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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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Gender Gap Among High Achievers in Math and Implications for STEM Pipeline
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the mathematics gender gap among 15-year-old high achievers across ten countries/regions and found that a consistent male advantage among the top performers in mathematics was associated with some socio-demographic and schooling/attitudinal variables.
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Parents’ Beliefs about High School Students’ Spatial Abilities: Gender Differences and Associations with Parent Encouragement to Pursue a STEM Career and Students’ STEM Career Intentions
TL;DR: This article found that parents of young men thought their child had higher mental manipulation and navigation abilities than did parents of women, even after statistically controlling for adolescents' actual spatial abilities, and that these beliefs related to parents' encouragement of their child to pursue a STEM career as well as students' actual STEM major and career intentions.
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College Students’ Understanding of Fraction Operations
Brianna Bentley,Michael J. Bossé +1 more
TL;DR: The authors investigated college students' understanding of arithmetic fraction operations as defined by the Common Core State Standards in grades three through six Mathematics and found that college students have the same misunderstandings and misconceptions as elementary students in regards to fraction operations.
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Development and application of a scale to measure students’ STEM continuing motivation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a scale to measure students' STEM continuing motivation (CM) in accordance with the conceptualisation of CM by Maehr (1976) and developed a method to measure student's STEM continued motivation in the classroom.
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