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Jay Plasman; Michael Gottfried; Filiz Oskay – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
Demand for engineering-interested and proficient high school graduates continues to grow across the nation. However, there remains a severe gap in college participation and employment in engineering fields for students with learning disabilities (SWLDs). One potential way to encourage SWLDs to consider engineering as a profession and promote the…
Descriptors: Engineering, Occupations, Career Choice, Engineering Education
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Jay Plasman; Desmond Myles – Exceptional Children, 2024
Despite growing calls to increase diversity in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, students with learning disabilities (SWLDs) remain underrepresented in STEM at the postsecondary level. Considering this call for increased diversity as a means to expand and strengthen STEM success, we used the High School Longitudinal…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, STEM Education, Career Pathways, Engineering
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Holian, Laura; Kelly, Emily – National Center for Education Statistics, 2020
This Statistics in Brief provides information about the occupational expectations of high school freshmen in 2009 and how their expectations changed (or did not) by the spring of 2012. The focus is on expectations for a career in a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) field, defined in this report as science, technology,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Occupational Aspiration, High School Freshmen, Student Attitudes