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STEM Magnet High Schools and Student Intent to Declare a STEM Major
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LaTanya L. Dixon; Suzanne M. Dugger; Hsien-Yuan Hsu – Educational Forum, 2024
This study employed design-based logistic regression to examine the extent to which attending a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) magnet high school, school demographics, and student-level factors explain a student's intent to declare a STEM major in the first semester of college. The results show only student-level factors…
Descriptors: Magnet Schools, High School Students, Intention, Majors (Students)
An Inquiry into the Linkages between University Ecosystem and Students' Entrepreneurial Intention and Self-Efficacy
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Moraes, Gustavo Hermínio Salati Marcondes de; Fischer, Bruno Brandão; Guerrero, Maribel; Rocha, Anne Kathleen Lopes da; Schaeffer, Paola Rücker – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2023
The purpose of this article is to evaluate the impact of university ecosystems on entrepreneurial intention and self-efficacy of Brazilian undergraduate students. The empirical exercise relies on Structural Equations Modelling based on data of 468 students from 70 universities across the country. Results indicate that traditional approaches to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Self Efficacy, Entrepreneurship
A National Examination of the Predictors of Volunteer Utilization in School-Based Agricultural Education
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Sherma, Ashley; Sorensen, Tyson J. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2020
Despite the potential benefits of utilizing volunteers in SBAE programs, volunteer utilization among SBAE teachers has received little attention in the literature in recent years, especially on a national level. A national random sample of SBAE teachers were surveyed to determine current behaviors and perceptions as well as predictors of volunteer…
Descriptors: Volunteers, Agricultural Education, Predictor Variables, Teacher Attitudes
STEM Magnet High Schools and Student Intent to Declare a STEM Major
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Dixon, LaTanya L.; Dugger, Suzanne M.; Hsu, Hsien-Yuan – Grantee Submission, 2020
This study employed design-based logistic regression to examine the extent to which attending a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) magnet high school, school demographics, and student-level factors explain racial/ethnic differences in a student's intent to declare a STEM major in the first semester of college. Data were drawn…
Descriptors: Magnet Schools, High School Students, Intention, Majors (Students)
Applying Behavioural Insights to Increase Female Students' Uptake of STEM Subjects at A Level. Research Report
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UK Department for Education, 2020
Female students are much less likely than their male counterparts to take A levels in certain STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) subjects. This is problematic for gender equality but also limits the country's capacity to address the growing national STEM skills shortage. This research was commissioned to design and test the…
Descriptors: Females, STEM Education, Course Selection (Students), Intervention
Alternative Break Programs and the Factors that Contribute to Changes in Students' Lives
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Niehaus, Elizabeth Kathleen – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to explore the extent to and ways in which student participants in Alternative Break (AB) programs report that their AB experience influenced their intentions or plans to volunteer, engage in advocacy, or study or travel abroad, or their major or career plans. Additional analysis explored the specific program…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Student Experience, Intention, Volunteers