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  1. Repeated calls to diversify the population of students earning undergraduate degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) ... /ethnic composition of 4-year degree earners. In this paper, we...

    Authors: DeeDee Allen, Melissa Dancy, Elizabeth Stearns, Roslyn Mickelson and Martha Bottia
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:20
  2. Although a large body of research has identified challenges faced by women in STEM fields and strategies to improve the experience for women in STEM, little of this research has examined which strategies undergra...

    Authors: Gili Freedman, Melanie C. Green, Mia Kussman, Mason Drusano and Melissa M. Moore
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:20
  3. In the US, bioscience programs now often have more women than men who earn degrees at all ... this, evidence still exists for gender inequity in bioscience and medical fields. For example, women with careers in t...

    Authors: Alysa Malespina and Chandralekha Singh
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:13
  4. This study examined how developing an engineering identity through the interplay between interest, recognition, and performance/competence beliefs and establishing a sense of belonging supported women’s persis...

    Authors: Dina Verdín
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2021 8:33
  5. Survey findings indicated that women were more likely than men to consider pursuing engineering while in high school, before admission into college, or while in college rather than considering it earlier in their...

    Authors: Hesborn Wao, Gladis Kersaint, Chrystal A. S. Smith, Rebecca Campbell-Montalvo, Ellen Puccia, John Skvoretz, Julie P. Martin, Reginald Lee and George MacDonald
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:25
  6. Innovation in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields in the U.S. is threatened by a ... diversity. Social identity threat research finds messages in the academic environment devalue women and un...

    Authors: Sheri L. Clark, Christina Dyar, Elizabeth M. Inman, Nina Maung and Bonita London
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2021 8:56
  7. Social capital, defined as the people one knows and the resources available through that network of people, has been a key variable in research examining the participation of women and underrepresented minority s...

    Authors: Ellen Puccia, Julie P. Martin, Chrystal A. S. Smith, Gladis Kersaint, Rebecca Campbell-Montalvo, Hesborn Wao, Reginald Lee, John Skvoretz and George MacDonald
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2021 8:20
  8. Research illustrates that student motivations influence learning engagement, persistence, and achievement in powerful ways and that positive motivations are linked to deeper learning, critical thinking, pro-so...

    Authors: Jonathan D. Stolk, Michael D. Gross and Yevgeniya V. Zastavker
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2021 8:35
  9. It is well-documented that experiences in STEM courses for women and students of color are different from ... and genders. We use a framework of “science as White property”, derived from critical...

    Authors: Melissa Dancy, Katherine Rainey, Elizabeth Stearns, Roslyn Mickelson and Stephanie Moller
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2020 7:52
  10. The constructs of interest and motivation are often identified as factors that contribute to the persistence of undergraduate college women in physics, mathematics, engineering, engineering technology, and comput...

    Authors: Kimberly Grau Talley and Araceli Martinez Ortiz
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2017 4:5
  11. The underrepresentation of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields is well documented in developed countries, and yet public discussion of gender disparities in STEM in China is s...

    Authors: Randolph C. H. Chan
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:37
  12. Understanding student motivational factors such as test anxiety and science confidence is important for increasing retention in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), especially for underrepresented s...

    Authors: Sehoya Cotner, Lucas M. Jeno, J. D. Walker, Christian Jørgensen and Vigdis Vandvik
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2020 7:55
  13. Women and ethnic minorities have historically been underrepresented in some STEM fields. It is therefore important to understand the factors influencing students’ persistence in STEM fields, and what STEM belo...

    Authors: Gulsah Dost
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2024 11:12
  14. Continuous calls for reform in science education emphasize the need to provide science experiences in lower-division courses to improve the retention of STEM majors and to develop science literacy and STEM ski...

    Authors: X. Ben Wu, Carolyn Sandoval, Stephanie Knight, Xavier Jaime, Maria Macik and Jane F. Schielack
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2021 8:31
  15. We used an opportunity gap framework to analyze the pathways through which students enter into and depart from science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) degrees in an R1 higher education institu...

