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Direct linkKuijpers, Alma J.; Dam, Michiel; Janssen, Fred J. J. M. – Teacher Development, 2023
Understanding how teaching interest and motivation develop during the academic STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) study program is essential to design effective interventions to increase teacher recruitment. This article describes a new approach to study STEM teachers' career choice processes. The retrospective method, which…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Career Choice, Student Interests, Student Motivation
Download full textHeeg, Dagmar M.; Smith, Theila; Avraamidou, Lucy – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2022
The goal of this case study was to examine how a group of young children in a historically marginalized neighborhood in the northern part of the Netherlands perceived their engagement in an out-of-school, STEM community-based program aiming to enhance young children's interest and self-identification with science. We collected data through…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, STEM Education, Community Programs, Identification (Psychology)
van Rooij, E. C. M.; Fokkens-Bruinsma, M.; Goedhart, M. J. – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2020
The STEM teacher shortage in secondary education makes it important to investigate who is interested in becoming a STEM teacher, so that recruitment initiatives can be adjusted to these students' characteristics. A latent profile analysis on data from 905 STEM university students identified two types of students with teaching aspirations. The…
Descriptors: Identification, STEM Education, Teacher Shortage, Vocational Interests
Vennix, Johanna; den Brok, Perry; Taconis, Ruurd – International Journal of Science Education, 2018
The present study investigated outreach activities, developed by STEM-based companies or universities in co-creation with secondary education with the aim to inform students about and motivate them for a career in STEM by connecting the work-context with school-science. Although many of such activities are being offered, little is known about…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Secondary School Science, Student Attitudes, Student Motivation
Humburg, Martin – Education Economics, 2017
This paper demonstrates that the Big five personality traits (openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and emotional stability) measured at age 14 can be linked to field of study choice in university at around age 19. While personality matters less than cognitive skills, such as math ability and verbal ability, for…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Student Characteristics, Adolescents, Majors (Students)
Korpershoek, Hanke; Kuyper, Hans; Bosker, Roel; van der Werf, Greetje – Research Papers in Education, 2013
The main aim of the present study was to investigate why some students do not continue in science-oriented studies in higher education despite that their previous career in secondary education proved that they were interested and suitably qualified to do so. We introduced a new approach to deal with these students' attitudes towards science,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Student Attitudes, Influences, Attribution Theory
