Social, economic, personal, family, and institutional influences on engineering students' choice of degree program

A Sundly, GJ Galway - SN Social Sciences, 2021 - Springer
For this study, set in the Newfoundland Labrador context, we surveyed 151 undergraduate
engineering students on demographic, social, economic, family, school-based, and personal …

Determining the effects of pre-college STEM contexts on STEM major choices in 4-year postsecondary institutions using multilevel structural equation modeling

A Lee - Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education …, 2013 - docs.lib.purdue.edu
Many STEM studies have focused on traditional learning contexts, such as math-and
science-related learning factors, as pre-college learning predictors for STEM major choices …

Predicting STEM performance in a Hispanic serving institution

MA Fagan, DM Hull, R Gray, JA Bolen - Personality and Individual …, 2019 - Elsevier
The present study examined the Big Five factor model of personality and cognitive ability as
predictors of academic performance in a sample of non-traditional student STEM majors (n …

[HTML][HTML] Encouraging STEM Careers among Minoritized High School Students: The Interplay between Socio-Environmental Factors and Other Social Cognitive Career …

RE Durham, ML Falk, AG Daniels, A Reigel… - Education …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Performance in math, particularly algebra, is a major barrier to student success and
participation in STEM among under-represented minoritized students, particularly Black US …

Replicating or franchising a STEM afterschool program model: core elements of programmatic integrity

N Stevenson, AS Sommers, N Grandgenett… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Background Designed in 2012 with a first implementation in 2013, NE STEM 4U is a
professional development program for post-secondary students/undergraduates, and serves …

Is the Area Under Curve Appropriate for Evaluating the Fit of Psychometric Models?

Y Han, J Zhang, Z Jiang, D Shi - Educational and …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
In the literature of modern psychometric modeling, mostly related to item response theory
(IRT), the fit of model is evaluated through known indices, such as χ2, M2, and root mean …

Investigating the predictive relationship of GPA on engineering students' enrollment in entrepreneurial education programs: A Decision Tree Analysis

P Shekhar, TH Khan, S Gajjar… - 2023 IEEE Frontiers in …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Undergraduate engineering students continue to get exposure to entrepreneurship training
through various entrepreneurship education programs (EEPs) offered at higher education …

The effect of an integrated STEM course on middle school students' interest and career aspirations in STEM Fields

SS Richardson - 2016 - kuscholarworks.ku.edu
The STEM Semantics Survey was employed to investigate the effect of a one semester
integrated STEM lab course on middle school students' interest in STEM fields and STEM …

Early career outcomes of engineering alumni: Exploring the connection to the undergraduate experience

SR Brunhaver - 2015 - search.proquest.com
Concerns from government and industry about a future shortage of well-trained engineers
have led to significant engineering education research on undergraduate engineering …

[PDF][PDF] A longitudinal model to increase the enrollment and graduation of Alaska Native/American Indian engineering undergraduates

HP Schroeder, LP Lazzell - 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & …, 2013 - jee.asee.org
Native American enrollment and graduation rates remain among the lowest of all ethnic and
racial student cohorts at universities in the United States. This paper describes the impact of …