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SM Solanki, D Xu - American Educational Research Journal, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com

Looking beyond academic performance: The influence of instructor gender on student motivation in STEM fields.

Stem education interventions

Xu

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Recruiting more female faculty has been suggested as a policy option for addressing gender disparities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields given its ability to engage female students through a role model effect. While a small but growing body of literature has examined the role of instructor gender at the higher education level, it typically focuses only on academic outcomes. This paper utilizes a unique data set that includes not only information about student course performance in STEM but also a number …

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