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Nissen, Jayson M. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2019
Self-efficacy, the belief in one's ability to succeed in learning tasks, predicts learning and success in education broadly and physics specifically. While self-efficacy increases for students in most introductory science and mathematics courses, self-efficacy consistently decreases for women in physics courses. This study used the experience…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Gender Differences, High School Students, Physics
Hewagallage, Dona; Christman, Elaine; Stewart, John – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
This study investigated factors influencing Force and Motion Conceptual Evaluation (FMCE) pretest and post-test scores for a sample (N=1116 students) collected in the introductory calculus-based mechanics class at a large eastern land-grant university. Several academic and noncognitive factors were examined using correlation analysis and linear…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Academic Achievement, College Students, Concept Formation
Marshman, Emily M.; Kalender, Z. Yasemin; Nokes-Malach, Timothy; Schunn, Christian; Singh, Chandralekha – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2018
Self-efficacy can affect performance, career goals, and persistence. Prior studies show that female students have lower self-efficacy than male students in various science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) domains, and the self-efficacy gap is a factor that contributes to the low representation of female students in STEM. However,…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Gender Differences, Physics, Self Efficacy
Henderson, Rachel; Hewagallage, Dona; Follmer, Jake; Michaluk, Lynnette; Deshler, Jessica; Fuller, Edgar; Stewart, John – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
Self-efficacy has emerged as one of the most important noncognitive variables explaining academic behavior. It has been shown to influence students' academic and career decisions as well as their academic performance. Multiple studies have reported differences in self-efficacy between men and women in science, technology, engineering, and…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Gender Differences, Self Efficacy, Physics
Kelly Miller; Tobias Espinosa; Ives Araujo; Isaura Gallegos – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Self-efficacy is an important measure in science education as it is predictive of persistence and success in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses and is an influential factor in students' decisions to major in STEM fields. It is unclear what effect active teaching strategies have on students' self-efficacy, which is…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Physics, Science Instruction, Student Attitudes
Galano, Silvia; Liccardo, Antonella; Amodeo, Anna Lisa; Crispino, Marianna; Tarallo, Oreste; Testa, Italo – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
We investigated how the endorsement of gender stereotypes affects disciplinary identity across three different science-technology-engineering-mathematics (STEM) areas: physics, biology, and chemistry, and whether such relationship is mediated by self-concept constructs, such as self-efficacy and perceived academic control. Building on the…
Descriptors: Sex Stereotypes, High School Students, Self Concept, STEM Education
Li, Yangqiuting; Singh, Chandralekha – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
Students' motivational beliefs about physics can influence their learning outcomes as well as retention in their majors and career choices. Moreover, due to societal stereotypes and biases about who belongs in physics and can succeed in physics, women often have lower motivational beliefs about physics than men. The expectancy-value theory…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Females, Self Efficacy, Student Interests
Kalender, Z. Yasemin; Marshman, Emily; Schunn, Christian D.; Nokes-Malach, Timothy J.; Singh, Chandralekha – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
Self-efficacy is an aspect of students' motivation that has been shown to play a critical role in students' engagement, participation, and retention in academic careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Since women are underrepresented in STEM domains such as physics, we studied female and male students' self-efficacy…
Descriptors: Females, Student Attitudes, Self Efficacy, STEM Education
Cwik, Sonja; Singh, Chandralekha – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
Student grades and motivational outcomes in introductory physics courses can influence their retention in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines and future career aspirations. We surveyed students in mandatory large introductory level algebra-based physics courses for bioscience majors at a large research university. The…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Grades (Scholastic), Physics, Science Instruction
Cwik, Sonja; Singh, Chandralekha – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
Societal stereotypes and biases about who belongs in physics and who can excel in it can impact the physics beliefs, including their self-efficacy, interest, and identity, e.g., of women in physics courses. Exploring these beliefs longitudinally and analyzing how different beliefs predict students' physics identity are important for developing a…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Sex Stereotypes, Physics, Science Education
Durk, Jessie; Davies, Ally; Hughes, Robin; Jardine-Wright, Lisa – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
Female students and those with a low socioeconomic status (SES) typically score lower in assessments of self-efficacy and ability in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). In this study, a cohort of over 200 UK students attended an intensive, active learning, physics workshop, with pre- and post-assessments to measure both…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Workshops, Pretests Posttests, Physics
Ikkatai, Yuko; Inoue, Atsushi; Kano, Kei; Minamizaki, Azusa; McKay, Euan; Yokoyama, Hiromi M. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
Women are underrepresented in physics. Because of the structure of the Japanese educational system, more women must choose physics as a subject for university entrance exams to increase the number of women studying advanced physics at university. In this study, we investigated the factors influencing girls' choice of physics for university…
Descriptors: Females, Physics, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries
Eddy, Sarah L.; Brownell, Sara E. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2016
This focused collection explores inequalities in the experiences of women in physics. Yet, it is important for researchers to also be aware of and draw insights from common patterns in the experiences of women across science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Here, we review studies on gender disparities across college…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Females, Undergraduate Students, Gender Bias
Cwik, Sonja; Singh, Chandralekha – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
Students' self-efficacy in physics classes can play a key role in shaping course outcomes. Prior research has shown that women have a lower self-efficacy than men in calculus-based introductory physics courses. We administered a validated survey to 564 students to investigate the gender differences in self-efficacy and how it predicts student…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Self Efficacy, Physics, Science Instruction
Hung, Ching-Sui; Wu, Hsin-Kai – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2018
Numerical and symbolic representations are used extensively in physics problems. However, relatively little is understood about how students respond to these two representational formats when they are solving problems. This study examined the effect of the representational format (numeric vs symbolic) on the problem-solving performance,…
Descriptors: Grade 10, Problem Solving, High School Students, Self Efficacy