Gender differences in STEM undergraduates' vocational interests: People–thing orientation and goal affordances

Yang, Yang; Barth, Joan M.

doi:10.1016/j.jvb.2015.09.007

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“…Two publications with 13 measures reported the use of role congruity as a guiding framework. Measures such as People Orientation and Thing Orientation (Yang & Barth, ) and Communal Goal Endorsement (Diekman, Brown, Johnston, & Clark, ) were included.…”

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Career Assessment and Counseling for STEM: A Critical Review

Rottinghaus

Falk

Park

2018

The Career Development Quart

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Career counselors must continually enhance their knowledge and skills to assist clients contemplating careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Therefore, the authors review STEM disciplines and theory‐driven strategies for assisting diverse individuals to explore, enter, and persist in STEM careers. Appropriate use of career assessments can contribute greatly to this effort. To identify available measures for STEM‐focused domains and constructs, the authors conducted a journal content analysis of stand‐alone STEM‐related career assessments from 1983 to 2016, identifying 39 articles with 153 measures. Notable results included the emergence of social cognitive theory and social cognitive career theory as prevailing frameworks for instrument development, a wide variety of disciplines and journals represented, an underrepresentation of minority samples, and untapped potential for cross‐discipline and researcher–practitioner collaboration. Useful strategies and resources for counselors and recommendations for enhancing career assessments and interventions are addressed.

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Career Assessment and Counseling for STEM: A Critical Review

Rottinghaus

Falk

Park

2018

The Career Development Quart

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“…As seen in many studies and surveys, girls are less likely to choose technology careers (Schreiner & Sjøberg, 2005;Yang & Barth, 2015), and girls have lower self-efficacy in the subjects of physics and chemistry (Skolverket, 2008). Thus, girls might experience a disadvantage simply by participating in a competition named Teknikåttan, were the name is likely to be associated with the subjects of technology, physics and chemistry.…”

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“…In the more male-dominated STEM areas, such as engineering, in Sweden, about 30% of students today are female (UKÄ 2016), but the proportion is considerably less in programs that are most oriented towards physics and computer science. Yang and Barth (2015) discussed and analyzed women's greater tendency to choose areas of study in biology than in the more male-dominated fields like engineering, arguing that this depends both on how women relate to people-oriented and thing-oriented subjects and professions, i.e., how much interaction with people is involved, and in what way each subject area relates to how a woman is expected to be, given that it is often expected that women have a profession in which they make a positive social impact.…”

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“…The gender issue is a question often raised when discussing knowledge in and attitudes towards science and technology, mainly because it is an area in which clear gender differences have been observed, especially when it comes to how the different genders think of and choose their career paths (Buccheri, Gürber & Brühwiler, 2011;Schreiner & Sjøberg, 2010;Yang & Barth, 2015)technology, engineering, and mathematics. The issue is therefore addressed in the present study.…”

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The role of ‘Teknikåttan’– a competition aimed at increasing interest in science and technology for grade 8 students.

Gumaelius

Nymark

2017

NorDiNa

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Teknikåttan is a Swedish science, mathematics and technology tournament for 15-year-old students. Each year, approximately 30 % of the target group participates in the tournament, which is organized by 11 Swedish universities that offer engineering education. The present survey study investigates whether the initial quiz results can be used to evaluate young people's knowledge in relevant subjects and whether such an evaluation can broaden the collective understanding of young people's knowledge. This study looks at how students in Stockholm scored in the 2014 tournament and how the answers related to different subjects. Gender differences were analyzed as well. The results showed great variation in how the students responded to the 15 different questions. The most difficult question was related to chemistry and had 15 % correct answers, and the easiest question was related to mathematics and had 86 % correct answers. Girls and boys answered statistically differently in 10 of 15 questions. In contrast to other national and international data, boys performed better than girls on the majority of the questions. This paper argues that Teknikåttan results can be used as an evaluation tool to complement other more formal tools, yielding information on other aspects of students' knowledge in science, mathematics and technology. The quiz could be enhanced as a tool if the questions were somewhat better tailored to the study parameters. Other variables, such as nationality and the influence of particular schools, are discussed as considerations that may be important in future evaluation studies.

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“…The university provides a sense of process and globalization to one’s education primarily through the set of interactions that occur between teacher and student [10–13]. …”

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Ethical values in college education: a mixed-methods pilot study to assess health sciences students’ perceptions

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BackgroundSociety demands a university education grounded on ethical principles. Education in ethics values is responsibility of universities but will not be viable unless also adopted by directly responsible agents, the teachers who work with the students. For this reason, our primary research objective was to conduct an in-depth analysis of how Health Sciences students self-perceive the ethical dimension.MethodsA mixed research methodology with two phases, qualitative and quantitative, allowed us to address our research question from two complementary viewpoints. Conversational interviews were conducted in an intentional and purposive sample to identify a wide range of discursive representations. A questionnaire was designed based on previous studies and the topics of qualitative research. The response format for the questionnaire followed a Likert scale and modulators such as sex, age, degree and the score of a social desirability test were examined.ResultsAfter 24 conversational interviews, three main thematic blocks (coinciding with the three subscales of the questionnaire) were identified: “attitudes for harmony in human relations”, “construction of the self” and “rules and regulations”. A total of 246 students completed a questionnaire with 39 items. The total scores ranged from 93 to 152 points, with an average score of 122.72 ± 10.64 points. Responsibility, the basic rules of education and respect were perceived as the two most important values, whereas solidarity and social participation as the least important. Results showed a significant positive linear correlation between total score on the questionnaire and age and social desirability. Age was also a significant predictor for the total score and the subscale score “rules and regulations”. The students´ responses seemed to be conditioned by the degree of social desirability that they present.ConclusionsThe ad-hoc questionnaire captured the maintenance of high ethical values in our college undergraduate students, which may be directly related to enhanced social desirability. The scores obtained on the questionnaire were correlated with the students’ age, which may indicate that values might tend to acquire progressively more importance as students grow older. Further research is warranted to delve deeper on the determinants of professionalism and ethical decision-making in college students.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (10.1186/s12909-018-1396-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Gender differences in STEM undergraduates' vocational interests: People–thing orientation and goal affordances

Cited by 79 publications

References 23 publications

Career Assessment and Counseling for STEM: A Critical Review

Career Assessment and Counseling for STEM: A Critical Review

The role of ‘Teknikåttan’– a competition aimed at increasing interest in science and technology for grade 8 students.

Ethical values in college education: a mixed-methods pilot study to assess health sciences students’ perceptions

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