Download or read book Exploring the Undergraduate Experience of Latina Students in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics STEM Majors written by Sandy C. Carbajal and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Drawing from Latino/a Critical Race Theory and the related Community Cultural Wealth (CCW) model, I concentrate on three forms of CCW--aspirational, navigational, and resistance capital--for this qualitative study on the undergraduate experience of Latina students in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) majors, focusing on strategies and achieving baccalaureate attainment. I interviewed ten Latina students and asked them questions regarding their educational experiences in STEM majors, what contributed to their degree completion, and the strategies they employed for achieving baccalaureate attainment. I identified and described six themes within the study (the underrepresentation of Latinas in STEM majors, the lack of preparation by academic programs for upper division courses, motivators, involvement, time management, and support networks) that, when combined, contributed to participants' degree attainment. This study concludes with implications for policy and practice that would allow universities to better assist Latinas in STEM majors to achieve baccalaureate attainment.
Download or read book An Asset Based Approach to Advancing Latina Students in STEM written by Elsa M. Gonzalez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely volume challenges the ongoing underrepresentation of Latina women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), and highlights resilience as a critical communal response to increasing their representation in degree programs and academic posts. An Asset-Based Approach to Advancing Latina Students in STEM documents the racialized and gendered experiences of Latinas studying and researching in STEM in US colleges, and centers resilience as a critical mechanism in combating deficit narratives. Adopting an asset-based approach, chapters illustrate how Latinas draw on their cultural background as a source of individual and communal strength, and indicate how this cultural wealth must be nurtured and used to inform leadership and policy to motivate, encourage, and support Latinas on the pathway to graduate degrees and successful STEM careers. By highlighting strategies to increase personal resilience and institutional retention of Latina women, the text offers key insights to bolstering diversity in STEM. This text will primarily appeal to academics, scholars, educators, and researchers in the fields of STEM education. It will also benefit those working in broader areas of higher education and multicultural education, as well as those interested in the advancement of minorities inside and outside of academia. Elsa M. Gonzalez is Assistant Professor of Higher Education at the University of Houston, USA. Frank Fernandez is Assistant Professor of Higher Education at the University of Mississippi, USA. Miranda Wilson earned a Ph.D. in Higher Education Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Houston, USA.
Download or read book Exploring the Latina o Undergraduate Experience written by Raquel Torres and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Undergraduate Research Experiences for STEM Students written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-05-19 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Undergraduate research has a rich history, and many practicing researchers point to undergraduate research experiences (UREs) as crucial to their own career success. There are many ongoing efforts to improve undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education that focus on increasing the active engagement of students and decreasing traditional lecture-based teaching, and UREs have been proposed as a solution to these efforts and may be a key strategy for broadening participation in STEM. In light of the proposals questions have been asked about what is known about student participation in UREs, best practices in UREs design, and evidence of beneficial outcomes from UREs. Undergraduate Research Experiences for STEM Students provides a comprehensive overview of and insights about the current and rapidly evolving types of UREs, in an effort to improve understanding of the complexity of UREs in terms of their content, their surrounding context, the diversity of the student participants, and the opportunities for learning provided by a research experience. This study analyzes UREs by considering them as part of a learning system that is shaped by forces related to national policy, institutional leadership, and departmental culture, as well as by the interactions among faculty, other mentors, and students. The report provides a set of questions to be considered by those implementing UREs as well as an agenda for future research that can help answer questions about how UREs work and which aspects of the experiences are most powerful.
