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Direct linkAlysa Malespina; Chandralekha Singh – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2024
In this article, we describe a study in which a validated motivational survey was used to investigate the effect of working in mixed or same-gender groups on physics self-efficacy and self-reported peer influence on self-efficacy in a calculus-based introductory physics course in which women are severely underrepresented both in our sample and in…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Interaction, Self Efficacy, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
Calkins, Avery; Binder, Ariel J.; Shaat, Dana; Timpe, Brenden – RAND Corporation, 2020
We leverage variation in the timing of women's colleges' transitions to coeducation throughout the 1960s-2000s to study how exposure to a gendered social environment affects women's human capital investments. Applying event study and synthetic control analyses to newly collected historical data, we find that the share of women majoring in STEM at…
Descriptors: Single Sex Colleges, Coeducation, Majors (Students), Females
Mazur, Julie A. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Women's colleges are currently struggling to remain solvent and germane to today's higher education landscape. Despite the struggles, women's colleges have provided inimitable, valuable, and engaging experiences for the students who enroll at these traditionally small, liberal arts focused institutions. As the small number of women entering STEM…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, STEM Education, College Students, Females
Law, Helen; Sikora, Joanna – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2020
Single-sex schooling is believed to benefit students' academic achievement and girls' engagement in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM). The latter is assumed because single-sex environments are meant to neutralise gender stereotypes. Little is known, however, about longer term effects of such schooling. Therefore,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Single Sex Schools, Gender Bias, STEM Education
Belichesky, Jennifer – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to expand on the current research pertaining to women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors, better understand the experiences of undergraduate women in the sciences, identify barriers to female persistence in their intended STEM majors, and understand the impact of the STEM co-educational…
Descriptors: Living Learning Centers, STEM Education, Females, Intervention
Szelényi, Katalin; Denson, Nida; Inkelas, Karen Kurotsuchi – Research in Higher Education, 2013
Using data from the 2004-2007 National Study of Living Learning Programs, the only national dataset offering longitudinal information on outcomes associated with living-learning (L/L) program participation, this study investigated the role of L/L programs and other college environments in the professional outcome expectations of women in science,…
Descriptors: Females, STEM Education, Majors (Students), Living Learning Centers
