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Kristin Michod Gagnier; Steven J. Holochwost; Melissa Ceren; Kelly R. Fisher – Grantee Submission, 2024
American students continue to perform poorly on national and international assessments of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) competencies, and achievement gaps spanning racial/ethnic and socioeconomic lines emerge early and widen over time. Scholars and practitioners agree that expanding access to high-quality STEM education…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, STEM Education, Disproportionate Representation, Scientific Attitudes
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Granero-Gallegos, Antonio; Baena-Extremera, Antonio; Escaravajal, Juan Carlos; Baños, Raúl – Education Sciences, 2021
The aims of this study were: (i) to provide evidence of reliability and validity regarding the dimensionality of the Spanish version of two correlated subscales measuring Academic Self-Concept (ASC); (ii) to analyze factorial invariance according to sex and the educational level; (iii) to analyze a higher-order model from the two ASC subscales;…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Self Concept Measures, Academic Achievement, Self Efficacy
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Watson, Joshua C.; Lenz, A. Stephen – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2020
The Inventory of New College Student Adjustment (INCA) was developed to assist college student personnel in assessing adjustment difficulties experienced by first-year college students. A sample of 474 first-year college students (282 women, 59%; 192 men, 41%) enrolled in a first-year seminar course at a medium-sized 4-year university in the…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Student Adjustment, Student Personnel Workers, College Freshmen