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Examining physics identity development through two high school interventions
written by Hemeng Cheng, Geoff Potvin, Raina Khatri, Laird H. Kramer, Robynne M. Lock, and Zahra Hazari
As part of the STEP UP 4 Women project, a national initiative to empower high school teachers to recruit women to pursue physics degrees in college, we developed two lessons for high school physics classes that are intended to facilitate the physics identity development of female students. One discusses physics careers and links to students' own values and goals; the other focuses on a discussion of underrepresentation of women in physics with the intention of having students elicit and examine stereotypes in physics. In piloting these lessons, we found statistically significant improvements in students' identities, particularly recognition beliefs (feeling recognized by others as a physics person) and beliefs in a future physics career. Moreover, female students have larger gains than male students in future beliefs (seeing themselves as physicists in the future) from both lessons, which makes it promising to contribute to alleviating the underrepresentation of women in physics. Using structural equation modeling, we test a path model of various physics identity constructs, extending an earlier, established model. In this paper, we also compare a preliminary structural analysis of students' physics identities before and after the career lesson, with an eye towards understanding how students' identities develop over time and due to these experiences.
Physics Education Research Conference 2018
Part of the PER Conference series
Washington, DC: August 1-2, 2018
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Education - Applied Research
- Careers
- Recruitment
= Diversity
Education - Basic Research
- Cognition
- Sample Population
= Gender
- Societal Issues
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- Student Characteristics
- High School
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H. Cheng, G. Potvin, R. Khatri, L. Kramer, R. Lock, and Z. Hazari, , presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2018, Washington, DC, 2018, WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=14769&DocID=4916).
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H. Cheng, G. Potvin, R. Khatri, L. Kramer, R. Lock, and Z. Hazari, Examining physics identity development through two high school interventions, presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2018, Washington, DC, 2018, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=14769&DocID=4916>.
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Cheng, H., Potvin, G., Khatri, R., Kramer, L., Lock, R., & Hazari, Z. (2018, August 1-2). Examining physics identity development through two high school interventions. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2018, Washington, DC. Retrieved November 11, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=14769&DocID=4916
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Cheng, H, G. Potvin, R. Khatri, L. Kramer, R. Lock, and Z. Hazari. "Examining physics identity development through two high school interventions." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2018, Washington, DC, August 1-2, 2018. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=14769&DocID=4916 (accessed 11 November 2024).
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Cheng, Hemeng, Geoff Potvin, Raina Khatri, Laird Kramer, Robynne Lock, and Zahra Hazari. "Examining physics identity development through two high school interventions." Physics Education Research Conference 2018. Washington, DC: 2018. of PER Conference. 11 Nov. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=14769&DocID=4916>.
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