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Dicke, Anna-Lena; Safavian, Nayssan; Gao, Yannan; Eccles, Jacquelynne S. – Grantee Submission, 2019
To address high STEM college attrition rates, it is critical to understand what motivates undergraduates' pursuit of STEM. The current study investigated the association of a diverse socio-demographic background with different types of perceived chemistry career affordances (prosocial, other communal, and agentic) and their association with…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Student Attitudes, Scientific Attitudes
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Safavian, Nayssan; Dicke, Anna-Lena; Gao, Yannan; Eccles, Jacquelynne – Grantee Submission, 2021
To better understand underrepresented undergraduates' motivation for pursuing their major, we examined undergraduates' articulated explanations for their major choice and its association with their motivational beliefs within an introductory chemistry course. Students' (n=503, 68% female, 56% First-Generation College-Going, 34% Hispanic)…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Disproportionate Representation, Majors (Students), Chemistry
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2016
These proceedings contain the papers of the 13th International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2016), October 28-30, 2016, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), co-organized by the University of Mannheim, Germany, and endorsed by the…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Foreign Countries, Constructivism (Learning), Technological Advancement