Motivation is an essential factor influencing learners' active participation in STEM subjects
and their decision to study STEM fields. This study aimed to determine the current state of …

Research on situational antecedents for women's persistence is critical to advancing gender
equity in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. To disentangle …

We explore how students' course concerns at the outset of their introductory statistics course
predict their later perceived course challenges and future interest in statistics via a function …

Compared to continuing-generation students, first-generation college students face
additional barriers to their sense of belonging in STEM disciplines and at selective …

Los esfuerzos por ampliar la participación en Ciencias, Tecnología, Ingeniería y
Matemáticas (STEM, por sus siglas en inglés), especialmente de los estudiantes …

Although designed to prepare students for future coursework or to fulfill basic degree
requirements, introductory math courses often serve as barriers to student success. In two …

Background Students are more likely to persist when they both perceive themselves as
capable of success (expectancy) and perceive tasks to be interesting, important, and useful …

When, why, and how are people motivated? This is the essential question that motivation
science has sought to address since the field's inception, and yet motivation scientists have …

Although achievement motivation research has produced powerful principles for supporting
students in general, minoritized students' motivational experiences and evidence of …

This study examined whether performance goal orientations and mindset beliefs explicate
the negative relation of ethnic stereotype threat with achievement and whether these …