Download or read book The Borderlands of Education written by Michelle Madsen Camacho and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-03-22 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative work critically studies the contemporary problems of one segment of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education. The lack of a diverse U.S.-based pool of talent entering the field of engineering education has been termed a crisis by academic and political leaders. Engineering remains one of the most sex segregated academic arenas; the intersection of gendered and racialized exclusion results in very few Latina engineers. Drawing on cutting-edge scholarship in gender and Latino/a studies, the book provides an analytically incisive view of the experiences of Latina engineers. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation through a Gender in Science and Engineering grant, the authors bridge interdisciplinary perspectives to illuminate the nuanced and multiple exclusionary forces that shape the culture of engineering. A large, multi-institution, longitudinal dataset permits disaggregation by race and gender. The authors rely on primary and secondary sources and incorporate an integrated mixed-methods approach combining quantitative and qualitative data. Together, this analysis of the voices of Latina engineering majors breaks new ground in the literature on STEM education and provides an exemplar for future research on subpopulations in these fields. This book is aimed at researchers who study underrepresented groups in engineering and are interested in broadening participation and ameliorating problems of exclusion. It will be attractive to scholars in the fields of multicultural and higher education, sociology, cultural anthropology, cultural studies, and feminist technology studies, and all researchers interested in the intersections of STEM, race, and gender. This resource will be useful for policy-makers and educational leaders looking to revitalize and re-envision the culture within engineering.
Download or read book The First generation Latino Male College Student Experience Persisting in a STEM Major at a Four year Public University written by Sergio Armando Lagunas and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This qualitative research study investigated the first-generation Latino male experience persisting in a STEM major at a four-year public university. STEM is an acronym for science technology engineering and math. The current literature on Latino male students in STEM majors is limited, and most of the literature on persistence in STEM majors is related to studies on the female narrative or an integrative group such as minorities, ethnic groups or underrepresented students. In 2016, Latinos became 17 percent of the total United States population (Phillips, 2016). Enrollment trends in Latino students entering a STEM major in college are perceived to be the outcome from the growing Latino population in the United States. This study aimed to analyze the Latino male student experience. The literature review for this study included research on first-generation students and their experience derived from the lack of cultural capital, the development of their social integration in higher education, and the development of their academic integration in higher education. The literature review also included research on Latino students persisting in a STEM major with a focus on academic confidence, pre-college preparation and attrition. The literature review also covered research on the Social Cognitive Career Theory, a theoretical framework that expanded on self-efficacy, college major choice and career choice (Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 1994). Statement of the Problem: U.S. National government educational research has indicated that there is a low percentage of Latino college students earning certificates and degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM); furthermore, there is a need to explore how first-generation Latino males persist in STEM majors and what barriers may potentially lead to attrition at a public four-year university. Specific questions addressed were: 1. What leads a first-generation Latino male student to persist in their STEM major at a public four-year university? 2. What potential barriers does a first-generation Latino male student overcome to persist in their STEM major at a public four-year university? Methodology: This qualitative research study investigated the first-generation Latino male student experience persisting in a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics major through a narrative inquiry. The qualitative research study was conducted with semi-structured individual interviews of six students who met the purposive sample criteria. This research study was designed to explore the experience of Latino male college students and their persistence in STEM majors through the theoretical framework of Social Cognitive Career Theory. Conclusions and Recommendations: This qualitative research study resulted in a list of eight strategies for persistence for first-generation Latino males in STEM. These strategies are (a) study groups, (b) institutional programs, (c) student organizations, (d) tutoring services, (e) peer mentoring, (f) support groups, (g) family expectations, and (h) fitness facility. The most significant strategies for persistence in STEM involved social integration, academic integration and career interests. This qualitative research study resulted in a list of seven major barriers of first-generation Latino males in STEM. These barriers were: (a) lack of Latino faculty in STEM, (b) seeking help, (c) asking questions, (d) family responsibilities, (e) course availability, (f) lack of self-efficacy, and (g) working off-campus. The most significant barriers in STEM involved cultural capital, self-efficacy, and expectations of Latino masculinity. Consideration for future research on persistence of first-generation Latino male students at a public four-year university may include more in-depth evaluation of pre-college preparation, the transfer student experience, and Latinx students in STEM.
Download or read book The Latino Student s Guide to STEM Careers written by Laura I. Rendón and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an essential resource that Latino/a students and families need to make the best decisions about entering and succeeding in a STEM career. It offers current, fact-based information about the importance of Latinos/as entering STEM fields of study and provides a comprehensive array of information on diverse STEM majors that Latino/a students and families can use to make informed decisions about entering a STEM field of study.
