ERIC Number: EJ1220303
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 15
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How STEM Majors' Evaluations of Quantitative Literacy Relate to Their Imagined STEM-Career Futures
Nicholes, Justin
Across the Disciplines, v16 n2 p1-15 Jun 2019
Framed by future-selves motivational theory, the present study explored intersections of STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) students' evaluations of everyday and disciplinary quantitative literacy (QL) and how students imagined their STEM-related, future career selves. A quantitative design using data setappropriate Spearman's rho tests of association was used. Results of Spearman's rho tests of survey responses of one hundred and thirty-four (N = 134) STEM majors showed that students' evaluations of everyday QL correlated positively with evaluations of disciplinary QL (p < 0.001) and that evaluations of both everyday and disciplinary QL correlated positively with how strongly they imagined using and writing about numbers in future STEM-related careers (p = 0.001). This study establishes patterns to understand and direct future research and guide first-year composition and WAC/WID practice with QL components.
Descriptors: STEM Education, Majors (Students), Career Choice, College Students, Numeracy, Correlation, Mathematical Logic, Mathematics Skills, Student Attitudes
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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