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Why Students Choose STEM Majors Motivation, High School Learning, and Postsecondary Context of Support
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In this article, a conceptual framework for understanding the entrance into science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors by recent high school graduates attending 4-year institutions was proposed.Abstract:
This study draws upon social cognitive career theory and higher education literature to test a conceptual framework for understanding the entrance into science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors by recent high school graduates attending 4-year institutions. Results suggest that choosing a STEM major is directly influenced by intent to major in STEM, high school math achievement, and initial postsecondary experiences, such as academic interaction and financial aid receipt. Exerting the largest impact on STEM entrance, intent to major in STEM is directly affected by 12th-grade math achievement, exposure to math and science courses, and math self-efficacy beliefs—all three subject to the influence of early achievement in and attitudes toward math. Multiple-group structural equation modeling analyses indicated heterogeneous effects of math achievement and exposure to math and science across racial groups, with their positive impact on STEM intent accruing most to White students and least ...read more
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Building Prealgebra Fluency Through a Self-Managed Practice Intervention: Order of Operations
TL;DR: The results did not conclusively show that one frequency-building intervention was superior to the other, but demonstrated that three of the four students produced a superior performance within the two intervention conditions when compared to baseline.
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The impact of STEM on the growth of wealth at varying scales, ranging from individuals to firms and countries: The performance of STEM firms during the pandemic across different markets
TL;DR: In this article , the authors analyzed the Zipf plots separately for the world's richest individuals with STEM and non-STEM graduation degree and found that STEM education contributes more to inequality than non-science education.
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Choosing a Business or Economics Study Program at University: The Role of the Economics Teacher
Michael Jüttler,Stephan Schumann +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors investigated the influence of the professional knowledge that students perceived in their economics teacher on their aspirations and choice of an economics study program and found that teachers' professional knowledge plays a significant role in a student's choice of a study program.
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Expanding Participation through Student-Designed Escape Rooms
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors describe secondary students' experience in a summer STEM camp in which they puzzled through and then designed escape rooms, and they were put into teams for the escape room activities.
Engaging pre-college minority students at a technical engineering research conference
TL;DR: In this article, a pre-college STEM intervention that occurs at a technical engineering research conference is presented. But the intervention consists of a mini workshop that has six components: (1) an introduction of graduate student mentors, (2) a general introduction to the engineering field of Smart Material and Structures through a PowerPoint presentation and live demonstrations of smart materials, (3) a low-cost design and build engineering activity that uses smart materials to demonstrate the applicability of the field of research, (4) an interactive tour of the conference hardware competition, (5) a small group
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