NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing 1 to 15 of 301 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Emma Smith; Patrick White – British Educational Research Journal, 2025
There is a longstanding imperative from both government and industry for a workforce with the skills needed to drive forward the scientific and technological advances that are considered so crucial to the economic prosperity of the nation. However, the skills of this workforce have purportedly been both in short supply and inadequate for many…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, STEM Education, Sex, Gender Differences
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Mónica Moso-Diez; Antonio Mondaca-Soto; Juan P. Gamboa; Itziar García-Blázquez – International Journal of Training and Development, 2025
The "leaky pipeline" metaphor describes the greater likelihood of women and girls leaving Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields at every point, relative to men and boys. Gender disparities occur both in recruitment--that is, who chooses to enter a STEM pathway--as well as retention--that is, who chooses to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career and Technical Education, STEM Education, STEM Careers
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Christine R. Starr; Campbell Leaper – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
Nerd-genius stereotypes about people in the physical sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (pSTEM) are barriers to getting many adolescent girls interested in pSTEM. Endorsing these stereotypes may undermine youths' pSTEM identity especially when they are incongruent with their self-concepts--possibly more likely for girls than boys.…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Stereotypes, Academically Gifted, Self Concept
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Mariza Tsakalerou; Asma Perveen; Alibek Ayapbergenov; Dinara Dikhanbayeva; Yevgeniy Lukhmanov – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2025
Contribution: This research examines undergraduate students' perceptions in engineering disciplines toward gender inclusivity in course curricula, focusing on three essential pillars of curricular design: course content, teaching methodology, and course assessment. Background: The shortage of women representation in STEM fields, particularly in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Engineering Education, STEM Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Yucnary-Daitiana Torres-Torres; Marcos Román-González; Juan-Carlos Perez-Gonzalez – European Journal of Education, 2024
Computational Thinking (CT) is crucial for the advancement of the STEM field, where there continues to be a lack of female representation. Teaching and learning (T/L) of CT should incorporate didactic strategies that aim to eliminate gender biases and integrate girls/women into this context. In response to the question, "What didactic…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Gender Differences, Females, Disproportionate Representation
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Janina Beckmann; Lukas Fervers – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2024
Low interest in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) among high school students in general and women in particular is a highly prevalent phenomenon in many industrialized countries. This study analyses whether study counselling--guiding students to select a major in higher education through self-exploration and fostering their…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Career Choice, Majors (Students), Disproportionate Representation
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Antje Stefani; Ralf Minor; Kathrin Leuze; Susanne Strauss – International Journal of STEM Education, 2024
Background: Despite a well-documented underrepresentation of women in STEM majors and occupations, empirical evidence on whether there really is a "leaky STEM pipeline" is mixed due to a lack of methodological consistency. Studies vary by (1) the definition of STEM, (2) the decision to measure choices alone or to also include…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Females, STEM Education, STEM Careers
Stephanie Owen – Grantee Submission, 2023
Beliefs about relative academic performance may shape college major choice and explain gender gaps in STEM, but little causal evidence exists. To test whether these beliefs are malleable and salient enough to change behavior, I run a randomized experiment with 5,700 undergraduates across seven introductory STEM courses. Providing relative…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, STEM Education, Gender Differences, Disproportionate Representation
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Rosó Baltà-Salvador; Marta Peña; Ana-Inés Renta-Davids; Noelia Olmedo-Torre – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2024
The under-representation of women in male-dominated STEM fields is a worldwide concern. However, there are other academic fields, like some non-STEM degrees, where female students are over-represented. Previous research has identified five critical factors influencing student participation rates: career choice, satisfaction, self-esteem,…
Descriptors: Females, Disproportionate Representation, Career Choice, Potential Dropouts
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Jehan Alghneimin; Attila Varga; Monika Kovacs – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2024
In recent years, the integrated approach of STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) has been adopted in the Middle East to improve students' scientific capacities and their formative thinking. Nevertheless, this approach encounters complications in the application, including many due to gender differences. Middle…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, STEM Education, Gender Differences, Gender Bias
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Andrea G. Marshall; Kit Neikirk; Dominique Stephens; Edgar Garza-Lopez; Zer Vue; Heather K. Beasley; Yelena Janumyan Doe; Desmond Campbell; Letimicia Fears; Ahmad Alghanem; Elsie C. Spencer; Estevão Scudese; Beverly Owens; Chia Vang; Derrick J. Morton; Zachary Conley; Antentor Hinton; Antentor Hinton Jr. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2024
Identity matters in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) because it can affect an individual's long-term sense of belonging, which may in turn affect their persistence in STEMM. Early K-12 science classes often teach students about the foundational discoveries of the field, which have been predominately made, or at…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Diversity, Scientists, STEM Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Marina Tal; Rea Lavi; Shari Reiss; Yehudit Judy Dori – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2024
Qualified professionals in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and STEM education are in increasingly short supply globally. Role models can help increase women's representation in STEM, both at entry and senior levels. The study objectives were to identify the characteristics of role models in STEM higher education and…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Higher Education, Role Models, Alumni
Sandra Furnbach Clavijo – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This mixed-method study explored female students' sense of belonging while studying in a mechanical engineering program. Mechanical engineering has one of the lowest proportions of women and remains one of the least chosen majors of female engineering students. To start to understand why, it is important to have research focused specifically on…
Descriptors: Females, Engineering Education, Womens Education, Disproportionate Representation
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Jinjushang Chen; Lara Perez-Felkner; Chantra Nhien; Shouping Hu; Kristen Erichsen; Yang Li – Research in Higher Education, 2024
Gender disparities persist in postsecondary computing fields, despite improvements in postsecondary equity overall and STEM fields as an aggregate. The entrenchment of this issue requires a comprehensive, longitudinal lens. Building on expectancy-value theory, the present study examines the relationships among students' gender-ability stereotypes,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Computer Science, Gender Differences, Disproportionate Representation
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Ebenezer D. Narh; Michael Buzzelli – Higher Education Quarterly, 2024
Despite the gendered rebalancing of enrolments in higher education (HE) in the West, the underrepresentation of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines persists. Gendered selectivity of field of study influences higher education student migration (HESM) and in turn sheds light on HE participation. Framed by…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Higher Education, Disproportionate Representation, Females
Previous Page | Next Page »
Pages: 1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  ...  |  21