. The results and conclusions of the discussion were as follows:
The research presented in this paper aims at contributing to the state of the art of informal STEM education by describing the process of how to obtain evidences of reliability and validity of a set of instruments. This set of instruments comprises five questionnaires for the evaluation of the impact of the
Parents questionnaire: reformulation of items 2 and 5, given their means in the formulation dimension.
Students-pre: reformulation of items 2 and 3, given their means in the formulation dimension. In addition, a new item on perceived achievement in STEM subjects has been added.
Students-post: deletion of items 1 and 2, due to their CVRs values and their low means in representativeness and relevance. Two new items have been constructed from open-ended questions to determine the degree of participation (given that former items 1 and 2 were dealing with this metric). The order of items 4 and 5 has been changed, following the proposal in the open-ended questions.
Teachers-pre: deletion of item 2, due to its CVR, in addition to the fact that the means in representativeness and relevance pointed to a need for reformulation.
Teachers-post: reformulation of item 2 due to its representativeness, relevance and formulation means. Former item 2 has been split into two new items.
Despite the modifications, all the questionnaires in version (v2) measure the dimensions proposed in
Once the objective of designing the instruments in phase I has been achieved and sufficient evidence of content validity has been obtained in this expert judgment, the analysis of the questionnaires in version (v2) has been carried out in a pilot sample. The pilot sample contains students from all pre-university academic cycles (primary, secondary), is gender balanced in line with the inclusive spirit of the project, and the schools are located in diverse contexts (from small urban centers to large cities).
The results regarding the evidence of reliability in the applied sample suggest that there is sufficient internal consistency of the Likert-type items included in each of the questionnaires. After the qualitative analysis of the remaining items, it is concluded that they have been answered in their entirety, in accordance with the purpose for which they were designed, so that the administration of the questionnaires to the pilot sample allows us to conclude that the objective of phase II has been achieved. In spite of this, it is necessary to modify some of the response formats. Specifically, in the initial student questionnaire, item 4 has changed from an open-ended question to a multiple-choice response to avoid the broad range of responses that has been observed when processing the qualitative analysis. The same happens with item 2 of the final questionnaire for students and teachers. In addition, item 6 of the teachers-post questionnaire adds the suggestion “justify your answer” to improve the quality of the gathered data. As a result of phase II, the version (v3) of the five questionnaires has been obtained, where the students-pre questionnaire, and the teachers-pre and teachers-post questionnaires have been modified as discussed above with respect to version (v2).
The set of questionnaires, in their final version (v3), are a valuable resource for the evaluation of the
This set of instruments has been designed and validated with the aim of overcoming the challenges faced by the evaluation of informal STEM education actions. On the one hand, the instruments incorporate features in the evaluation that are often overlooked, such as improvement of the initiative, with measures at different times, e.g., pre and post action for students and teachers. On the other hand, completing the questionnaires does not require excessive time due to their well-designed formulation, which maximizes the likelihood that they will be completed properly by the participants, including primary students from lower courses which might be less familiar with filling on-line forms without help. The fact that they can be delivered on-line, simplifies the posterior data analysis and contributes to the sustainability of the initiative. In addition, preliminary reliability and validity evidence conducted by a multidisciplinary team of researchers has been provided, which to the best of our knowledge, positions this work as a core reference in informal STEM education contexts. Although the initiative Girls4STEM is located in Spain, the process followed to achieved the set of instruments in version (v3) can be applied to any informal evaluation initiative with a low-cost implementation. Moreover, the set of instruments is openly offered for review or administration in other educational experiences in informal education, so that particular features of different cultural contexts can be incorporated via each initiative's objectives. Nevertheless, it is desirable to continue researching and collecting new evidence in on-going and future editions of the initiative, in order to continue improving the rigor of the questionnaires, being applied to other samples or adapted for administration to other STEM educational projects.
The original contributions presented in the study are included in the article/
Ethical review and approval was not required for the study on human participants in accordance with the local legislation and institutional requirements. Written informed consent from the patients/ participants or patients/participants legal guardian/next of kin was not required to participate in this study in accordance with the national legislation and the institutional requirements.
MH-P designed the research. CB-M, EV, and XB collected the data. MH-P, CB-M, EV, EL-I, AF, XB, and SR analyzed the research. MH-P, CB-M, and EL-I searched the literature. MH-P, CB-M, EV, and EL-I wrote the manuscript. All authors contributed to the article and approved the submitted version.
This research was partially supported by the project FCT-20-15904 from the Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (FECYT) and the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación and the project GV/2021/110 from Generalitat Valenciana.
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
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The authors would like to thank all the entities that support the Girls4STEM initiative: the Vice-Principal of Equality, Diversity and Sustainability (University of Valencia); the Equality Unit (University of Valencia); the Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit (University of Valencia); and the Center for Training, Innovation, and Educational Resources in the Scientific, Technological, and Mathematical fields (CEFIRE STEM, Conselleria of Education, Research, Culture, and Sports of the Generalitat Valenciana), as well as the School of Engineering from the University of Valencia. Special thanks to all the primary and secondary schools that have participated in the three editions, the STEM experts, the project's sponsors, and last but not least, all the colleagues working in the project.
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