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Rachmatullah, Arif; Wiebe, Eric N. – Science Education, 2023
Computationally intensive science (CIS)-related disciplines and careers are predicted to be among the cutting-edge fields and high-demand jobs. Such disciplines and careers demand expertise in both traditional scientific knowledge and computer science (CS)-related understanding and skills. Preparing educational systems for developing interest and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Career Choice, STEM Careers
Balta, Nuri; Japashov, Nursultan; Mansurova, Aizhan; Tzafilkou, Katerina; Oliveira, Alandeom W.; Lathrop, Rob – Science Education, 2023
Despite pervasive educational efforts, student interest in STEM careers continues to decline in many countries. The present study seeks to better understand this phenomenon by examining how internal factors (gender) and external factors (school grades, grade level, family size) relate to Kazakh students' STEM career interests. To this end, a newly…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Vocational Interests, STEM Careers, Gender Differences
Cerda-Smith, Jacqueline; Joy, Angelina; Mathews, Channing; Knox, Jerica; Mulvey, Kelly Lynn – Science Education, 2023
Racially minoritized groups are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) degree programs and careers, warranting the need to examine students' racialized experiences in K-12 settings that may influence their STEM persistence. In particular, the current study explored adolescent perceptions of school racial climate…
Descriptors: High School Students, STEM Careers, STEM Education, Student Interests
Cian, Heidi; Dou, Remy; Castro, Sheila; Palma-D'souza, Elizabeth; Martinez, Alexandra – Science Education, 2022
An individual's sense of themselves as a "STEM person" is largely formed through recognition feedback. Unfortunately, for many minoritized individuals who engage in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) in formal and informal spaces, this recognition often adheres to long-standing exclusionary expectations of what STEM…
Descriptors: STEM Education, At Risk Students, College Students, Minority Serving Institutions
McAlister, Anne M.; Lilly, Sarah; Chiu, Jennifer L. – Science Education, 2022
We explore how physical science doctoral students navigate their role identities throughout their graduate programme. Physical science doctoral students take on many academic roles in addition to the role of scientist, including researcher, educator, and student. When social expectations of roles become internalized, they become role identities.…
Descriptors: Student Role, Doctoral Programs, Doctoral Students, Self Concept
Pattison, Scott; Ramos Montañez, Smirla; Svarovsky, Gina – Science Education, 2022
Interest is a critical motivating factor shaping how children and youth engage with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) inside and outside of school and to what extent they continue to be STEM learners throughout their lives. Emerging evidence over the last several decades indicates that the foundation of STEM-related…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, STEM Education, Student Interests, Low Income Students
Koomen, Michele H.; Hedenstrom, Mary N.; Moran, Molly K. – Science Education, 2021
Using social cultural career theory (SCCT) linked with tenets of equity, we examined the role of participation in science and engineering fairs (SEFs) on youth's science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) educational and career choices. We analyzed data for evidence of the SCCT constructs of self-efficacy, interest, and learning…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Science Fairs, Self Efficacy, Student Interests
Shaby, Neta; Staus, Nancy; Dierking, Lynn D.; Falk, John H. – Science Education, 2021
Despite considerable efforts in recent years to encourage Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) interest and participation among youth, STEM interest during adolescence continues to decline. Recently, researchers, educators, and policymakers have used a learning ecology perspective to better understand the development and…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Student Interests, Student Participation, Urban Schools
Carman, Jennifer; Zint, Michaela; Burkett, Erin; Ibáñez, Inés – Science Education, 2021
As climate change becomes an increasingly important topic for science educators, it is critical to learn how teachers may be able to increase students' knowledge about it. We conducted two consecutive quasi-experimental studies that investigated the role of interest in predicting middle school students' knowledge gains from a unit about how…
Descriptors: Climate, Change, Science Instruction, Middle School Students
Radišic, Jelena; Selleri, Patrizia; Carugati, Felice; Baucal, Aleksandar – Science Education, 2021
Seen as one of the essential domains for active citizenship, examining how students relate to science has become crucial. Based on a person-centered approach, this article investigates self-related dispositions and motivation in science using the 2015 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data set. By employing a latent profile…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Interests, Science Interests, Socioeconomic Status
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
Gilbert, Andrew; Byers, Christie C. – Science Education, 2017
This exploratory project considers the use of "wonder" as a pedagogical tool with preservice elementary teachers (PSETs). An ongoing vexation facing science teacher educators is helping future elementary teachers overcome anxiety and negative associations with science due to their own school science experiences, while simultaneously…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
Do High-Ability Students Disidentify with Science? A Descriptive Study of U.S. Ninth Graders in 2009
Andersen, Lori; Chen, Jason A. – Science Education, 2016
The present study describes science expectancy-value motivation classes within a nationally representative sample of students who were U.S. ninth graders in 2009. An expectancy-value model was the basis for science-specific profile indicators (self-efficacy, attainment value, utility value, interest-enjoyment value). Using exploratory latent class…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Secondary School Science, Science Instruction, Student Attitudes
Palmer, David H.; Dixon, Jeanette; Archer, Jennifer – Science Education, 2016
Situational interest is short-term interest that is linked to environmental factors in a particular situation. Previous studies have found that some science teaching techniques can be very effective in generating situational interest among students, but the reasons why these are effective remain unclear: Hands-on activities, for example, are known…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Student Interests, Teaching Methods, Preservice Teachers
Anderhag, Per; Wickman, Per-Olof; Bergqvist, Kerstin; Jakobson, Britt; Hamza, Karim Mikael; Säljö, Roger – Science Education, 2016
In this paper, we review research on how students' interest in science changes through the primary to secondary school transition. In the literature, the findings generally show that primary students enjoy science but come to lose interest during secondary school. As this claim is based mainly on interview and questionnaire data, that is on…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Interests, Secondary School Students, Elementary School Students