Pathways from parental stimulation of children’s curiosity to high school science course accomplishments and science career interest and skill

Balancing Needs in Publishing With Undergraduate and Graduate Students at Doctoral Degree-Granting Universities

“…Without minimizing the needs of graduate students for faculty mentoring or the challenges involved in mentoring undergraduate researchers, as a faculty member, I (RAL) nonetheless enjoy instilling excitement for research in undergraduates. As lab leaders, we try to remember that undergraduate and graduate students alike are often motivated by curiosity—which is a worthwhile attitude to encourage a new generation of researchers (Chin and Osborne, 2008; Gottfried et al, 2016; Bathgate and Schunn, 2017). Attending to different needs between student groups and involving graduate students in mentoring undergraduates can make researching and writing with undergraduates more feasible so faculty can support curiosity and still balance their own publishing needs (Haslam and Laham, 2009; Stanley et al, 2017).…”

Supporting Early Scientific Thinking Through Curiosity

“…This curiosity can promote lasting effects; Shah et al (2018) show that young children's curiosity, reported by parents at the start of kindergarten, relates to academic school readiness. In one of the few longitudinal studies including curiosity, research shows that parents' promotion of curiosity early in childhood leads to science intrinsic motivation years later and science achievement in high school (Gottfried et al, 2016). More generally, curiosity can provide a remedy to boredom, giving children a goal to direct their behavior and the motivation to act on their curiosity (Litman and Silvia, 2006).…”

Potential Factors to Enhance Students' STEM College Learning and Career Orientation

“…To follow up on other studies emanating from the social cognitive career theory framework (e.g., Lent et al, 2008;Nugent et al, 2015;Gottfried et al, 2016;Zhang et al, 2019), we operationalized relevant variables focusing on high school students as our target population. The results of our study helped us to better understand that the interplay of socio-contextual, motivational, and instructional factors operating within learning environments can impact high school students' future STEM college learning and career orientation.…”

“…Regarding increasing students' STEM learning interests and career orientation, parents' constant involvement in their children's learning has been shown to be an effective factor (Gottfried et al, 2016). According to Heddy and Sinatra (2017), students' learning interest in science can be better maintained when their parents get more involved in the learning process.…”