Who Will Declare a STEM Major? The Role of Achievement and Interests. ACT Research Report Series 2017-4.

J Radunzel, K Mattern, P Westrick - ACT, Inc., 2017 - ERIC
As new initiatives and programs are being increasingly implemented to promote STEM
(Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) interest and participation among US …

Building readiness and intention towards STEM fields of study: using HSLS: 09 and SEM to examine this complex process among high school students

ER Kurban, AF Cabrera - The Journal of Higher Education, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Building on Social Cognitive Career Theory and Xueli Wang's conceptual
model of STEM choice, this study advances and tests a model seeking to understand STEM …

Collective effects of individual, behavioral, and contextual factors on high school students' future STEM career plans

A Sahin, A Ekmekci, HC Waxman - International Journal of Science and …, 2018 - Springer
The purpose of this study is to investigate how students' high school experience, math and
science efficacy, and student, parent, and teacher expectations affect their plans for college …

[HTML][HTML] Which STEM careers are most appealing? Examining high school students' preferences and motivational beliefs for different STEM career choices

EQ Rosenzweig, XY Chen - International Journal of STEM Education, 2023 - Springer
Background Decades of research have examined what motivates students to pursue careers
in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, but STEM careers are …

College major choice in STEM: Revisiting confidence and demographic factors

MW Moakler Jr, MM Kim - The Career Development Quarterly, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Using national freshman survey data, the authors examined confidence and background
variables (eg, gender, minority status, parental occupation) as predictors of science …

Understanding determinants for STEM major choice among students beginning community college

CA Evans, R Chen, RP Hudes - Community College Review, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: This study explored how high school and postsecondary academic parameters
may relate to the choice of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting STEM major choice: A machine learning classification and regression tree approach

CN Chang, S Lin, OM Kwok, GK Saw - Journal for STEM Education …, 2023 - Springer
Despite the increasing demand for professionals in science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics (STEM), only a small portion of young people in the USA pursue a …

The relationships among high school STEM learning experiences and students' intent to declare and declaration of a STEM major in college

MC Bottia, E Stearns, RA Mickelson… - Teachers College …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Background/Context Schools are integral to augmenting and diversifying the science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce. This is because K–12 schools …

Why students choose STEM majors: Motivation, high school learning, and postsecondary context of support

X Wang - American educational research journal, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
This study draws upon social cognitive career theory and higher education literature to test a
conceptual framework for understanding the entrance into science, technology, engineering …

Modeling Student Choice of STEM Fields of Study: Testing a Conceptual Framework of Motivation, High School Learning, and Postsecondary Context of Support …

X Wang - Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of …, 2012 - ERIC
This study draws upon social cognitive career theory and higher education literature to
propose and test a conceptual framework for understanding the selection of postsecondary …