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Osman Erol; Osman Aköz; Raziye Güngör – International Journal of Technology in Education, 2024
The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between middle school students' attitudes towards robotic coding and their STEM career interests. For this purpose, data were collected from a total of 213 students studying in three different secondary schools in a province in the south of Turkey. The "STEM Career Interest" scale and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Robotics
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Martin, Jason M. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2017
First-year college student retention is important to colleges and universities, as well as beyond academia. An analysis was conduced of emergent themes and subthemes from 144 nonreturning students' stories about school and about home throughout their first-year experience. These students wrote more negative stories about school-related events than…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Academic Persistence, Student Attitudes, Student Experience
Hébert, Thomas P. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2018
Experiences of 10 high-achieving first-generation college students from low-income backgrounds were the focus of this qualitative research study. Family adversity and difficult personal experiences during adolescence were major themes; however, students benefitted from emotionally supportive K-12 educators and academic rigor in high school.…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Low Income Groups, High Achievement, Student Experience