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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Ability beliefs"”.
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The roots of gender gaps: investigating the development of gender stereotypes about intelligence
Women are consistently underrepresented in certain careers—not just in mathematics and science but also in fields such as philosophy and music composition. In my dissertation, I focus on a recently discovered factor that may contribute to this imbalance: Women are culturally stereotyped as being …
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Graphic Communications Teachers' Concerns and Beliefs Regarding Their Online Teaching of Graphic Communications Hands-On Classes
… has exposed the impact of concerns and beliefs on a teacher's decision to adopt online teaching methods, and in particular for Graphic Communications teachers, the extent to which their concerns and beliefs influence whether or not they decide to teach online. The potential problem that …
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Who’s brilliant – men or women? Measuring implicit stereotypes about gender across development
… said to require high levels of intellectual ability (“brilliance”). These fields may be unwelcoming to women because of a pervasive “brilliance = men” stereotype. This hypothesis is termed the Field- specific Ability Beliefs (or FAB) Hypothesis (e.g., Leslie, Cimpian et al., 2017; Storage et …
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"The frequency of ""brilliant"" and ""genius"" in teaching evaluations predicts the representation of women and African Americans across academia"
… Specifically, we measured field-by-field variability in the emphasis on these intellectual qualities by tallying college students’ use of the words “brilliant” and “genius” in over 14 million reviews on RateMyProfessors.com. Consistent with prior work, this simple word count predicted both …
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Leveraging digital transformation to address women's challenges in the technology industry
… industry. Grounded in the field-specific ability beliefs theory, this study employs a qualitative research design. 15 in-depth interviews were conducted with women professionals across various technology sectors of New Zealand and Australia. Participants, with an average of ten years of …
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Fragile Strength: Math Self-Efficacy of High Achieving Girls
<p>Math gender gap research shows girls’ math self-efficacy to be correlated with their interest in pursuing higher levels of math education and STEM career opportunities. Most math gender gap studies have used only quantitative approaches, thereby missing the opportunity to gain deeper …