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Torri Draganov; JoHyun Kim; Seung Won Yoon – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2025
With the need to increase Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) graduates, higher education institutions need to identify and improve ways to increase underrepresented STEM student retention rates. Cypress College in Southern California implemented a program called STEM[superscript 2] (Strengthen Transfer Education and…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, Disproportionate Representation, STEM Education, Community Colleges
Lunn, Stephanie; Ross, Monique; Hazari, Zahra; Weiss, Mark Allen; Georgiopoulos, Michael; Christensen, Kenneth – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2022
Despite increasing demands for skilled workers within the technological domain, there is still a deficit in the number of graduates in computing fields (computer science, information technology, and computer engineering). Understanding the factors that contribute to students' motivation and persistence is critical to helping educators,…
Descriptors: Educational Experience, Prediction, Identification (Psychology), Computer Science Education
Christy Jarrard; Deborah South Richardson; Robert Bledsoe – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2025
This study investigates the influence of instructor mindset on student perceptions. Due to the need for increasing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) student retention and the issue of underrepresentation of minority groups in STEM disciplines, we also examined whether instructor mindset impacts underrepresented students more…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, College Faculty, Teacher Student Relationship, STEM Education
Dana Christine Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Physics is known for its emphasis on innate brilliance as a prerequisite for disciplinary membership and success. Women, Black, Latine, and Indigenous individuals remain vastly underrepresented and marginalized in physics spaces, a reality that is due in part to oppressive stereotypes that position them as less inherently intelligent than their…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Disproportionate Representation
Isabelle Plante; Kathryn Everhart Chaffee; Evelyne Gauthier; Elizabeth Olivier; Véronique Dupéré – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Background: In the past decades, there has been a growing concern to understand why boys struggle in school. One of the turning points in students' educational trajectories likely to exacerbate boys' academic difficulties is students' enrolment in private or enriched school programmes, as boys are underrepresented in such programmes. Method: To…
Descriptors: Males, Disproportionate Representation, Equal Education, Gender Differences
Kimberly Shenell Davis – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The problem addressed by this study was the disproportionately low retention of racial minorities and women in STEM degree programs in community colleges. Although underrepresented groups are enrolling in STEM degree programs, they still face barriers that impact their retention, which has resulted in unequal outcomes across multiple STEM fields.…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Minority Group Students, Racial Differences, Females
Charles Sanchez – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Pre-college access programs operating in high schools commonly focus on assisting underserved and historically excluded populations of students in preparing for, applying to, and enrolling in postsecondary education. Through two analyses, this study examines the efficacy of two types of access programs in facilitating postsecondary enrollment and…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Postsecondary Education, Academic Persistence, College Enrollment
Keith Leo Johnson Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The accounting profession is one of the most under-represented industries in hiring, retaining, and promoting minorities (Ross et al., 2014). The lack of representation of African Americans in the accounting profession has been reported for decades (Harris et al., 2020). Using a quantitative approach, this research study's data reflected how the…
Descriptors: Accounting, African American Students, African Americans, Career Choice
Lackner, Elisabeth – Community College Review, 2023
Objective: This quantitative study examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on students' persistence at a minority-serving, open-access, public, urban community college in New York City. Specifically, the project looked at factors associated with mid-semester college withdrawals during spring 2020 when the college shifted to remote instruction…
Descriptors: Two Year College Students, Community Colleges, Academic Persistence, COVID-19
Henderson, Rachel; Sawtelle, Vashti; Nissen, Jayson Micheal – Physics Teacher, 2020
Many students across the United States enter college with aspirations of becoming a successful career scientist within the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). However, the number of bachelor's degrees awarded in physics has significantly lagged behind the number of bachelor's degrees awarded in the other STEM…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Self Efficacy, Science Education, Physics
Keast, Vicki J. – Australian Journal of Education, 2022
A sense of belonging is an important factor for the persistence of girls in the study of physics. Content and imagery that presents the field as a masculine domain will undermine belonging and make it more difficult for girls to establish a physics identity that is congruent with their gender identity. The physics syllabus, final examinations and…
Descriptors: Physics, Gender Bias, Science Instruction, Foreign Countries
Ellis, Shandua Brown – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) continue to be a major challenge for the United States (U.S.), as the U.S. continues to lag behind other countries in this area due to ongoing lack of individuals who are entering STEM fields and many who are entering STEM fields but lack the skills necessary to perform adequately in these roles.…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, STEM Education, Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence
Marcelo Almora Rios; Pamela Burdman – Just Equations, 2023
Calculus is a stepping stone to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) degrees and careers, but countless college students abandon their STEM ambitions after an encounter with calculus--or to avoid taking the intimidating course altogether. While traditional approaches have focused on prerequisite courses--which often repeat high…
Descriptors: Calculus, Mathematics Education, State Universities, Females
Denner, Jill; Potter, Susan; Anderson, Pamela; Torres, David – Research in Higher Education, 2023
There is persistent underrepresentation of female and ethnic and racial minority students in computing. While community colleges provide a unique opportunity to increase diversity in computing fields, many students do not persist. This study aims to understand the factors that predict students' momentum--completion of a certificate, degree, or…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Females, Minority Group Students, Racial Differences
Wilson, Denise; VanAntwerp, Jennifer – SAGE Open, 2021
Unmet or thwarted belonging needs have been implicated in multiple studies of women in engineering in college and in the engineering workforce. A wide range of other challenges that women face in engineering are tightly linked to deficits in belonging. Furthermore, many women face intersectional factors across race and ethnicity that make it even…
Descriptors: Females, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Sense of Community