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Siani, Alessandro; Harris, Jasmine – Open Education Studies, 2023
Gendered barriers in education and attrition along the academic and professional pipeline are key determinants of the current STEM skills shortage. While enrolment in STEM undergraduate courses has been increasing in the recent decades, STEM degree choices still suffer from considerable gender imbalance, whereby women are underrepresented in…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Single Sex Schools, Females, Self Esteem
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Gong, Xiaoyang; Bergey, Bradley W.; Jin, Ying; Mao, Kexin; Cheng, Yan – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2023
Students' perceived values and costs of learning chemistry influence their performance and intentions of choosing chemistry-related majors or careers. Based on Situated Expectancy-Value Theory, this study adopted a mixed method approach to examine the conceptualization of values and costs among Chinese high school students and identify their…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, High School Students, Chemistry, Science Instruction
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Erica L. Cheva – Voices of Reform, 2023
The purpose of this study was to research the impact of classroom group rotation on student participation and collaboration during engineering activities. The action research plan was developed after identifying a need to increase group efficacy in a classroom setting that focuses on projects and problem-based learning and proved quite difficult…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Cooperation, Group Activities, Engineering Education
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Lili Toh; Helen M. G. Watt – Australian Educational Researcher, 2024
An explanation for the underrepresentation of women in mathematical fields is the communal goal congruity perspective; that women tend to value communal over agentic goals, perceived to not be afforded by mathematical careers. Less is known about how agentic and communal goals may interact to influence mathematical career trajectories. Analysing a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Secondary School Students, Longitudinal Studies
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Nurit Paz-Baruch – Educational Studies, 2024
The study identified the cognitive mechanisms that underly individual differences in mathematics and reading. There is little systematic evidence regarding the connections between cognitive capabilities, mathematics and reading among high-school students with typical development. Moreover, the study aimed to examine whether or not gender is…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Cognitive Processes, Mathematics Achievement, Reading Achievement
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Erin E. Hardin; Sean Murphy; Melinda M. Gibbons – Journal of Career Development, 2024
We investigated environmental supports, an understudied aspect of Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT), with rural Appalachian youth, an understudied population. We developed a new measure of proximal influences that bolster the pursuit of postsecondary education, the Assessment of Postsecondary Supports (APSS). Across 3 studies, we develop and…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Youth, Environmental Influences, Evaluation
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Luhao Wei; Mengqian Shen; Urip Purwono; Doran C. French – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2024
Three-year longitudinal and concurrent associations of leadership with overt aggression, exclusion of others, effortful control (EC), popularity, unpopularity, prosocial behavior, and academic achievement were assessed in this study of Indonesian adolescents. Participants were initially assessed in the 10th grade (n = 462, 256 girls; M[subscript…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Grade 10, Peer Acceptance
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Guy Cohen; Anat Cohen – European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 2024
Developing self-regulated learning (SRL) skills among young adolescents is crucial for lifelong learning, and teachers play a vital role in fostering these skills. Problem-solving is a key SRL skill; however, both learners and teachers encounter challenges during the problem-solving process and in evaluating its incorporated strategies. To tackle…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Video Technology, Self Management, Learning Strategies
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Silvia Galano; Lucio Palazzo; Italo Testa – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
Astronomy is seen as a "gateway" science, inspiring students to pursue Science-Technology-Engineering-Mathematics (STEM) related careers. However, there is little evidence that students' attitudes towards astronomy remain stable over time. By integrating Self-Determination Theory (SDT) and Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB), we identified…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, STEM Education, Student Attitudes, Astronomy
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Dayce Makakole Chuene; Florah Moleko Teane – South African Journal of Education, 2024
South African teachers experience challenges with the implementation of the national school curriculum -- the "Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement" (CAPS). In this regard, teachers may not feel empowered to effectively deal with the demands of the current educational policy. Concerns have been expressed about learners' poor…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Curriculum Implementation, Biological Sciences, Science Teachers
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Zeynep Baskan Takaoglu – Journal of Science Learning, 2024
Multiple representations are widely recognized for their significant role in concept learning. This study aimed to investigate the multiple representation translation skills of high school students at different grade levels about the concept of one-dimensional motion. 239 9th, 10th, and 11th-grade students participated in the study using a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Thinking Skills, Learning Strategies
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Shiyu Xie – SAGE Open, 2024
This study aims to reveal the cognitive demands of senior high school English as a foreign language textbooks in China and their potential impact on students' thinking development. To achieve this, the study employed content analysis, using an analytical framework adapted from the revised Bloom's taxonomy, to examine the cognitive demands…
Descriptors: Taxonomy, High School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Aeri Song; Jung Won Hur – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2024
The purpose of this study was to investigate the leadership development of Korean American youth who participated in a community-based participatory action research program designed to assist community members affected by COVID-19. Participants were drawn from a small town in the southeastern part of the U.S. Using a case study approach, multiple…
Descriptors: Korean Americans, Adolescents, Leadership, Skill Development
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Dareen Shukri A. Alnaser; Sufian Forawi – Science Education International, 2024
Allowing students to practice science inquiry in the classroom is fundamental for science education. Students should master investigation skills, promoting their understanding of science concepts. Virtual laboratories have emerged as a powerful interactive tool that can be a suitable alternative to real laboratories, especially when lacking enough…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Science, Grade 7
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Suzanne Dupuis-Blanchard; Danielle Thériault – SAGE Open, 2023
A scarcity of workers calls into doubt our capacity to support and care for an aging population. To gain a better understanding of the next generation of potential workers that will serve the aging population, 644 French-speaking students in grades 10 and 11 in the province of New Brunswick (Canada) were surveyed. The goals were to learn more…
Descriptors: High School Students, Career Exploration, Grade 10, Grade 11
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