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The Role of Out-of-School Experiences and Targeted Recruitment Efforts in Norwegian Science and Technology Students' Educational Choice
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Henriksen, Ellen Karoline; Jensen, Fredrik; Sjaastad, Jørgen – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2015
Understanding young people's educational choice is of interest in order to recruit sufficient numbers of young people to careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). In this article, questionnaire data (closed and open-ended questions) from 5,007 Norwegian first-year students in all STEM higher-education disciplines are…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Recruitment, Foreign Countries, Career Choice
Level, Strength, and Facet-Specific Self-Efficacy in Mathematics Test Performance
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Street, Karin Elisabeth Sørlie; Malmberg, Lars-Erik; Stylianides, Gabriel J. – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2017
Students' self-efficacy expectations (SEE) in mathematics are associated with their engagement and learning experiences. Going beyond previous operationalisations of SEE we propose a new instrument that takes into account not only "facet-specificity" (expectations related to particular competences or skills) and "strength"…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Mathematics Tests, Mathematics Achievement, Performance Based Assessment