Scientist of the week: evaluating effects of a teacher-led STEM intervention to reduce stereotypical views of scientists in young children

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Table 1. The fifteen STEM attributes.

Observant	Creative	Resilient	Curious	Tenacious
Open-minded	Imaginative	Communicator	Self-motivated	Collaborative
Committed	Patient	Passionate	Hard-working	Organised

Figure 1. An example of the scientist of the week resource.

Table 2. Categories of words produced.

Category	Description/Sub-category	Indicative examples
Stereotypes	Stereotypical words divided into General and Intelligence sub-categories. Further sub-categorisation of Intelligence into High Level, and General	White coat; curly hair; explosions Brain box; genius; smarty pants High level: Genius, brainbox, extremely clever General: Clever, intelligent, smart
Positive attributes	Words that describe positive qualities that were not the Target Attributes	Fascinated; energetic; accurate
Target attributes	The 15 attributes used in the SotW resources	See Table 1
Positive sentiments	Words that described feelings of positivity towards science	Tremendous; nice; life-saving
Science Words	Words that described things that scientists might know about	Plants; fingerprints; nature
Science Jobs	Careers	Chemist; engineer; scientist
Negative sentiments	Words that were non-stereotypical and negative	Stupid; bossy; annoying
Miscellaneous	Any word not deemed to fit in categories 1–8	Ravenclaw; pink

Figure 2. Types of words used to describe scientists, by gender.

Figure 3. Use of stereotypical words, by gender.

Figure 4. Types of words produced, pre-post (t1) intervention.

Figure 5. Sub-types of stereotypical words produced, pre-post (t₁) intervention.

Figure 6. Types of words produced, over time.

Figure 7. Types of stereotypical words produced, over time.

Figure 8. Number of ‘General Stereotypes’ words produced, by time.

Figure 9. Types of words used to describe scientists over time, by gender.