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Direct linkAndrew David White – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Social group disparities persist in who chooses to pursue Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields in higher education. Goal congruity theory has highlighted how perceptions of other-oriented opportunities in STEM can spur interest among underrepresented students. The present work extends this framework by considering how…
Descriptors: College Students, Disproportionate Representation, Self Concept, Individual Development
Oluwatobiloba Theresa Ayangbola – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation investigated the science identity development of first-generation college students (FGCS) within learning assistant (LA) -supported science classes. The research aimed to uncover the complex and multifaceted processes through which FGCS come to see themselves as "science people" and how various elements of the…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Scientific Attitudes, Self Concept, Introductory Courses
Peer reviewedCole, Megan F.; Beck, Christopher W. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2022
Student self-perception is related to persistence in science. Yet how self-perception develops over time is less clear. We examined student self-perception trajectories and their relationship with gender, persons excluded due to ethnicity or race (PEER) status, and first-generation college student (FGCS) status across a yearlong introductory…
Descriptors: Learning Trajectories, Student Development, Self Concept, Introductory Courses
Le, Paul T.; Doughty, Leanne; Thompson, Amreen Nasim; Hartley, Laurel M. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2019
Identity production is a complex process in which a person determines who he or she is via internal dialogue and sociocultural participation. Understanding identity production is important in biology education, because students' identities impact classroom experiences and their willingness to persist in the discipline. Thus, we suggest that…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Biology, Self Concept, Student Development
Harkins Monaco, Elizabeth A. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2020
Introductory college courses are designed to comprehensively introduce divergent disciplines (Zipp, 2012) and can prepare students to understand the risks for multiple minoritized identities in their fields of study (Shriberg, 2016). This approach is effective, however, only if faculty are appropriately equipped to use intersectional pedagogy.…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Higher Education, College Faculty, Social Discrimination
Lin, Yii-nii; Chiu, Yi-hsing Claire; Lai, Pi-hui – College Student Journal, 2014
This study describes the learning and development experiences of teacher education students after taking an introductory course on adolescent psychology. The instructor adopted the developmental instruction model (DIM) (Knefelkamp, 1998) in this study and facilitated students learn through experiential learning. Fifteen students (aged between 20…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Preservice Teachers, Psychology, Adolescents
