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K Muenks, EG Peterson, AE Green, RA Kolvoord… - Sex Roles, 2020 - Springer

Parents' beliefs about high school students' spatial abilities: Gender differences and associations with parent encouragement to pursue a STEM career and students' ….

stem intervention research

Green, Kolvoord, Muenks, Peterson

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In the present study, we investigated whether parents' beliefs about their high school aged adolescents' spatial abilities (ie, spatial visualization, mental manipulation, and navigation abilities) differed based on their child's gender. We also examined whether these beliefs related to parents' encouragement of their child to pursue a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) career as well as students' actual STEM major and career intentions. Data were collected from 117 pairs of US high school students and one of …

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