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Wagstaff, Iris R.

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Predicting 9th Graders' Science Self-efficacy and STEM Career Intent: A Multilevel Approach.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Predicting 9th Graders' Science Self-efficacy and STEM Career Intent: A Multilevel Approach./
Author:	Wagstaff, Iris R.
Description:	160 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-10A(E).
Subject:	Science education. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3584390
ISBN:	9781303999062

Predicting 9th Graders' Science Self-efficacy and STEM Career Intent: A Multilevel Approach.
Wagstaff, Iris R.

Predicting 9th Graders' Science Self-efficacy and STEM Career Intent: A Multilevel Approach. - 160 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--North Carolina State University, 2014.

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

This study was conducted in response to the growing concern about the lack of U.S. students majoring in STEM fields and pursuing STEM careers (NSF, 2013). In order for the U.S. to compete in a global economy that is increasingly technologically-based, a skilled STEM workforce is a necessity (National Academies, 2010). Understanding the factors that encourage confidence in science and intent to pursue science-related careers remains a national mandate. Using data from a nationally representative sample of 21,440 students from 940 schools, the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09), this study provides insight into the factors that predict science self-efficacy and STEM career intent. Guided by Lent, Brown & Hackett's (1994) Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT), both student-level and school-level factors were examined. The findings indicate that the personal inputs of being African American, female, and having a science identity predict both science self-efficacy and STEM career intent. Participating in no extracurricular informal learning experiences predicts both science self-efficacy and STEM career intent, while participating in more than one extracurricular learning experience only predicts self-efficacy. Background contextual affordances such as socioeconomic status had no relationship to either science self-efficacy or STEM career intent. Parents who were very confident and somewhat confident in helping their child with science homework predicted science self-efficacy but showed no relationship to STEM career intent. None of the school-level variables predicted science self-efficacy, but the percentage of students on free/reduced lunch, students in schools located in the city, and students in Catholic schools predicted STEM career intent. Finally, the relationship between contextual affordances (SES and parental support) and science self-efficacy and STEM career intent did vary by sex for both outcome variables regarding socioeconomic status, but not regarding parental support.

ISBN: 9781303999062Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Predicting 9th Graders' Science Self-efficacy and STEM Career Intent: A Multilevel Approach.
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