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Am I a Math or Science Person? How High School Students' Attitudes towards Mathematics and Science Influence Their Decision to Major in STEM.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Am I a Math or Science Person? How High School Students' Attitudes towards Mathematics and Science Influence Their Decision to Major in STEM./
Author:	Marsh, Dalton Dayne.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
Description:	188 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-01, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-01A.
Subject:	Mathematics education. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27958875
ISBN:	9798662382732

Am I a Math or Science Person? How High School Students' Attitudes towards Mathematics and Science Influence Their Decision to Major in STEM.
Marsh, Dalton Dayne.

Am I a Math or Science Person? How High School Students' Attitudes towards Mathematics and Science Influence Their Decision to Major in STEM. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 188 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-01, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of New Hampshire, 2020.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Motivated by an innovation-driven economy, critical emphasis has been placed on the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce in the United States. Education has been charged to prepare a diverse population of young people qualified to take up these jobs and lead the nation into a rapidly evolving technological future. How to best approach this goal is still being negotiated. While past research and efforts focused largely on improving students' achievement in mathematics and science, more recent research points to the need to also consider students' attitudes towards STEM subjects. However, what types of attitudes (e.g., self-efficacy, identity, interest, utility) are most important and how to best promote them remains unclear. This dissertation research project aims to better understand the relationships between U.S. high school students' STEM-related educational experiences, attitudes, achievement, course taking, and college major choices. Analyses employed data from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09) and used structural equation modeling to examine expectancy-value models of STEM motivation. Differences across gender, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic groups were examined to investigate why certain groups have historically been underrepresented in STEM. The results suggest that it is a sense of identity as a math or science person that is the most important attitude related to students' decision to major in STEM and that, furthermore, best explains underrepresentation.

ISBN: 9798662382732Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Mathematics education.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Attitudes towards mathematics

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