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The role of the teaching assistant: Female role models in the classroom
Amanda L. Griffith,Joyce B. Main +1 more
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The authors used a dataset of first-year engineering students from a selective research-intensive public university to examine the impact of same-gender teaching assistants on course grades and major field choice.About:
This article is published in Economics of Education Review.The article was published on 2021-12-01. It has received 3 citations till now.read more
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Choosing an engineering major: A conceptual model of student pathways into engineering
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Addressing nonfinancial barriers to college access and success: Evidence and policy implications
TL;DR: This article reviewed the literature on non-financial interventions for improving college access and success ranging from discrete and narrowly defined efforts to comprehensive and multifaceted programs and systemic-level solutions, and concluded that nonfinancial barriers to college are an important possible explanation for socioeconomic, racial, gender, and other gaps in college access.
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Reinforcing the STEM pipeline in vocational-technical high schools: The effect of female teachers
TL;DR: In this article , the authors examined the effect of exposure to a female VTE teacher on STEM pipeline persistence from secondary to post-secondary level and found that having at least one female teacher in secondary STEM-VTE programs increases overall enrollment in STEM higher education programs by 2.1 percentage points, primarily driven by women choosing postsecondary VTE diplomas in STEM fields.
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Gender and Competition
TL;DR: This article found that women tend to respond less favorably to competition than men and that gender differences in competitiveness tend to result from differences in overconfidence and in attitudes toward competition, and they concluded that what could and should be done to encourage qualified males and females to compete.
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Teachers and the Gender Gaps in Student Achievement
TL;DR: The authors examined whether assignment to a same-gender teacher influenced student achievement, teacher perceptions of student performance, and student engagement, and found that assignment to the same teacher significantly improved the achievement of both girls and boys.
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Do Faculty Serve as Role Models? The Impact of Instructor Gender on Female Students
TL;DR: The authors found that female students with female mentors were more likely to succeed in science and engineering programs, while male students avoided male-dominated fields due to biases against women and the presence of female faculty may mitigate these effects.
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Sex and Science: How Professor Gender Perpetuates the Gender Gap
TL;DR: In this paper, Carrell et al. discuss the role of the professor gender gap in discrimination in higher education, and present a method to counter the bias of the teacher gender gap.