Relationship between High School Chemistry Students' Perceptions of a Constructivist Learning Environment and their STEM Career Expectations
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Considerable attention has been devoted to factors affecting the persistence of women and historically underrepresented ethnic groups in their science education trajectories. The literature has focused more on structural factors that affect longitudinal outcomes rather than classroom experiences. This exploratory survey study examined relationships among high school chemistry students’ perceptions of a constructivist learning environment (CLE) and STEM career expectations. The sample included 693 students from 7 public high schools within the San Francisco Bay Area. Students’ perceptions of a CLE predicted their expectations of entering a science career, but not engineering, computer, health, or mathematics-related careers. When all groups of students perceived the learning environment as more constructivist, they were more likely to expect science careers.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Date created | 2015 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Wild, Andrew |
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Subjects
| Subject | Social constructivism |
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| Subject | K-12 |
| Subject | Learning environment |
| Genre | Article |
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- Wild, A. (2015). Relationship between high school chemistry students' perceptions of a constructivist learning environment and their STEM career expectations. International Journal of Science Education.
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