期刊名称：Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research
印刷版ISSN：1557-5284
电子版ISSN：1557-5284
出版年度：2021
卷号：22
期号：3
语种：English
出版社：Institute of STEM Education and Research
摘要：The present study focuses on the results of a four-year study that examined all four-year common participants' STEM major selection patterns. At the end of the fourth year, 626 open-enrollment charter school students were common participants in each year. We used quantitative method for the question 1 and 2 and a mainly qualitative focus for the question 3. Descriptive analyses revealed that CSS students had higher rates in STEM career interest in all categories including gender and race/ethnicity throughout each of the four years of the study. Being a male, having high science self-efficacy, and STEM club participation factors have a statistically significant effect on students' STEM major choice. For the question 3, students indicated that their parents and teachers, and courses taken in high school were their top three factors that influenced their STEM career selection.
