Identity, Critical Agency, and Engineering: An Affective Model for Predicting Engineering as a Career Choice
Purdue University West Lafayette · Florida International University · +1 more institution
Abstract
Abstract Background Prior to college, many students have no experience with engineering, but some ultimately choose an engineering career. Women choose engineering at lower rates than men. This article uses critical engineering agency (CEA) to understand first‐year students' attitudes and self‐beliefs to predict the choice of an engineering career. Purpose/Hypothesis We investigated how first‐year students' math and physics identities and students' beliefs about the ability of science to improve the world predict choice of engineering as a career and whether these beliefs differ by gender. Design/Method The data were from the Sustainability and Gender in Engineering survey distributed during fall 2011 ( N =…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 65.41
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 110
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4Topics & keywords
- Competence (human resources)
- Agency (philosophy)
- Engineering education
- Identity (music)
- Psychology
- Variance (accounting)
- Social psychology
- Mathematics education