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[Progress Reports] [Technical Reports] [Conference, Workshop, and Meeting Papers]

[Journal and Book Papers] [Video Library]

GoT in the News

  1. Keeping Girls On Track, CSC News, NC State University, July 06, 2005
  2. Girls on Track Camp Participants Gain New Perspective on Math, Science, CSC News, NC State University, July 6, 2004.
  3. Where the Girls Aren't. News and Observer, Raleigh, August 2, 2002
  4. Online Tools for Schools, NC State University, The Office of School Services in the College of Education, 2001
  5. --------. (Autumn, 2001). Middle school girls use campus program to study on track math. NC State: The Alumni Magazine, 73(4), 4.
  6. Ronaldo, R. (2000, July 14). Camp adds up to fun: Program builds middle-school girls' interest in math. News and Observer. Pp. 1B & 7B.
  7. Middle-School Girls Use Campus Program to Stay on Track in Math, NC State News Services, July 3, 2001
  8. GoT In the news on WB WLFL-22 - News at 10 - 6/25/01 [News clip (200 kbps)] [News clip (56 kbps)]
  9. MentorNet - Triangle East Consortium to Prepare Teachers in Effective Instructional Technology Use , 2000
  10. Girls on Track on WRAL5 - News at 5 - 7/11/00 [News clip (300 kbps)] [News clip (28 kbps)]
  11. Girls on Track on WRAL5 - News at 5 - 7/19/99 [News clip (200 kbps)] [News clip (20 kbps)]
  12. Math Camp Aims to Put Girls on Track for Math-Related Careers, NC State News Release, July 13, 1999
  13. Computer Scientist's Research to Aid in Middle School Girls' Education, Engineering News On-Line, College of Engineering, NC State University, May 24, 1999.
  14. Center Receives Math Education Grant from NSF, Bulleting Online, NC State University, February 19, 1999.

Presentations and Demos

  1. Berenson, S; Michael, J; Vouk, M. Examining Time as a Factor in Young Women’s IT Career Decisions. Presented 2005 at Oxford.
  2. Berenson, S; Vouk, M; Michael, J; Greenspan, P; Person, A. Women and Information Technology:A Seven Year Longitudinal Study of Young Women From Middle Grades Into College. Presented April 13, 2004 at the annual American Educational Research Association.
  3. Cavey, L., & T. Barnes, "Teachers on Track with Technology - Problem-based mathematics teacher preparation," 12th International Conference of the Society for Information Technology & Teacher Edcuation (SITE 2001), Orlando, FL, March 8, 20001. [Presentation] [Paper] [Handout] [Excel Example]
  4. M. Vouk (January 1999), Distinguished Lecture Series Speaker, "Network-Based Learning," Florida Atlantic University.
  5. at Instructional Technologies EXPO 1999, Fall 1999, CONNECT on-line, Number 32, ISSN-1045-4608
  6. Berenson, S. (November, 1999). What's cool when you are 13? Presentation to the Women and Mathematics Network. Meredith College.
  7. M. Vouk, "Teaching Math Using Web - Some Quality of Service Issues," Annual Meeting of the IFIP Working Group on Mathematical Software (IFIP/TC2/ WG 2.5), Purdue University, May 1999.

First Annual GoT Professional Development Workshop Meredith College, Raleigh, NC, 7/12 - 7/16/1999.

  1. T. Robinson and V. Knight, "Gender Equity (2)," First Annual GoT Professional Development Workshop, Meredith College, Raleigh, NC, 7/14/1999. [Audio+HiResSlides, 6 kbps],
  2. S. Berenson, "GoT Philosophy," First Annual GoT Professional Development Workshop, Meredith College, Raleigh, NC, 7/12/1999. [Audio+HiResSlides, 6 kbps], [Video+MidResSlides, 20 kbps], [Video, 300 kbps]
  3. V. Knight and T. Robinson, "Gender Equity (1)," First Annual GoT Professional Development Workshop, Meredith College, Raleigh, NC, 7/12/1999. [Video, 300 kbps]

Progress Reports

  1. S. Berenson, M. Vouk and T. Robinson, Annual GoT Report (1), July 1999
  2. S. Berenson, M. Vouk and T. Robinson, Annual GoT Report (2), July 2000
  3. S. Berenson, M. Vouk and T. Robinson, Annual GoT Report (3), Nov 2001

Technical Reports

  1. Vouk, M; Berenson, S; Michael, J; Tombes, S (2004). Women and Information Technology (WIT): A Comparative Study of Young Women from M. S. through H. S. and into College. Presented 2004 at the NSF's Principal Investigator's Meeting.
  2. Howe, A.C. (October, 2001). Girls on Track: Evaluation report - Year 3. Raleigh, NC
  3. Howe, A.C. (June, 2000). Evaluation Report: Girls on Track 1999-2000. Raleigh, NC.
  4. Mathematics Teachers on Track with Technology, CRMSE, 2000

