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| Abstract Title: | Investigating the role of prior preparation and self-efficacy on female and male students’ introductory physics course achievements |
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| Abstract: | Research suggests that self-efficacy is one of the central factors in predicting students' engagement, participation and retention in STEM fields. Physics is one of the STEM fields in which women are severely under-represented and prior research suggests that women often underperform on conceptual assessments and sometimes even on the final exam. Women also report lower self-efficacy than men in physics. We studied female and male students' self-efficacy and its relation to learning outcomes in introductory physics courses. We discuss examination of students' self-efficacy scores across gender and investigation of the extent to which self-efficacy mediates learning outcomes for male and female students controlling for students' academic prior preparation. We thank the National Science Foundation for support. |
| Abstract Type: | Contributed Poster Presentation |
| Session Time: | Poster Session II |
| Poster Number: | B9 |
| Contributed Paper Record: | Contributed Paper Information |
| Contributed Paper Download: | Download Contributed Paper |
Author/Organizer Information | |
| Primary Contact: |
Z. Yasemin Kalender University of Pittsburgh |
| Co-Author(s) and Co-Presenter(s) |
Emily Marshman, Christian D. Schunn, Timothy J. Nokes-Malach, and Chandralekha Singh |
