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The Cognitive and Affective Roles of Learning Assistants in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics College Classrooms: An Exploration of Classroom Experiences and Students' Metacognitive Awareness and Disciplinary Identity
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Kornreich-Leshem, Hagit; Benabentos, Rocio; Hazari, Zahra; Potvin, Geoff; Kramer, Laird – Science Education, 2022
The power of knowledgeable peers (in this case undergraduate learning assistants [LAs]) to scaffold learning in ways that can positively influence both cognitive and affective outcomes in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), is explored in this study. In terms of the cognitive perspective, we use a metacognitive awareness (MA)…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Metacognition, Undergraduate Students, Outcomes of Education
Examining the Effect of Early STEM Experiences as a Form of STEM Capital and Identity Capital on STEM Identity: A Gender Study
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Cohen, Susie M.; Hazari, Zahra; Mahadeo, Jonathan; Sonnert, Gerhard; Sadler, Philip M. – Science Education, 2021
It is well known that women are underrepresented in science. technology engineering and mathematics (STEM) and that their interest declines more steeply over the schooling years. As such, this study uses a STEM identity theoretical framework to examine the effects of early STEM experiences, focusing particularly on experiences that may be more…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Self Concept, Gender Differences, Females
Early Informal STEM Experiences and STEM Identity: The Importance of Talking Science
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Dou, Remy; Hazari, Zahra; Dabney, Katherine; Sonnert, Gerhard; Sadler, Philip – Science Education, 2019
In this paper, we examine the relationship between participants' childhood science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) related experiences, their STEM identity (i.e., seeing oneself as a STEM person), and their college career intentions. Whereas some evidence supports the importance of childhood (i.e., K-4) informal STEM education…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Self Concept, Student Interests, Science Careers
Stability and Volatility of STEM Career Interest in High School: A Gender Study
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Sadler, Philip M.; Sonnert, Gerhard; Hazari, Zahra; Tai, Robert – Science Education, 2012
This retrospective cohort study characterizes how interest in science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) careers changes during high school for more than 6,000 students in a representative national sample of 34 two- and four-year colleges taking mandatory college English courses. Overall, large gender differences in career plans were…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Science Interests, STEM Education, Student Interests