Conference, Workshop and Meeting Papers

  1. Berenson, S. (2003) Girls On Track. Presentation at the annual American Association of Univeristy Women Conference.
  2. Howe, A. C, & Berenson, S. B. (2003). High Achieving Girls in Mathematics: What's wrong with working hard? Paper presented at the 27th annual North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education.
  3. Longest, M. L., & Berenson, S. B. (2001). Factors Affecting Middle School Girls' Mathematical Success: A Statistical Study. Poster presented at the Twenty-third Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Snowbird, UT.
  4. Berenson, S.B. (2001). Research to realization: Increasing women's participation in science, engineering, mathematics, and technology. Symposium at the Annual Meeting of AERA. Seattle, WA.
  5. Berenson, S. B., Vouk, M., & Robinson, T. (2001). Girls on Track: Developing a model to predict girls' success in advanced mathematics from middle school to college. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Education Research Association [AERA], Seatle, WA.
  6. Cavey, L. O., & Barnes, T. M. (2001). Mathematics teachers on track with technology. Paper presented at the Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education, Orlando, FL.
  7. Barnes, T., Cavey. L., & Smith, N. (September 2000). Girls on Track: Using Technology as a Tool for Community Investigations. Paper presented at the Annual Technology Exposition, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.
  8. Berenson, S. B., Barnes, T. M., Cavey, L. O., Knight, V., & Smith, N. H. (2000). Keeping girls on track: Middle grade girls modeling community problems-An experiment in progress. Paper presented at the joint meetings of the Mathematical Association of America and American Mathematical Society. Washington, D.C.
  9. Smith, N., & Solazzo, B. (October, 2000). Confidence and Achievement in Fast Track Middle School Girls. Poster. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Tucson, AZ.
  10. Smith, N. H., Cavey, L. O. (2000). Sports algebra. Presented at the annual Sonja Kovalevsky Day, Meredith College, Raleigh, NC.
  11. Longest, M. L., & Smith, N. H. (2001). Sports Algebra Used in Girls on Track. Presentation given at the North Carolina Council of Teachers of Mathematics Regional Conference, Raleigh, NC.
  12. Knight, V., Cavey, L., Barnes, T., & Smith, N. (January, 2000). Girls on Track: Middle Grade Girls Modeling Community Problems - An Experiment in Progress. Presented at the Joint Mathematics Meetings of AMS-MAA-MER, Washington D.C.
  13. Clark, M.R., & Berenson, S. B. (October, 2000). Girls on Track: Pursuing Advanced Math from Middle School to College. Poster to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Tucson, AZ.
  14. Berenson, S. (November, 2000). Algebra Investigations of Community Problems for Girls on the Fast Math Track. Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics - Eastern Regional Conference, Springfield, MA.
  15. Cavey, L., Barnes, T., Smith, N., & Droujkova, M. (1999). Mathematical Explorations of Urban Problems. Presentation at the Joint Meeting of School Science and Mathematics and the North Carolina Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Greensboro, NC.
  16. Berenson, S. (August, 1999). Girls on Track: Community Problems Integrating Mathematics, Science, and Technology. Paper presented at the Association of Teacher Educators in Europe, Working Group II. Liepzig, Germany.
  17. Lyu MR, Y.S. Moon, W.K. Kan, and M.A. Vouk, "Web-Based Education Techniques: Workflow, Collaboration, and Quality of Service,'' 1998 Quality in Teaching and Learning Conference (QTL98), Hong Kong, December 11-12 1998.

Journal and Book Papers

  1. Howe, A. & Berenson, B. (2003) "High achieving girls talk about their attitudes, experiences, and expectations in mathematics," Chapter in a book sponsored by NCTM
  2. Labbe, T, Mohammed, A., Streck, J.P. Vouk, M.A. (2001). "Alcatel - North Carolina State University virtual laboratory for end-to-end quality of service engineering," Alcatel Telecommunications Review, Volume for 3rd Quarters 2001, pp. 227-231, 2001
  3. Clark, M.R., Berenson, S.B., Cavey, L.O., and Staley, K. (2001) A Comparison of Ratios and Fractions and Their Roles as Tools in Proportional Reasoning. Unpublished manuscript to be submitted for publication in the Journal of Mathematical Behavior.
  4. Robinson, T.L., & Howard-Hamilton, M.F. (2000).The convergence of race, ethnicity, and gender: Multiple identities in counseling. Saddle River, NJ: Merrill Prentice Hall.
  5. Singh M.P. and M.A. Vouk (1999), "Network Computing," in John G. Webster (editor), Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, New York, Vol. 14, pp. 114-132
  6. Vouk, M. (1999). Network-Based education, Journal of Computing and Information Technology. 7(3), 197-211
  7. Vouk M.,R., Klevans, L., & D.L. Bitzer, (1999). Workflow and end-user quality of service issues in web-based education, IEEE Trans. On Knowledge Engineering, 11(4), 673-687.
  8. Berenson, S. B., Droujkova, M., Cavey, L., Smith, N., & Barnes, T. Girls on Track with Information Technology. Meridian [http://www.ncsu.edu/meridian/2000wint/math/index.html]. 3 (1),

MS Theses and PhD Dissertations

  1. Barnes, T.M. (2002), Fault-Tolerant Teaching, PhD Dissertation in preparation.
  2. Longest, M.P. (2002). Investigation of mathematical strategies used by fast track middle school girls on proportional reasoning tasks. Data from Girls on Track Camp 2001 are currently being analyzed for thesis preparation.
  3. Allain, A. (2001). Developing an Instrument to Measure Proportional Reasoning in Middle Grade Girls. A thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of North Carolina State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Mathematics Education. Raleigh, NC.
  4. Smith, N. H. (May, 2000). Confidence and Achievement in Fast Track Middle School Girls. A thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of North Carolina State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Mathematics Education. Raleigh, NC.
  5. Jennifer Sellers (M.S, NCSU, 1998, "Fault-Tolerant Teaching of Discrete Math Concepts")

Video Library (password required)

  1. First GoT Summer Workshop and Camp - 1999.
  2. Second GoT Summer Workshop and Camp - 2000.
  3. Third GoT Summer Workshop and Camp - 2001.

Girls on Track is a joint project between NCSU, Meredith College, Wake County Public Schools, and North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. The project is supported in part by the National Science Foundation, the IBM Corporation (SUR Program), and the Eisenhower Program- UNC MSEN

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