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| Abstract Title: | Examining physicists’ perspectives of career viability and knowledge of impairment |
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| Abstract: | Physics mentors play an important role in supporting students in postsecondary education and in their transition to graduate school and careers. The knowledge and beliefs physics mentors have about disability can affect how they mentor students with disabilities. We administered the Disability and Physics Careers Survey (DPCS) to 237 practicing physicists recruited through physics-specific listservs to measure their knowledge about disability and beliefs about the viability of physics careers for people with different disability diagnoses. This study compares practicing physicists' varied knowledge about different categories of impairments and diagnoses, and their beliefs about the viability of future careers for students with specific impairments. We present our findings examining the knowledge of practicing physicists about disability, their beliefs about the viability of certain physics careers for people with disabilities, and how those beliefs may vary depending on their personal disability experience |
| Abstract Type: | Contributed Poster Presentation |
| Session Time: | Poster Session 2 Room D |
| Poster Number: | 2D-8 |
| Contributed Paper Record: | Contributed Paper Information |
| Contributed Paper Download: | Download Contributed Paper |
Author/Organizer Information | |
| Primary Contact: |
Daniel Oleynik University of Central Florida Orlando, FL 32826 Phone: 2487054518 |
| Co-Author(s) and Co-Presenter(s) |
Erin Scanlon Department of Physics, University of Connecticut - Avery Point, Groton, CT 06340 Jacquelyn J. Chini Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, 4111 Libra Drive, Orlando, Florida, 32816 |
