BL Dorie, TR Jones, MC Pollock, M Cardella - 2014 - docs.lib.purdue.edu

Parents as critical influence: Insights from five different studies.

Broadening participation informal stem education

Cardella, Dorie, Jones, Pollock

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Parents play a number of roles in engineering education: they can motivate children's interest in engineering in early childhood, as well as later when their child is in the process of selecting a major at college, they can provide support in learning engineering concepts and thinking skills, and can serve as role models if they themselves are engineers. Several empirical studies have shown that parents play a significant role in the occupational aspiration and career goal development of their children. In addition, parents' own beliefs …

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