Predicting High School Students' Interest in Majoring in a STEM Field: Insight into High School Students' Postsecondary Plans.

E Lichtenberger, C George-Jackson - Journal of Career and Technical …, 2013 - ERIC
This study examined how various individual, family, and school level contextual factors
impact the likelihood of planning to major in one of the science, technology, engineering, or …

The role of identity development, values, and costs in college STEM retention.

T Perez, JG Cromley, A Kaplan - Journal of educational …, 2014 - psycnet.apa.org
The current short-term longitudinal study investigated the role of college students' identity
development and motivational beliefs in predicting their chemistry achievement and …

Impact of STEM sense of belonging on career interest: The role of STEM attitudes

C Xu, RE Lastrapes - Journal of Career Development, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Prior research has established a direct belonging–interest pathway among students
underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields; …

Beyond the leaky pipeline: Developmental pathways that lead college students to join or return to STEM majors

J Wu, D Uttal - Journal of Research in STEM Education, 2020 - j-stem.net
STEM education researchers often invoke the “Leaky Pipeline” metaphor (National
Research Council, 1986) when explaining why so many students do not persist in STEM …

The relationship of STEM attitudes and career interest

E Wiebe, A Unfried, M Faber - EURASIA Journal of …, 2018 - digitalcommons.csumb.edu
This study examines the relationships between attitudes toward all core STEM subjects and
interest in STEM careers among 4th through 12th grade US students through the …

[PDF][PDF] Understanding how women's and minorities' perceptions of scientists influence students' choice of major

A Ryder-Burge - 2010 - repository.lib.ncsu.edu
This research project seeks to understand some of the influences on college students'
decisions to pursue science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) related …

Beyond STEM attrition: changing career plans within STEM fields in college is associated with lower motivation, certainty, and satisfaction about one's career

EQ Rosenzweig, XY Chen, Y Song, A Baldwin… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
Background Research and policy often focus on reducing attrition from educational
trajectories leading to careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics …

Characteristics of Secondary Students Who Have Intentions to Choose a STEM Major in College: Findings from a Three-Year Study.

A Sahin, HC Waxman - EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and …, 2020 - ERIC
This study was grounded in the social cognitive career theoretical framework (Lent, Brown, &
Hackett, 1994). The purpose of this four-year longitudinal study was to examine the factors …

Factors affecting students' STEM choice and persistence: A synthesis of research and findings from the second year of a longitudinal high school STEM tracking study

A Ekmekci, A Sahin, H Waxman - STEM Education 2.0, 2019 - brill.com
In this chapter, we first synthesize the last two decades of research on students' intentions,
choices, and persistence in the STEM pipeline (ie, earning a postsecondary degree in STEM …

Exploring Community Colleges in the Stem Education Landscape: development of stem college major choice model

C Evans - 2013 - scholarship.shu.edu
Community colleges are becoming increasingly relevant as an entrance point into
postsecondary education for potential science, technology, engineering, and mathematics …