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Jacquelynne S. Eccles; Allan Wigfield – Educational Psychology Review, 2024
To address the seven guiding questions posed for authors of articles in this special issue, we begin by discussing the development (in the late 1970s-early 1980s) of Eccles' expectancy-value theory of achievement choice (EEVT), a theory developed to explain the cultural phenomenon of why girls were less likely to participate in STEM courses and…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Academic Achievement, Females, Student Participation