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Xiao-Yin Chen – ProQuest LLC, 2024
It is essential that all students who are interested in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) have the motivational supports to persist in their STEM career trajectories. "STEM role models," or successful individuals in STEM, can be powerful tools to motivate college students towards STEM careers, particularly if students…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Academic Persistence, Role Models, College Students
Rosa M. Banda; Alonzo Flowers – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2024
The influential role of familĂa remains a crucial aspect to understand Latinxs' success in postsecondary schooling. Rather than relying on a deficit lens, this study employs an asset-based lens to gain insight into the paternal influence that assists Latinas' persistence to degree attainment in engineering. More specifically, this study examines…
Descriptors: Fathers, Parent Influence, Daughters, Academic Persistence
Hye Rin Lee; Teomara Rutherford; Paul Hanselman; Fernando Rodriguez; Kevin F. Ramirez; Jacquelynne S. Eccles – Research in Higher Education, 2024
Community colleges provide broad access to a college degree due to their less expensive tuition, greater course time offerings, and more open admission policies compared to four-year universities as reported (Juszkiewicz, 2015). These institutions have great potential to diversify who chooses STEM, such as engineering. Such diverse representation…
Descriptors: Role Models, Video Technology, Web Sites, Social Media
Melisa A. Medina Cruz – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Higher education institutions' success relies on student retention and graduation rates, especially among underrepresented minority (URM) groups, where persistent disparities exist. This dissertation focuses on URM Division I student-athletes, often overlooked despite their significant influence within universities. Notably, academic success gaps…
Descriptors: College Athletics, College Students, Student Athletes, Academic Persistence
Amanda S. Haber; Sona C. Kumar; Kathryn A. Leech; Kathleen H. Corriveau – Child Development, 2024
This study explores how caregiver-child scientific conversation during storybook reading focusing on the challenges or achievements of famous female scientists impacts preschoolers' mindset, beliefs about success, and persistence. Caregiver-child dyads (N = 202, 100 female, 35% non-White, aged 4-5, [function] = 0.15) were assigned to one of three…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Caregivers, Caregiver Role, Story Reading
Shirley Hunter – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Although African Americans report the lowest graduation rates in the United States--approximately 35% at undergraduate level--the rate is lower for African American males (30%) than African American females (37%). The performance of African American males in higher education is influenced by faculty role models and faculty expectations of their…
Descriptors: African Americans, College Graduates, African American Attitudes, Teacher Effectiveness