E Mackenzie, N Berger, K Holmes - Issues in Educational …, 2021 - search.informit.org

Predicting adolescent girls' intentions to study science in senior high school.

STEM and girls

Berger, Holmes, Mackenzie

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Excerpt

Women continue to be under-represented in science fields in Australia and internationally. Efforts to fix the'leaky pipeline'producing this inequality are frustrated by declining enrolments in higher-level school science subjects. Researchers and policymakers need a better understanding of the factors which influence girls' decisions to take science in senior high school. In this pilot study, we examined whether growth mindset in science, achievement goal orientation, self-efficacy, and perceived peer and teacher support …

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