The Development and Validation of Instrument for Measuring High School Students' STEM Career Motivation

Sein, Shin; Ha, Minsu; Lee, Jun‐Ki

doi:10.14697/jkase.2016.36.1.0075

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“…In the literature, there are studies on STEM careers (Holmes et al, 2018;Kiriktas & Sahin, 2019;LaForce et al, 2017;Miller et al, 2018) and scale development and adaptation studies (Kier et al, 2014;Shin et al, 2016;Tyler-Wood et al, 2010). On the other hand, there is a serious paucity of experimental studies on STEM careers.…”

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Designing and implementing a STEM career maturity program for prospective counselors

2021

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Background Although the importance of directing students to career options in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields at early ages has been emphasized in the literature, it has not been clearly stated just who will play a role in this process and what kind of consultancy process will be followed. It is of great importance for prospective counselors, who are studying in the field of counseling, to master the career selection process, specifically for STEM, towards achieving the national goals. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the career counseling competencies of prospective counselors who were participating in a STEM career maturity program. Findings The current study employed the mixed-methods sequential explanatory design. In this design, after collecting and analyzing the quantitative and qualitative data, both datasets were then interpreted together. The quantitative data analysis revealed a significant difference between the post-test mean career counseling and performance indicator scores of the experimental and the control groups (u = 49.00; P < 0.05). The career counseling and performance indicator mean rank and sum of mean scores of the students in the experimental group were higher than those of the students in the control group. The mean career counseling and performance indicator scores of the students in the experimental group increased after the experimental application (Z = – 3.07; P < 0.01). Moreover, the effect size was also calculated and determined to be 0.58. As a result of the analysis of qualitative data, 4 themes were established, comprising (1) personal and professional development, (2) awareness of the STEM majors and careers, (3) STEM-focused career counseling, and (4) feedback about the program. Conclusions This study found that the STEM career maturity program that was designed and implemented herein resulted in positive impacts on the career counseling competencies and performance indicators of the participants, as well as their knowledge and awareness of professional STEM areas. Considering the role of school counselors in supporting students in choosing STEM careers, this newly proposed STEM career maturity program will provide a strong model for supporting pre-service and in-service school counselors in directing students towards STEM fields, so as to develop a qualified workforce in STEM fields, which is one of the main objectives of the STEM education reform.

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“…SCCT posits that career development is influenced by continuous interactions between personal cognitive factors (e.g., self-efficacy) and contextual factors (e.g., parental support; Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 1994). In this study, seven constructs of STEM career motivation suggested by Shin, Ha, and Lee (2016) within the SCCT framework were included. Lent et al (1994) proposed that support from the external environment plays a role as a critical regulator in the process of individual career development.…”

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“…The STEM career motivation (STEM-CM) instrument developed by Shin et al (2016) was used to assess STEM career motivation. It has been previously validated on Korean samples by a combination of IRT-Rasch and Classical Test Theory (CTT; Shin et al, 2016).…”

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“…It has been previously validated on Korean samples by a combination of IRT-Rasch and Classical Test Theory (CTT; Shin et al, 2016). The STEM-CM measures seven subcomponents of STEM career motivation: educational experience, career value, academic self-efficacy, career self-efficacy, career interest, parental support, and goal setting.…”

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“…Because of the issue of sample independence in Rasch (Boone & Scantlebury, 2006), it was not necessary to test the validity of the STEM-CM instrument for Indonesian data. However, dimensionality of the instrument was not psychometrically examined in the study of Shin et al (2016). Therefore, we tested the dimensionality of the STEM-CM instrument using Rasch analysis in data from both countries to determine whether the data better supported a multi-dimensional instrument or a unidimensional interpretation of the instruments.…”

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The STEM field faces challenges related to uncertainties about the number and composition of skilled workforce. Measuring STEM career motivation (STEM-CM) of students at an early grade is crucial to improve the quality of science learning and to engage more students in STEM fields. This study focuses on the gender and academic level issues related to STEM career motivation. A total of 1583 elementary and middle school students participated in investigating two research questions: (1) Do gender and academic level impact students’ STEM career motivation? (2) How to classify students based on their STEM-CM? This study revealed that gender was not significantly related to STEM-CM. Nonetheless, academic level impacted significantly with STEM-CM where students’ motivation declined from elementary to middle school. Furthermore, the clustering method elicited five groups of students for consideration in designing STEM teaching activities. The influenced factors of students’ motivation for STEM careers were discussed. Finally, customized learning to improve student engagement in STEM was recommended.

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The Development and Validation of Instrument for Measuring High School Students' STEM Career Motivation

Cited by 9 publications

References 28 publications

Designing and implementing a STEM career maturity program for prospective counselors

Designing and implementing a STEM career maturity program for prospective counselors

Career motivation of secondary students in STEM: a cross-cultural study between Korea and Indonesia

Indonesian students’ STEM career motivation: a study focused on gender and academic level

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