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Xiao-Yin Chen – ProQuest LLC, 2024
It is essential that all students who are interested in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) have the motivational supports to persist in their STEM career trajectories. "STEM role models," or successful individuals in STEM, can be powerful tools to motivate college students towards STEM careers, particularly if students…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Academic Persistence, Role Models, College Students
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Anna McDougall; Douglas McKee; George Orlov – Journal of Economic Education, 2025
While the field of economics lacks diversity, there is little consensus on the underlying causes of or most effective solutions to this problem. The authors of this article combine data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) with data from their own survey of U.S. economics departments to identify institution and…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Economics Education, Departments, Undergraduate Students
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Chen Chen; Jonathan Rothwell; Pedrito Maynard-Zhang – Computer Science Education, 2024
Background and Context: Both in- and out-of-school computer science (CS) learning opportunities are expanding, but their influences on CS career interests are unclear. Method: To investigate, we applied multinomial propensity score weighting analysis on a 2021 U.S. nationally representative sample of 4,116 5th-to-12th-grade students. Findings: The…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Computer Science Education, Influences, Vocational Interests
Sally K. Merritt – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The gender gap in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) professions results from several factors that deter females from pursuing careers in STEM. Girls' low interest in science and lack of feeling both belonging and efficacy in science, which emerge as early as middle school, are believed to be part of the problem. This study reports…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Sex Stereotypes, Females, Middle School Students
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Janice Miller-Young; Marnie Jamieson; Seth Beck – Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
Cultivating a sense of belonging can be challenging in online contexts as well as for underrepresented students in engineering education. This study used a mixed methods sequential explanatory design to understand underrepresented students' experiences in a Canadian first-year course. Taking place during remote delivery due to COVID-19, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Experience, Sense of Belonging, College Freshmen
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Gladstone, Jessica R.; Cimpian, Andrei – International Journal of STEM Education, 2021
Is exposing students to role models an effective tool for diversifying science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)? So far, the evidence for this claim is mixed. Here, we set out to identify systematic sources of variability in STEM role models' effects on student motivation: If we determine "which role models" are effective…
Descriptors: Role Models, Program Effectiveness, Literature Reviews, STEM Education
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Lawner, Elizabeth K.; Quinn, Diane M.; Camacho, Gabriel; Johnson, Blair T.; Pan-Weisz, Bradley – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2019
This meta-analysis synthesizes research on using ingroup role models to improve the performance and interest of underrepresented students in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). A systematic literature search resulted in forty-five studies that met the selection criteria, including the presence of a comparison group. Both lab and…
Descriptors: Role Models, Student Interests, STEM Education, Interaction
Oded Gurantz; Michael Hurwitz; Jonathan Smith – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2020
Younger siblings take more advanced high school course end of year exams when their older siblings perform better in those same exams. Using a regression discontinuity and data from millions of siblings who take Advanced Placement (AP) exams, we show that younger siblings with older siblings who marginally "pass" an AP exam are more…
Descriptors: Siblings, High School Students, Advanced Placement, Gender Differences
Miles, Karen – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Students are not succeeding in post-secondary education in California: 52% of community college students and 46% of students in 4-year institutions fail to graduate within 6 years. Traditionally underrepresented students have far higher rates of non-completion. In part this is because they have not been given an opportunity to engage in a…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Career Readiness, Curriculum Implementation, Program Effectiveness
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Wasserman, Melanie – Future of Children, 2020
In this article, Melanie Wasserman reviews the latest evidence about the causal link between family structure and children's economic and social outcomes. Going beyond the question of whether family structure affects child outcomes--a topic that's already been covered at length, including in previous Future of Children volumes--she examines how…
Descriptors: Family Structure, Well Being, Children, Child Development
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Kearney, Melissa S.; Levine, Phillip B. – Future of Children, 2020
Children from low-income backgrounds are less likely to have economically successful role models and mentors in their own families and neighborhoods, and are more likely to spend time with media. In this article, Melissa Kearney and Phillip Levine review the theoretical and empirical evidence on how these external forces can influence children's…
Descriptors: Role Models, Mentors, Mass Media Effects, Child Development
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Lee, Star W.; Ing, Marsha – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2020
Research suggests there are potential benefits to students when taught by instructors who share the same gender and/or race/ethnicity. While underrepresented students have shown increased persistence and academic performance when they were taught by gender- and/or race/ethnicity-congruent faculty, there is little research that has explored the…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Racial Differences, Ethnicity, Congruence (Psychology)
Zarrett, Nicole; Veliz, Phillip; Sabo, Don – Women's Sports Foundation, 2020
This is one of the first studies of its kind to systematically examine processes influencing youth entry, retention, and dropout from sports. To accomplish this objective, the Women's Sports Foundation (WSF), in partnership with The DICK'S Sporting Goods Foundation, commissioned a national survey about the participation and experiences of youth in…
Descriptors: Females, Athletics, Adolescents, Adolescent Attitudes
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Chestnut, Eleanor K.; Lei, Ryan F.; Leslie, Sarah-Jane; Cimpian, Andrei – Education Sciences, 2018
A common misconception about math is that it requires raw intellectual talent or "brilliance." Only students who possess this sort of brilliance are assumed to be capable of success in math-related subjects. This harmful myth has far-reaching consequences for the success of girls and children from ethnic-minority backgrounds in these…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Academic Ability, Academically Gifted, Misconceptions
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Fenton, Patrice Elizabeth; Cox, Addae; McQuilkin, Kareem – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Increasing racial and gender diversity has been an urgent goal in many professions and education is no exception. Though the call for more Black men is a worthy one, many challenging questions arise when one considers the country's socio-historical record. The purpose of this study is to explore some of these questions that arise as one probes the…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, Males, Special Education Teachers, Racial Differences
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