Women in STEM: The impact of STEM PBL implementation on performance, attrition, and course choice of women

Boedeker, Peter; Nite, Sandra B.; Capraro, Robert M.; Capraro, Mary Margaret

doi:10.1109/fie.2015.7344178

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“…Gender, home language, and immigration status of students have significant positive effects on their affective mathematics engagement. Consistent with the findings of prior research (e.g., Boedeker et al, 2015;Buck et al, 2008;Bystydzienski & Bird, 2006;Steegh et al, 2019, the results of the present study revealed significant gender differences in affective mathematics engagement. Male students' affective mathematics engagement was more positive than female students.…”

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“…For example, female students who endorsed such stereotypes were less likely to have positive affective mathematics engagement (Schmader et al, 2004). In addition, many female students believed that mathematics did not involve creativity and chose not to pursue STEM-related careers (Bicer et al, 2017;Boedeker et al, 2015, Wai et al, 2010. Moreover, female students tended to show less interest in taking advanced STEM related courses as compared to male students (Boedeker et al, 2015;X.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Mathematics-related disciplines and careers have been considered as male-dominated fields (Buck et al, 2008). A number of researchers (e.g., Boedeker et al, 2015;Bystydzienski & Bird, 2006) have shown male students as advantaged in mathematics and the stereotypes about female students in mathematics. Mathematics tended to be viewed as masculine and unexciting for female students (Boedeker et al, 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

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School and Student Factors and Their Influence on Affective Mathematics Engagement

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Capraro²,

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2023

J Ethn Cult Stud

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This study examined the student-level (i.e., gender, home language, and immigration status) and school-level (i.e., school economic disadvantage status) variability of the students’ affective mathematics engagement. It was hypothesized that there is a school effect that contributes toward explaining differences in affective mathematics engagement besides the student-level differences. For the sake of the nested structure of the data in Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), we used the Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) methodology. There were 10,221 students from 246 schools in the study. The results of this study explained 5.3% of variance in students’ affective mathematics engagement by school-mean economic disadvantage status, where students’ demographic factors explained 1.2%. The present study contributed to a better understanding of the opportunity to learn variables at the student- and school-level in students’ affective mathematics engagement.

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School and Student Factors and Their Influence on Affective Mathematics Engagement

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2023

J Ethn Cult Stud

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“…Women who have opted for IT find the salaries, future status and lifestyle attractive features of a career in IT [31]. Women with STEM degrees were noted to earn more than their peers who opted for other degrees and had projected job growth of 17% compared to 9.8% of those in non-STEM degrees [7].…”

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The Influence of Culture on Women’s IT Career Choices

Calitz

Cullen

Fani

2020

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Skilled Information Technology (IT) professionals are essential to support businesses and the economy. Businesses increasingly require more qualified IT professionals, be they male or female. In South Africa, the number of women professionals participating in the IT industry is less than 20%. A number of factors influence women's IT career choices, such as previous programming exposure, parents, teachers and role models. Research suggests that there are gender differences in preferences and beliefs that may affect career choices, including cultural influences. The role of culture in women's IT career decisions has not been extensively explored in South Africa. The aim of this exploratory study was to determine if the factor, Culture influences women's IT career choices in South Africa. An on-line survey was conducted amongst women IT professionals in South Africa to determine the factors that influenced their IT career choices. The data from the survey were analysed using Exploratory Factor Analysis. The results, specifically relating to the factor Culture, are reported in this paper. The findings indicate that the factor Culture plays an important role when women make IT career choices as well as when females decide to remain in an IT career. The study found that culture does play a significant role in IT career decisions for different ethnic groups in South Africa. The findings suggest that efforts must be made to educate young women in computational thinking and expose them to the many career opportunities available for women in the IT industry.

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“…Moreover, there is an important gender gap when dealing with STEM disciplines: The majority of bachelor's degrees are obtained by women; however, STEM subjects are not attractive to them [3] [4]. Increasing this interest in early phases of education such as high school can reduce the gender and social class gap [5].…”

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Design and implementation of space educational activities to motivate young students in Catalonia

Martí¹,

Yzaguirre²

2022

4th Symposium on Space Educational Activities

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STEM education is a new interdisciplinary concept that fuses the learning objectives of sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics. After concluding that many undergraduate students are not interested in STEM disciplines and taking into account the admiration for space, a series of educational activities have been developed to increase their engagement in this field. The proposed project-based workshops are diverse: designing and launching High Altitude Balloons; building water rockets; protecting an egg from the impact with the ground after being dropped from a drone; designing and building paper gliders; 3D printing customzied quadcopters, etc. One of the most impressive activities consisted of designing, manufacturing and launching a low-cost high-altitude balloon to take photographs of the stratosphere. To do so, a kit was developed and validated: this contains a GPS tracker, a camera, an EPS box, a parachute and a helium balloon. The selection of the components was done trying to minimize the operational cost and maximizing the reliability of the design; the final High Altitude balloon weights 350g and has reached altitudes around 27.000 - 30.000 m. The educational activity is a 3 to 4 days workshop in which the students go through the process of building their own HAB, launching it and eventually recovering it to obtain the photographs. The activities have been implemented in multiple schools and high schools in Catalonia, and all of them have shown excellent results. After evaluating the reasons why the workshops were well-received, it was concluded that students were more implicated than in standard lectures because they went from a passive to an active mindset. Moreover, the workshops were designed to make them become curious and increase their eagerness to learn, while forcing them to think and to take important decisions that ultimately influence the final result, rather than observing and admiring somebody else’s work

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Women in STEM: The impact of STEM PBL implementation on performance, attrition, and course choice of women

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References 18 publications

School and Student Factors and Their Influence on Affective Mathematics Engagement

School and Student Factors and Their Influence on Affective Mathematics Engagement

The Influence of Culture on Women’s IT Career Choices

Design and implementation of space educational activities to motivate young students in Catalonia

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