Conference proceeding
Examining reasons undergraduate women join physics
2021 PHYSICS EDUCATION RESEARCH CONFERENCE (PERC), pp 135-140
01 Jan 2022
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Abstract
This study examines survey data from 2,129 undergraduate women at the 2015 and 2019 American Physical Society Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) in order to classify what led them to study physics. We use expectancy-value and self-efficacy theory to create a coding framework based on different types of value and efficacy expectations in order to group responses. We find that the most common attractions are social persuasion, which is due to pressure or persuasion from people around the students, and intrinsic value, which is related to the inherent value of engaging in physics.
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Details
- Title
- Examining reasons undergraduate women join physics
- Creators
- Maxwell Franklin - Drexel UniversityEric Brewe - Drexel UniversityAnnette R. Ponnock - Yale UniversityRenee Michelle Goertzen - American Physical Society
- Contributors
- M B Bennett (Editor)B W Frank (Editor)R E Vieyra (Editor)
- Publication Details
- 2021 PHYSICS EDUCATION RESEARCH CONFERENCE (PERC), pp 135-140
- Series
- Physics Education Research Conference
- Publisher
- Amer Assoc Physics Teachers
- Number of pages
- 6
- Grant note
- PHY 2011766; PHY 1346627; PHY 1622510 / NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program; National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Physics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000885102500022
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85124293499
- Other Identifier
- 991021877487304721
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- Collaboration types
- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Education & Educational Research
- Education, Scientific Disciplines
- Physics, Multidisciplinary