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Math Self-Efficacy and STEM Intentions: A Person-Centered Approach
Research pertaining to STEM interest and persistence continues to be a top priority in the educational research arena. The current study employed a person-centered approach to examine the impact of math self-efficacy and various distal predictors, such as individuals’ demographic information, belief...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6206556/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30405504 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02033 |
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author | Lin, Li Lee, Taehun Snyder, Lori Anderson |
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description | Research pertaining to STEM interest and persistence continues to be a top priority in the educational research arena. The current study employed a person-centered approach to examine the impact of math self-efficacy and various distal predictors, such as individuals’ demographic information, beliefs about math, and social group identification, on STEM interest and intentions. Specifically, we conducted a latent profile analysis (LPA), thereby inferring three homogeneous subgroups of individuals or latent classes from their response patterns on the 18-item sources of math self-efficacy measure. Our analyses showed that individuals’ ethnicity, implicit theories of math ability, and other group orientation were predictive of class membership (Mastery, Moderate, and Unconfident). We also found that there were significant differences in interest in STEM subjects, interest in STEM activities, individuals’ majors, and retention grade point average across the three latent classes. Our findings support the importance of math self-efficacy in choice of major as well as overall academic performance regardless of whether a student is in a STEM field or a non-STEM field. |
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spelling | pubmed-62065562018-11-07 Math Self-Efficacy and STEM Intentions: A Person-Centered Approach Lin, Li Lee, Taehun Snyder, Lori Anderson Front Psychol Psychology Research pertaining to STEM interest and persistence continues to be a top priority in the educational research arena. The current study employed a person-centered approach to examine the impact of math self-efficacy and various distal predictors, such as individuals’ demographic information, beliefs about math, and social group identification, on STEM interest and intentions. Specifically, we conducted a latent profile analysis (LPA), thereby inferring three homogeneous subgroups of individuals or latent classes from their response patterns on the 18-item sources of math self-efficacy measure. Our analyses showed that individuals’ ethnicity, implicit theories of math ability, and other group orientation were predictive of class membership (Mastery, Moderate, and Unconfident). We also found that there were significant differences in interest in STEM subjects, interest in STEM activities, individuals’ majors, and retention grade point average across the three latent classes. Our findings support the importance of math self-efficacy in choice of major as well as overall academic performance regardless of whether a student is in a STEM field or a non-STEM field. Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-10-23 /pmc/articles/PMC6206556/ /pubmed/30405504 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02033 Text en Copyright © 2018 Lin, Lee and Snyder. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Lin, Li Lee, Taehun Snyder, Lori Anderson Math Self-Efficacy and STEM Intentions: A Person-Centered Approach |
title | Math Self-Efficacy and STEM Intentions: A Person-Centered Approach |
title_full | Math Self-Efficacy and STEM Intentions: A Person-Centered Approach |
title_fullStr | Math Self-Efficacy and STEM Intentions: A Person-Centered Approach |
title_full_unstemmed | Math Self-Efficacy and STEM Intentions: A Person-Centered Approach |
title_short | Math Self-Efficacy and STEM Intentions: A Person-Centered Approach |
title_sort | math self-efficacy and stem intentions: a person-centered approach |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6206556/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30405504 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02033 |
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