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ERIC Number: ED658461
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 10
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Underrepresented Students' Motivational Attitudes in Mathematics
Dalton D. Marsh
North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (45th, Reno, NV, Oct 1-4, 2023)
It is widely agreed that attitudes about mathematics play an important role in students' performance, choice, and persistence in STEM. Motivational theories posit this link and suggest that differences in these attitudes should explain in part why female, Black, Hispanic, low-income, and first-generation students are underrepresented in STEM fields in the United States. This study employed nationally representative data from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09) and structural equation modeling to study five types of math attitudes: self-efficacy, identity, interest, utility, and cost. Multi-group factor analytic methods were used to compare mean levels of these attitudes across subgroups based on STEM career expectations, college generational status, parent income, gender, and race. The results suggest that explaining underrepresentation in STEM via differences in motivational attitudes is not straightforward. [For the complete proceedings, see ED658295.]
North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. e-mail: pmena.steeringcommittee@gmail.com; Web site: http://www.pmena.org/
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (NCES)
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