期刊名称：Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education
印刷版ISSN：1305-8223
电子版ISSN：1305-8223
出版年度：2018
卷号：14
期号：10
页码：1-17
DOI：10.29333/ejmste/92286
出版社：Pamukkale Univ Dept Sci Education
摘要：This study examines the relationships between attitudes toward all core STEM subjects
and interest in STEM careers among 4th through 12th grade US students through the
administration of the Student Attitudes toward STEM (S-STEM) Survey to over 15,000
public school students. The research developed a model based on expectancy-value
theory that incorporates key demographic factors of age, gender, and race/ethnicity.
Our findings reinforce prior research that students across key demographic factors
perceive biological/clinical and physical science career paths differently, resulting in
two career clusters. Of interest, the relationship of mathematics attitudes to career
interest varied by STEM career cluster. Findings were also supportive of the conclusion
that students’ attitudes towards STEM careers are not static over their primary and
secondary grades, stabilizing and leveling during their secondary years. Gender
showed significantly different interest levels for the two career clusters: males higher
for physical sciences and females higher for biological/clinical sciences. Racial/ethnic
disparity in STEM career interests can be seen more readily in physical sciences and
engineering than in the biological sciences. Overall, our work reinforces findings that
students, as young as elementary grades, are forming attitudinal associations between
their academic and life experience and future STEM careers.
关键词：attitudes; career interest; K-12; outcome expectancy; self-efficacy; STEM