Download or read book Latin Students in Engineering written by Lara Perez-Felkner and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-12 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growing population of engineering students who identify as Latin* are underrepresented in the field of engineering. Latin* refers to an individual of Latin American origin or descent, without restricting to a specific gender. The asterisk (*) includes related identity terms such as Latina/é/o/u/x.There is, however, a rising need to train U.S. students in engineering skills to meet the demands of our increasingly technological workforce. Structurally excluding Latin* students hinders their economic and educational opportunities in engineering. Latin* Students in Engineering examines the state of Latin* engineering education at present as well as considerations for policy and practice regarding engineering education aimed at enhancing opportunity and better serving Latin* students. The essays in this volume first consider, theoretically and empirically, the experiences of Latin* students in engineering education and then expand beyond the student level to focus on institutional and social structures that challenge Latin* students' success and retention. Finally, it illuminates emergent work and considers future research, policy, and practice.
Download or read book Girls and Women in STEM written by Janice Koch and published by IAP. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encouraging the participation of girls and women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) remains as vital today as it was in the 1970s. ... hence, the sub-title: “A Never Ending Story.” This volume is about ongoing advocacy on behalf of the future workforce in fields that lie on the cutting edge of society’s future. Acknowledging that deeply embedded beliefs about social and academic entitlement take generations to overcome, the editors of this volume forge forward in the knowledge that these chapters will resonate with readers and that those in positions of access will learn more about how to provide opportunities for girls and women that propel them into STEM fields. This volume will give the reader insight into what works and what does not work for providing the message to girls and women that indeed STEM fields are for them in this second decade of the 21st century. Contributions to this volume will connect to readers at all levels of STEM education and workforce participation. Courses that address teaching and learning in STEM fields as well as courses in women’s studies and the sociology of education will be enhanced by accessing this volume. Further, students and scholars in STEM fields will identify with the success stories related in some of these chapters and find inspiration in the ways their own journeys are reflected by this volume.
Download or read book Creating Literacy Communities as Pathways to Student Success written by Jessica Singer Early and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating Literacy Communities as Pathways to Student Success offers a model for using literacy as a pathway for secondary students to explore fields from which they are often systematically excluded. In particular, this volume demonstrates how access for young Latina students to STEM related fields can be bolstered through engagement with mentors in writing and reading programs. Written for pre- and in-service teachers, as well as scholars across disciplines, this book aims to re-conceptualize the ways in which writing can best serve ethnically and linguistically diverse students, especially girls.
Download or read book Exploring Latina and Hispanic Female Students Sense of Belonging in STEM Majors Following a Belonging Intervention written by Beatriz Del Carmen Bello and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Under represented Latin s in STEM written by Timothy T. Yuen and published by Critical Studies of Latinxs in the Americas. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Under)Represented Latin@s in STEM: Increasing Participation Throughout Education and the Workplace presents a critical investigation into Latin@ underrepresentation in STEM throughout the education pipeline and workforce. (Under)Represented Latin@s in STEM highlights nationally relevant research related to the creation of opportunities for Latin@ students in STEM and the ways in which these opportunities increase Latin@ participation in STEM. Of particular interest across the chapters is the notion of building and sustaining a strong STEM identity within Latin@ students. As such, the authors present ideas through various lenses including teacher preparation and transformative teaching strategies, family and community involvement, and innovative programs for minority students. A broad range of STEM fields (including mathematics, robotics, and computer science), grade levels, and learning environments (including informal and formal, rural and urban) are represented throughout the chapters. Thus, (Under)Represented Latin@s in STEM presents research-based practices that increase Latin@ participation in STEM as a single collection for educators, administrators, and policymakers. In addition to learning about the great efforts that scholars are doing in broadening diversity in STEM, readers will be able to take away ideas for designing and implementing similar educational programs and teaching strategies for their own students.
