BO Chambers - Georgia Journal of Science, 2019 - digitalcommons.gaacademy.org

Increasing the Confidence of Student Scientists Through Academic Interventions at Minority-Serving Institutions.

Stem education interventions

Chambers

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Excerpt

According to the US Department of Education, there will be a need for 1 million more STEM professionals by 2022 (2016). Science and engineering careers, therefore, are jeopardized by the this threat of fewer prepared adolescents in the United States STEM workforce (NSB, 2003). Studies have shown that interest in science and later confidence as a scientist declines from Elementary to adolescence (Valenti, Masnick, Cox, & Osman, 2016). The literature references common themes related to motivation become a scientist and their …