    Authors: Robin A. Costello, Shima Salehi, Cissy J. Ballen and Eric Burkholder
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:46
  16. A strong, positive science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) identity is a predictor of future career choice in a STEM field. In this commentary, major concepts are explored within and among fou...

    Authors: Lisa Martin-Hansen
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2018 5:53
  17. Differences in post-secondary academic outcomes along dimensions of gender, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status are a major concern. Few studies have considered differences in patterns of academic outcome...

    Authors: Lorraine Blatt, Christian D. Schunn, Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal and Benjamin Margolin Rottman
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2020 7:58
  18. STEM fields are instrumental in increasing the technological and innovative capacity of the economy. As women are underrepresented in the STEM workforce, diverse strategies have been implemented to boost their...

    Authors: María Paola Sevilla, Daniela Luengo-Aravena and Mauricio Farías
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:58
  19. Drawing on social identity theory and positive psychology, this study investigated women’s responses to the social environment of physics classrooms. It also investigated STEM identity and gender disparities o...

    Authors: Viviane Seyranian, Alex Madva, Nicole Duong, Nina Abramzon, Yoi Tibbetts and Judith M Harackiewicz
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2018 5:40
  20. The analogy of the leaky pipeline has been used to describe STEM education, with lower student diversity from compulsory to post-compulsory education and beyond. Although extensive research has explored the views...

    Authors: Billy Wong, Yuan-Li Tiffany Chiu, Órla Meadhbh Murray and Jo Horsburgh
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:51
  21. Women and students of color are widely underrepresented in most STEM fields. In order to investigate this underrepresentation, we interviewed 201 college seniors, primarily women and people of color, who eithe...

    Authors: Katherine Rainey, Melissa Dancy, Roslyn Mickelson, Elizabeth Stearns and Stephanie Moller
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2018 5:10
  22. Women are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) ... Even the most promising female students’ interest in STEM subjects often decreases during secondary school. ... present s...

    Authors: Linlin Luo, Heidrun Stoeger and Rena F. Subotnik
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:7
  23. Abundant research conducted in many countries has underlined the critical role of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) in developing human capital in fields important to a nation’s global c...

    Authors: Fatma Kayan-Fadlelmula, Abdellatif Sellami, Nada Abdelkader and Salman Umer
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:2
  24. Numerous efforts worldwide have been made to increase diversity in engineering and computer science (ECS), fields that pay well and promote upward mobility. However, in the United States (U.S.), females and st...

    Authors: Lin Tan, Isabel S. Bradburn, David B. Knight, Timothy Kinoshita and Jacob Grohs
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:68
  25. Decades of research have examined what motivates students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, but STEM careers are a broad category encompassing hundreds of di...

    Authors: Emily Q. Rosenzweig and Xiao-Yin Chen
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:40
  26. The lack of racial diversity in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines is perhaps one of the most challenging issues in the United States higher education system. The issue is no...

    Authors: Jue Wu, Torrie Cropps, Canek Moises Luna Phillips, Samara Boyle and Yvette E. Pearson
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:41
  27. Research and policy often focus on reducing attrition from educational trajectories leading to careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), but many students change career plans within STE...

    Authors: Emily Q. Rosenzweig, Xiao-Yin Chen, Yuchen Song, Amy Baldwin, Michael M. Barger, Michael E. Cotterell, Jonathan Dees, Allison S. Injaian, Nandana Weliweriya, Jennifer R. Walker, Craig C. Wiegert and Paula P. Lemons
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2024 11:15
  28. Using the most recent nationally representative longitudinal cohort of U.S. secondary school students, we examine the degree to which students’ perceived mathematical and scientific abilities and interests predic...

    Authors: Teng Zhao and Lara Perez-Felkner
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:42
  29. Colleges across the United States have shown a commitment to advancing diversity in the STEM fields by creating programs aimed at improving outcomes of women and/or racially and ethnically minoritized students...

