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Girls and Boys Typically Have Similar Math Value Beliefs: Replication Evidence across Historical Time, High School, and Racial/Ethnic Groups
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Christine R. Starr; Glona Lee-Poon; Charlott Rubach; Yannan Gao; Nayssan Safavian; Anna-Lena Dicke; Jacquelynne S. Eccles; Sandra D. Simpkins – Journal of Adolescence, 2025
Introduction: Individuals' math value beliefs are theorized to influence who persists in STEM. However, the existing findings on gender differences in adolescents' math value beliefs are inconsistent. The goal of this study was to use three existing datasets to help clarify when gender differences emerge for high school adolescents and for whom…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, High School Students, Achievement Tests, Mathematics Achievement
Investigating Underrepresented and First-Generation College Students' Science and Math Motivational Beliefs: A Nationally Representative Study Using Latent Profile Analysis
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Snodgrass Rangel, Virginia; Vaval, Luronne; Bowers, Alex – Science Education, 2020
The purpose of this study was to investigate the math and science beliefs of underrepresented students, with a focus on first-generation college (FGC) students. We do so by estimating a typology of high school students based on their mathematics and science beliefs and examining which group(s) students were more likely to be in. We used latent…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, First Generation College Students, High School Students, STEM Education
Examining High School Students' Gendered Beliefs about Math: Predictors and Implications for Choice of STEM College Majors
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Riegle-Crumb, Catherine; Peng, Menglu – Sociology of Education, 2021
Utilizing the High School Longitudinal Study, a nationally representative sample of U.S. high school students, this study investigates the factors that predict different beliefs about gendered math ability and the potential consequences for students' choices to enter gender-segregated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors…
Descriptors: High School Students, Adolescents, Beliefs, Gender Issues
Individuals' Math and Science Motivation and Their Subsequent STEM Choices and Achievement in High School and College: A Longitudinal Study of Gender and College Generation Status Differences
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Jiang, Su; Simpkins, Sandra D.; Eccles, Jacquelynne S. – Developmental Psychology, 2020
Math and science motivational beliefs are essential in understanding students' science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) achievement and choices in high school and college. Drawing on the Eccles' expectancy-value theory and Arnett's emerging adulthood framework, this study examined the relations among high school students' motivational…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, STEM Education, Gender Differences, Generational Differences