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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"STEM Careers"”.
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Minority Students in STEM Careers in the U.S. – the Role of AP Calculus
… those that have been underrepresented in S&E careers” (National Science Board [NSB], 2003, p. 13). More than a decade ago, the National Science Board (NSB) sounded an alarm regarding the projected decline in native-born science and engineering graduates with the aim of driving strategic …
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Beta Drift: Forecasting the Manifold Relationships between Students and their Pursuit of STEM Careers
… underrepresented students in their pursuit of a STEM career. Data selected from the High School Longitudinal Study beginning with the base year through the fourth wave were employed in a large-scale multinomial regression analysis. Anticipated <em>STEM occupation at the age of 30</em> was …
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A Case Study on the Life Trajectories of Women with Sensory and Mobility Disabilities in Stem Careers
… Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) workforce is desired for American global competitiveness, economic growth, national security, public health, environmental affairs, and maintenance of our quality of life. The talent pool available to sustain the available positions in STEM …
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“It’s a whole load of not giving up”: individual and organisational factors that contribute to UK based women achieving professor status in STEM
… are increasingly underrepresented in academic STEM careers. Of all Professors in STEM in the UK, only 22% are women. This thesis conducted an exploratory investigation into the individual and organisational factors that contribute to women’s successful career progression in academic STEM …
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The Experiences of Panamanian Afro-Caribbean Women in STEM: Voices to Inform Work with Black Females in STEM Education.
… OF PANAMANIAN AFRO-CARIBBEAN WOMEN IN STEM: VOICES TO INFORM WORK WITH BLACK FEMALES IN STEM EDUCATION By BEVERLY A KING MILLER B.A., Psychology, Nyack College, NY, 1985 M.A., Teaching, National-Louis University, IL, 1992 Ph.D., Multicultural Teacher and Childhood Education, University …
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The Impact of Scientific Journal Reading in the High School Classroom
… journal reading with the hopes of raising STEM career awareness and STEM identity. Using a pre- and post-survey design, the students establish baselines that are then compared to end results to show if the readings are impactful. The survey measures the students' outlook on science, as well …
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Utilizing Improvement Science to Advance a Stem Improvement Effort: Increase the Number of Underserved and Underrepresented Students Who Pursue A Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematic Education by Building Collective Capacity
… underrepresented (USUR) students from entering STEM careers in order to strategically plan their local STEM improvement effort. It offers the educational leader seven guiding principles, along with descriptions and illustrations of Improvement Science tools that include an improvement map, …
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Middle School Students' Attitudes toward Math and STEM Career Interests: A 4-Year Follow-Up
… attitudes toward math, intent to pursue STEM-related education and occupations, and STEM interest from middle school to high school. The data used in this study are from a larger, on-going National Science Foundation (NSF) grant-funded study that is investigating middle school students' …
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Applying Curriculum Treatments to Improve STEM Attitudes and Promote STEM Career Interest in Fifth Graders
… Federal Government has called for an overhaul of STEM education, saying that we as a nation must increase "opportunities for young Americans to gain strong STEM skills" (Office of Science and Technology Policy, 2013, p.1). Economically, these skills expand beyond those that make good doctors, …
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Middle School Girls' STEM Education: Using Teacher Influences, Parent Encouragement, Peer Influences, And Self Efficacy To Predict Confidence And Interest In Math And Science
… technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers. With the current and predicted future shortage of STEM workforce, it is more important than ever to encourage young women to enter these important fields of study. Using Bronfenbrenner’s Bioecological Model, possible predictors of …
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Astronomy Week: An Investigation Of The Implementation And Identity Formation Of Participants
… technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professionals and educational institutions are currently having difficulty keeping up with society's demand (Carnevale, 2011). Outreach efforts are a key strategy to encouraging young people to pursue STEM careers and evaluation methods need …
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Interactive Science Notebooks: Exploring the Extent Which Integrating a New Learning Tool Supports Self-Efficacy in Expressing Science Content Knowledge and Interest in Pursuing a STEM Related Career
… content knowledge and interest in pursuing a STEM-related career. This study, involving 25 participants, discusses the integration of interactive notebooks into two elementary school classrooms in a rural Kentucky community over 55 instructional days. Through an explanatory sequential …
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Assessing the Career Awareness of Early Adolescent Learners
In the next five years, millions of jobs in STEM-related occupations will be available, but with only twenty percent of college graduates earning bachelor's degrees in STEM fields, the pipeline problem persists. Research has demonstrated that students' career awareness significantly influences …
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Maintaining undergraduate females' interest in an engineering program
… with science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) related degrees, these women must have strong academic self-efficacy. Unfortunately, enrollment data from local and national data indicate fewer female college students than males interested in STEM disciplines. Three possible strategies for …
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CONTEXT AND THE AUTHENTIC SELF: THE IMPACT OF PERCEIVED STEM OBJECTIVITY NORMS ON SELF-CONCEPT BELIEFS AND WELL-BEING
… 1) beliefs about the culture of objectivity in STEM and 2) the impact of STEM objectivity norms on people’s anticipated experiences in those contexts. In Study 1, people consensually perceived STEM professionals as more objective than subjective and having greater capacity for mental agency …
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A narrative inquiry into key experiences affecting women's persistence in STEM fields following the bachelor's degree
… lived experiences of eight women who completed STEM degrees but did not pursue STEM careers. The aim of the study was to better understand the social, cultural, academic, and institutional factors that influenced their experiences. The theoretical framework was guided by critical feminist theory …
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The Career Goal-Setting Processes of Black Woman Engineering Majors
… technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) job market, huge disparities remain for both African Americans and women in those sectors of employment. Extant literature affirms that Black women encounter various challenges when pursuing STEM careers. More specifically, the research on …
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Comparing the Efficacy of Two Affirmation Interventions to Reduce Stereotype Threat Effects on Women’s Math Performance
… for affect, performance regret, or interest in STEM and non-STEM careers. These findings demonstrate how self-affirmation, particularly relational affirmation, facilitates mathematics problem-solving, independent of stereotype threat activation.</p>
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