Before making any changes in your own practice to encourage girls into STEM, it’s valuable to find out what are the drivers and/or issues that might reduce girls interest in STEM at your school.

As part of the Girls into Global STEM (GIGS) project, an on-line questionnaire and ‘Draw A Scientist’ activities were developed to try to find any key drivers/issues that were encouraging and/or dissuading girls from STEM subjects.

We recommend that you develop, run and analyse a short questionnaire with a group or class of girls with whom you could continue to work with at your school.

You are welcome to:

- View and carry out the Draw a Scientist activity

- Develop your own questions using an online tool such as Survey Monkey or develop a paper-based questionnaire

- Use any of the questions developed for the GIGS project

- Select questions from any of the recommended reading list for this module. The report Why Europe’s girls aren’t studying STEM? contains a good range of questions.

We will visit surveys again in Module 3