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Tomperi, Päivi; Kvivesen, Mona; Manshadi, Saeed; Uteng, Stig; Shestova, Yulia; Lyash, Oleg; Lazareva, Irina; Lyash, Asya – Education Sciences, 2022
This study investigates the suitability of the STEM Career Interest Survey (STEM-CIS) to measure secondary school students' aspirations towards STEM subjects and careers. A confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted to assess the initial structural validity of the adapted STEM-CIS survey, where the science subscale was extended to four…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Students, STEM Education
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Conradty, Cathérine; Sotiriou, Sofoklis A.; Bogner, Franz X. – Education Sciences, 2020
Many current curricula, in going beyond traditional goals, increasingly foster creativity in science classrooms, declaring creativity a core skill of the 21st century. For enhancing creativity in science classrooms, the subject Arts is considered to offer a potential way from STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) to STEAM (STEM with…
Descriptors: Creativity, Art Education, STEM Education, Learning Modules
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Mitsopoulou, Athina G.; Pavlatou, Evangelia A. – Education Sciences, 2021
The aim of this study is to investigate the predictive factors that predispose secondary school students' interest in studying STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields in higher education. For this purpose, an already existing questionnaire was used and modified properly, according to the Greek educational system. The survey…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Student Interests, STEM Education, Higher Education
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Cored Bandrés, Sergio; Liesa Orús, Marta; Vázquez Toledo, Sandra; Latorre Cosculluela, Cecilia; Anzano Oto, Silvia – Education Sciences, 2021
Higher Education institutions must respond to the major challenges posed by the technological transformations of recent years. For this, one of the key aspects is that the teachers working in them are trained to incorporate these technologies in teaching-learning processes, which requires them to be digitally competent. To analyse how gender…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Technological Literacy, Teacher Competencies, Gender Differences
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Nagy, Tímea; Csernoch, Mária; Biró, Piroska – Education Sciences, 2021
Previous research proved that teaching spreadsheeting from a programming perspective is much more effective than the widely accepted tool-centered surface approach methods. Spreadsheeting as an introductory programming approach allows students to build up schemata leading to contextualized, concept-based problem-solving. Furthermore, it provides…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Self Efficacy, Gender Differences, Programming
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Fuertes, Ana María de Caso; Blanco Fernández, Jana; García Mata, Ma de los Ángeles; Rebaque Gómez, Alfredo; Pascual, Rocío García – Education Sciences, 2020
The present study aims to understand the relationship between the big five factors of personality and academic motivation. In addition, the following variables are taken into consideration; sex, age and type of educational studies. A quantitative methodology is used, in base to a not experimental, correlational study. The sample is composed of 514…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Achievement Need, Academic Achievement, Student Motivation
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Conradty, Cathérine; Bogner, Franz X. – Education Sciences, 2016
Computers are considered innovative in classrooms, raising expectations of increased cognitive learning outcomes or motivation with effects on Deeper Learning (DL). The "new medium", however, may cause cognitive overloads. Combined with gender-related variations in ability, self-efficacy or self-confidence, computers may even diminish…
Descriptors: Hypermedia, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Student Motivation