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Shi, Ying – Grantee Submission, 2018
This paper uses administrative North Carolina data linked from high school to college and national surveys to characterize the largest contributor to the STEM gender gap: engineering. Disparities are the result of differential entry during high school or earlier rather than postsecondary exit. Differences in pre-college academic preparation…
Descriptors: Females, Engineering, Professional Personnel, Gender Differences
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May, Alison L.; Stone, C. Addison – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2014
In a quasi-experimental evaluation of the possible role of stereotype threat in the academic performance of college students with learning disabilities (LD), students with (N = 29) and without (N = 62) identified LD took a simulated Verbal GREĀ® task in one of two conditions modeled after those used in past stereotype threat (ST) research. The task…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Stereotypes, Social Bias, Attitudes toward Disabilities