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Yu, Hsiao-Ping; Jen, Enyi – High Ability Studies, 2021
The purpose of this research is to investigate the relations between gender roles, career self-efficacy, and career development of STEM gifted girls in high schools and universities in Taiwan, from a developmental perspective. It includes two studies. In Study 1, 473 gifted girls from eight high schools in Taiwan participated, and, based on a…
Descriptors: Sex Role, Self Efficacy, Academically Gifted, Females
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Wang, Hsin-Hui; Lin, Huann-shyang; Chen, Ya-Chun; Pan, Yi-Ting; Hong, Zuway-R. – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
This study explored how specific inquiry-related learning activities were related to student enjoyment of learning science and intended choice of future STEM career. Analysis of Taiwan and Australia PISA 2015 data revealed that three activities, namely, "debating and planning experiments, drawing conclusions and doing hands-on experiments,…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Inquiry, Learning Activities, Student Attitudes
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Mau, Wei-Cheng; Chen, Shr-Jya; Lin, Chi-Chau – Education Sciences, 2019
This study investigated the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the STEM Career Interest Survey (STEM-CCIS) with data from 590 high-school students in Taiwan. Measurement models based on Social-Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) and STEM discipline-specific dimensions (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) were examined using…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Interests, STEM Education, Career Choice
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Li, Jiaqi; Mau, Wei-Cheng Joseph; Chen, Shr-Jya; Lin, Tzu-Chi; Lin, Ting-Yu – Journal of Career Development, 2021
Although personal inputs and contextual variables in social cognitive career theory (SCCT) are recognized as key factors that affect career interests and choices, research has given minimal attention to the role of these variables in a collectivistic culture context. We present a study examining science, technology, engineering, and mathematics…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Science Careers, Career Development, Career Choice
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Laschke, Christin; Blömeke, Sigrid – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2016
The paper presents the challenges of cross-country and cross-cultural research on the motivation to become a mathematics teacher based on data from the "Teacher Education and Development Study in Mathematics" ("TEDS-M"). Referring to studies from cross-cultural psychology, measurement invariance (MI) of constructs representing…
Descriptors: Teacher Motivation, Mathematics Teachers, Career Choice, Teacher Education
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Lu, Ying-Yan; Chen, Hsiang-Ting; Hong, Zuway-R.; Yore, Larry D. – International Journal of Science Education, 2016
There appears to be a complex network of cognitive and affective factors that influence students' decisions to study science and motivate their choices to engage in science-oriented careers. This study explored 330 Taiwanese senior high school students' awareness of their science teacher's learning leadership and how it relates to the students'…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Science Teachers, Teacher Leadership, Positive Attitudes
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Liu, Yi-hui; Lou, Shi-jer; Shih, Ru-chu – South African Journal of Education, 2014
This study employed social cognitive theory and social cognitive career theory (SCCT) as foundations to explore the influence of high school students' beliefs about female gender roles and female engineer role models on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) self-efficacy and professional commitment to engineering. A total of 88…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Self Efficacy, Student Projects, Questionnaires