    Authors: Olivia Palid, Sarah Cashdollar, Sarah Deangelo, Chu Chu and Meg Bates
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:2
  30. The motivational climate within a course has been shown to be an important predictor of students’ engagement and course ratings. Because little is known about how students’ perceptions of the motivational clim...

    Authors: Brett D. Jones, Margaret Ellis, Fei Gu and Hande Fenerci
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:65
  31. Students’ attitudinal beliefs related to how they see themselves in STEM have been a focal point of recent research, given their well-documented links to retention and persistence. These beliefs are most often...

    Authors: Madison E. Andrews, Anita D. Patrick and Maura Borrego
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2021 8:13
  32. The body of work regarding gender bias in academia shows that female instructors are often rated lower by students than their male counterparts. Mechanisms are complex and intersectional and often associated w...

    Authors: C. A. Evans, K. Adler, D. Yucalan and L. M. Schneider-Bentley
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2024 11:5
  33. In this introduction for this Special Issue we discuss the need for the investigation of science identity with an emphasis on the environment. As such, we propose taking an interactionist approach; one that ex...

    Authors: Ann Y. Kim and Gale M. Sinatra
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2018 5:51
  34. Our current research examines the motivation of female students in science education college towards their STEM fields according ... properties. Three-quarters of the students enrolled in science education colleg...

    Authors: İlbilge Dökme, Arif Açıksöz and Zeynep Koyunlu Ünlü
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:8
  35. Emerging methodologies that apply and integrate science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM) in education have appeared in recent years as a pedagogical alternative providing more holistic and attra...

    Authors: José-Antonio Marín-Marín, Antonio-José Moreno-Guerrero, Pablo Dúo-Terrón and Jesús López-Belmonte
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2021 8:41
  36. Women and students of color are widely underrepresented in the majority of STEM fields. In order to investigate this underrepresentation, we interviewed over 200 male and female college seniors, primarily wome...

    Authors: Katherine Rainey, Melissa Dancy, Roslyn Mickelson, Elizabeth Stearns and Stephanie Moller
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2019 6:6
  37. Females are underrepresented in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields all over the world. To encourage more girls to choose STEM majors and careers, it is critical to increase their i...

    Authors: Ning Wang, Aik-Ling Tan, Xiaohong Zhou, Ke Liu, Feng Zeng and Jiong Xiang
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:59
  38. Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) ... U.S. workforce. Unfortunately, the trend in retaining students in STEM majors has been going down. If ... education institutions are going to retain more stud...

    Authors: Joseph Appianing and Richard N. Van Eck
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2018 5:24
  39. Women and people of color continue to be underrepresented in many STEM fields and careers. Many studies have linked societal biases against the mathematical abilities of women and people of color to this under...

    Authors: Yasemin Copur-Gencturk, Ian Thacker and Joseph R. Cimpian
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:31
  40. Two critical challenges in science education are how to engage students in the practices of science and how to develop and sustain interest. The goal of this study was to examine the extent to which high schoo...

    Authors: Bobby Habig and Preeti Gupta
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2021 8:57

    The Publisher Correction to this article has been published in International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:5

  41. While about half of Black and Latinx students reported holding counter-stereotypical beliefs about scientists, this is significantly more common among female students of color, and among Black female students in ...

    Authors: Ursula Nguyen and Catherine Riegle-Crumb
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2021 8:28
  42. We find that females are less likely to enroll in STEM-related fields, while students with higher ... school mathematics grades are more likely to enroll in STEM. Female students have lower first-year dropout rat...

    Authors: Melvin Vooren, Carla Haelermans, Wim Groot and Henriette Maassen van den Brink
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:1
  43. Mental health for engineering undergraduates is an urgent topic for engineering educators. Narratives of engineering education requiring suffering may create or exacerbate problematic perceptions around stress...

    Authors: Karin J. Jensen, Joseph F. Mirabelli, Andrea J. Kunze, Thomas E. Romanchek and Kelly J. Cross
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:30

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