disciplines, including engineering, reflects a procedural,individualistic, and separated way of knowing, which poses a significant challenge to youngwomen’s intellectual pursuit in these disciplines [18].Research Design Our study is an ethnographic study, a qualitative research approach that explores thesubtle yet important cultural aspects and processes in society. In an ethnographic study, theresearcher typically investigates a culture-sharing group in a natural setting over a prolongedperiod of time by collecting primarily observational and interview data” [19]. Ethnography is anaturalistic and holistic inquiry based on multiple data collection methods, using inductiveanalysis, and drawing cultural interpretations as final outcomes
, p. 14]. Face to facediscussions can carry over to the virtual setting through online discussion boards. Blog entries aswell as and question/answer forums can clarify points of confusion from in-class conversations.Students have more time to reflect and answer questions posed online than in the classroom.Perhaps most importantly, blended learning requires students to work more on their own for theonline portion of the class. This active learning has been shown to yield greater test performanceand subject mastery [4, pp. 22-23]. Flipped classrooms are a subset of blended learning, but the rapid increase in theirpopularity make them worthy of examination. The underlying idea for a flipped classroom is thatteachers assign students to