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Lock, Robynne M.; Hazari, Zahra – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2016
Despite the fact that approximately half of high school physics students are female, only 21% of physics bachelor's degrees are awarded to women. In a previous study, drawn from a national survey of college students in introductory English courses, five factors commonly proposed to positively impact female students' choice of a physical science…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Females, Sciences, Physics
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Yeh, Yi-Fen; Jen, Tsung-Hau; Hsu, Ying-Shao – International Journal of Science Education, 2012
Scientific inquiry involves a variety of abilities scientists use to investigate the natural world. In order to develop students' scientific inquiry, researchers and educators have developed different curricula and a variety of instructional resources, which make features and descriptors of scientific inquiry in teaching and learning even more…
Descriptors: Novices, Educational Research, Multivariate Analysis, Researchers