Factors Influencing Science Career Intention: The Power of Counterspace.

IF 2.2 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Innovative Higher Education Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-11 DOI:10.1007/s10755-024-09752-2

Judith C P Lin, Sungmin Moon, Shu-Sha Angie Guan, Patchareeya P Kwan, Gilberto E Flores, Gabriela Chavira

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Abstract

The current study examined how participation in an undergraduate research experience (URE) that provides a counterspace affects sociocognitive factors (science self-efficacy, science identity, and academic self-concept) and how they, in turn, may shape science career intention in a sample of STEM undergraduate students. STEM majors from a public university in California completed surveys from 2017 to 2020 and rated their science identity, science self-efficacy, academic self-concept, and their intention to pursue a science-related research career. Structural equation modeling shows that URE participants reported higher (a) science self-efficacy, (b) science identity, and (c) academic self-concept relative to students who did not participate in the URE. While there was an indirect effect of science self-efficacy on science career intention mediated by science identity, higher science self-efficacy and academic self-concept were negatively associated with the intention to pursue a science career. MANOVA results suggest that URE participants fared better than non-URE students in all outcomes across all sub-groups. These results highlight the importance of an identity-focused UREs and the counterspace it fosters among STEM majors from diverse backgrounds.

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影响科学职业意向的因素：抗衡空间的力量。

目前的研究调查了参与提供抗衡空间的本科生研究经历（URE）如何影响社会认知因素（科学自我效能感、科学身份和学术自我概念），以及它们如何反过来影响STEM本科生样本中的科学职业意向。加州一所公立大学的STEM专业学生在2017年至2020年期间完成了调查，并对他们的科学身份、科学自我效能感、学术自我概念以及追求科学相关研究职业的意愿进行了评分。结构方程模型显示，与没有参加URE的学生相比，URE参与者报告了更高的(a)科学自我效能，(b)科学认同和(c)学术自我概念。科学自我效能感在科学认同的中介作用下对科学职业意向有间接影响，较高的科学自我效能感和学术自我概念对科学职业意向有负相关影响。方差分析结果表明，在所有亚组的所有结果中，URE参与者的表现都优于非URE学生。这些结果突出了以身份为中心的课程的重要性，以及它在来自不同背景的STEM专业学生中培养的抗衡空间。

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Innovative Higher Education EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-

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4.30

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9.10%

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期刊介绍： Innovative Higher Education is a refereed scholarly journal that strives to package fresh ideas in higher education in a straightforward and readable fashion. The four main purposes of Innovative Higher Education are: (1) to present descriptions and evaluations of current innovations and provocative new ideas with relevance for action beyond the immediate context in higher education; (2) to focus on the effect of such innovations on teaching and students; (3) to be open to diverse forms of scholarship and research methods by maintaining flexibility in the selection of topics deemed appropriate for the journal; and (4) to strike a balance between practice and theory by presenting manuscripts in a readable and scholarly manner to both faculty and administrators in the academic community.