Career Certainty and Persisting Interest in Stem: An Analysis of Underrepresented Groups

White, Jeffry L.; Mitchell, Sidney K.

doi:10.1615/jwomenminorscieneng.2013004825

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“…Although there has been a focus on increasing diversity and broadening participation in STEM, it is recognized that there is a gap of coverage in relation to disabled students [86][87][88][89][90][91], and there are many issues that need to be addressed [54,91,92]. Diversity is also lacking on the STEM educator level [3].…”

Section: Stem and Science Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Undergraduate Disabled Students as Knowledge Producers including Researchers: A Missed Topic in Academic Literature

Lillywhite

Wolbring

2019

Education Sciences

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Research experience is beneficial for undergraduate students for many reasons. For example, it is argued in academic literature and in reports produced by various organizations that engage with science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education and science education that undergraduate research experience increases the graduation rate in STEM disciplines as well as the amount of students thinking about STEM careers. As such, being researchers should also be of benefit to undergraduate disabled students in all disciplines including STEM education. However, given that undergraduate disabled students encounter many problems within post-secondary education, including STEM education, undergraduate disabled students might encounter problems in becoming researchers. Policies are to be guided by knowledge and evidence. However, knowledge and evidence deficits exist in relation to the lived experience of disabled people. Undergraduate disabled students could decrease the knowledge deficit as researchers and knowledge producers. The numbers of disabled academic faculty are judged as being too low and efforts are under way to increase the number of disabled academics. Increasing the number of undergraduate disabled researchers might increase the available pool of disabled students that pursue an academic career. Given the important role research performed by undergraduate disabled students can play and given that many studies highlight problems for disabled students in post-secondary education in general, we used a scoping review approach to investigate the coverage of undergraduate disabled students as knowledge producers, including as researchers, in the academic literature. Using various search strategies, we obtained 1299 initial hits. However, only 15 had relevant content. No study investigated how undergraduate disabled students select their research topics or how they are enticed to pursue research projects outside of a course-based framework. No study looked at the linkage between being an undergraduate disabled researcher and career choices or using the obtained research skills on the undergraduate level in one's role as a community member after graduation. Our findings suggest an opportunity for many fields, ranging from disability studies to STEM education, to generate more empirical data and conceptual work on the role of undergraduate disabled students as knowledge producers including as researchers. Such studies could help to increase the numbers of undergraduate disabled students as knowledge producers, including researchers, which in turn could help to increase (a) the number of disabled academics, (b) the number of disabled students who perform research in the community after graduation, (c) the degree success of disabled students and (d) the knowledge available on the social situation of disabled people.

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Section: Stem and Science Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Undergraduate Disabled Students as Knowledge Producers including Researchers: A Missed Topic in Academic Literature

Lillywhite

Wolbring

2019

Education Sciences

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“…Also, researchers like Bahr et al. (2017) defined racial, ethnic identity and gendered identity-based marginalization and White and Mitchell (2013) classified minorities in STEM based on gender (women), gender identity and ability status), we took help from those sources to define who are the URGs in engineering.…”

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Marginalized engineering students' narrative construction through photo elicitation

Maitra

Coley

2022

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PurposeThe goal of this study is to explore an immediate step in understanding the lived experiences of under-represented students through metaphor construction and possibly collect more in-depth data through photograph-based interviews.Design/Methodology/ApproachThis article introduced photo-elicitation based narrative interviews as a qualitative methodology while interviewing fourteen undergraduate community college students mostly from underrepresented groups (URGs). At the beginning of each interview, the authors probed the participants with 8 photographs chosen by the research team to represent a diverse set of experiences in engineering. The authors conducted a thematic analysis of the interview data.FindingsThe findings suggested that the inclusion of photo-elicitation often catalyzed consumption of representations, images, metaphors, and voice to stories passed unnoticed; and finally produces more detailed descriptions and complements semi-structured narrative interviews.Research Limitations/ImplicationsThis study advances the scholarship that extends photograph driven interviews/photo elicitation methodology while interviewing marginalized population and offers a roadmap for what a multi-modal, arts-based analysis process might look like for in-depth interviews.Practical ImplicationsThe use of photo-elicitation in our research enabled a deeper, more poignant exploration of the URG students' experience of navigating engineering. The participants were able to relate to the photographs and shared their life narratives through them; hence, use of photographs can be adapted in future research.Social ImplicationsOur research revealed that PEI has excellent potential to capture marginalized narratives of URGs, which is not well explored in educational research, specially, in higher education. In our research, PEI promoted more culturally inclusive approaches positioning the participants as experts of their own narratives.Originality/ValueThe study presented in this paper serves as an example of qualitative research that expands methodological boundaries and centers the role of power, marginalization, and creativity in research. This work serves as a unique and important contribution to the photo-elicitation literature, offering a critical roadmap for researchers who are drawn to photo elicitation/photograph driven interviews as a method to explore their inquiry.

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“…Additionally, SWD often express unique attributes that are particularly beneficial to STEM careers . White and Mitchell (2013) pointed out these include: 1.…”

Section: Students With Disabilities Need Soft Skills To Succeedmentioning

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The Importance of Extracurricular STEM Activities for Students with Disabilities

Fisher

2017

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Students with disabilities are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers (National Science Foundation, 2015). The underrepresentation is a problem because the nation's competitiveness depends on diverse individuals with STEM knowledge, skills, and abilities to drive innovation that will need to new products and economic growth (Business higher Education Forum/A Policy Brief, 2014; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2016; National Science Board, 2016

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Career Certainty and Persisting Interest in Stem: An Analysis of Underrepresented Groups

Cited by 7 publications

References 55 publications

Undergraduate Disabled Students as Knowledge Producers including Researchers: A Missed Topic in Academic Literature

Undergraduate Disabled Students as Knowledge Producers including Researchers: A Missed Topic in Academic Literature

Marginalized engineering students' narrative construction through photo elicitation

The Importance of Extracurricular STEM Activities for Students with Disabilities

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