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Predicting Academic and Career Choice: The Role of Transformative Experience, Connection to Instructor, and Gender Accounting for Interest/Identity and Contextual Factors
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Pugh, Kevin J.; Paek, Sue Hyeon; Phillips, Michael M.; Sexton, Julie M.; Bergstrom, Cassendra M.; Flores, Selani D.; Riggs, Eric M. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2021
We used the social-cognitive choice model (Lent et al., 2018) as a framework for investigating academic and career choice in the domain of geoscience for male and female students. In addition, we explored the role of perceived connection to instructors and transformative experience as additional factors in the social-cognitive choice model. A…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Career Choice, Majors (Students), Transformative Learning
Motivation in High School Science Students: A Comparison of Gender Differences in Life, Physical, and Earth Science Classes
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Britner, Shari L. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2008
The aims of this study were to examine self-efficacy and other motivation variables among high school science students (n = 502); to determine the degree to which each of the four hypothesized sources of self-efficacy makes an independent contribution to students' science self-efficacy beliefs; to examine possible differences between life,…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Grades (Scholastic), Females, Self Efficacy