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Direct linkLori Anna Mesi – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this quantitative cross-sectional study was to investigate the role of mentoring on preventing attrition of females in STEM pathways. This particular study examined mentoring sampled women currently in cybersecurity and engineering professions, though the study and subsequent results could be easily applied to other professions. The…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, STEM Education, Academic Persistence
Juliet Marie Crowell – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Middle school Black girls in the Chicagoland area encounter challenges when engaging in Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) learning and developing individual STEM identities. Black girls with good grades in STEM courses are reluctant to pursue STEM careers because of the negative stereotypes they face in school (King & Pringle,…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Females, African American Students, Barriers
Peer reviewedSungmin Moon; Shu-Sha Angie Guan; Jose H. Vargas; Judith C. P. Lin; Patchareeya Kwan; Carrie L. Saetermoe; Gilberto Flores; Gabriela Chavira – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2025
In 2014, the NIH Diversity Program Consortium (DPC) launched an initiative to implement and evaluate novel interventions at a variety of academic institutions across the country to engage undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds in biomedically-related research. The local intervention examined in the current study provides Critical Race…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Science Education, Biomedicine, Critical Race Theory
Roof, Jonathan Lucas – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Background: The Dogwood Mountain School System (DMSS) faces the challenge of trying to address the apparent drop-off of female student interest in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) and increase female student interest and engagement in STEM. Purpose: The purpose of this action research study was to understand how individual…
Descriptors: Students, Females, Rural Schools, STEM Education
Carrie Leopold – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The recruitment and retention of women in STEM have historically been a struggle. Several causes, such as social factors, stereotypes, and classroom environments, all play a role (Blackburn, 2017). Recruitment efforts are often focused on middle school students. Nevertheless, research shows that children as young as kindergarten already have a…
Descriptors: Females, STEM Education, Sex Stereotypes, Social Influences
Download full textKari Roberts; Roxanne Hughes – Journal of STEM Outreach, 2019
Informal STEM education programs have become venues wherein girls can improve their sense of belonging and potential success (STEM identity) through interactions with role models and seeing how STEM fields are relevant to them. Despite decades of advocacy for single-sex programs' role in improving girls' STEM identity, few studies have found…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Females, Womens Education, Self Concept