Download or read book Using an Asset based Approach to Identify Sources of Persistence for Latinas in Selecting STEM Undergraduate Degrees written by Nicole Cathryn Vitello and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latinas are underrepresented in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) professions compared to their White colleagues, which may be due to researchers' and practitioners' unawareness of this group's unique assets (i.e., "capital"). Yosso's (2005) "Community Cultural Wealth (CCW)" Model served as a foundation for asset-based thinking, as the study's purpose was to identify and enhance assets that encouraged STEM success for Latinas in high school. The research question sought to determine the extent to which the personal, school and/or community-based supports encouraged STEM persistence in high school and the eventual selection of STEM undergraduate majors by Latina high school students. Using grounded theory methodology with a critical ethnographic lens, seven participants were interviewed based on their self-identification as Latina, English proficiency, and enrollment in a STEM-related undergraduate major at a public university. The participants' familial, navigational, aspirational, and resistance capital emerged as the most significant of those in Yosso's (2005) "CCW" Model as evidenced by a pattern of responses generated via data analysis techniques. The following school-based supports may be beneficial for Latinas' success in high school STEM coursework: (1) Equity-Focused Professional Development for School Staff, (2) STEM Curriculum Shifts towards Equity-Focused Pedagogy, and (3) Creating Opportunities for Latina Mothers to Have a "Seat at the Table". The findings of this study can help to amplify Latinas' assets via equitable teaching practices in K-12 settings to promote academic success and gender/ethnic representation in STEM careers.
Download or read book Patterns of Persistence of Latinas in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics STEM Degree Programs written by Carmen de las Mercédez and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. demographics are changing, with Latinos leading the nation in population growth. Meanwhile, reports of a nation lacking a strong STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) workforce flood the media. With claims that the fastest growing careers will require some sort of mathematical, technological or scientific training, it is not surprising that national attention has been focused on increasing the number of STEM graduates through policies such as The America Competes Act (2007) and initiatives such as Race to the Top (2014). Trends in postsecondary enrollment are changing; Latina/o enrollment has increased, with many Latinas/os choosing a STEM major upon entry, but failing to persist to graduation in these degrees. An increased body of research has focused on minorities in STEM, Latinas/os in higher education, and STEM graduates, yet the literature specific to Latinas in STEM fields is lacking. Latina females outnumber males in postsecondary enrollment and graduation, yet few enroll and even fewer graduate in STEM fields. The limited number of Latinas seeking careers in STEM thus raises questions about why Latinas fail to enroll in STEM majors and what needs to be done to increase their enrollment and persistence in STEM careers. As such, this study will conduct a thorough analysis using a mixed methods approach to examine the factors and experiences that can positively impact enrollment and persistence for Latinas seeking STEM careers.
Download or read book Solving the Equation written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book focuses on the underrepresentation of women in engineering and computing and provides practical ideas for educators and employers seeking to foster gender diversity. From new ways of conceptualizing the fields for beginning students to good management practices, the report recommends large and small actions that can add up to real change.
Download or read book Cracking the code written by UNESCO and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report aims to 'crack the code' by deciphering the factors that hinder and facilitate girls' and women's participation, achievement and continuation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and, in particular, what the education sector can do to promote girls' and women's interest in and engagement with STEM education and ultimately STEM careers.
Download or read book It s Been a Long Journey written by Aimee Arreygue and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Today, one third of all college students are considered educationally "mobile," which means they will change institutions during their undergraduate careers. The concept of educational mobility challenges the traditional idea of students moving through an educational pipeline in a linear fashion, and recognizes that many of today's students, including those in STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), will have multiple transition points. The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the transitional experiences of educationally mobile students moving into and through the STEM disciplines at a public university. Students who move from one educational environment to another undergo a significant transition process, and understanding this process for individual students and the institution's role in supporting transition has implications for educational policy. Grounded in the conceptual framework guided by Schlossberg's Transition Theory, and Swail, Redd, and Perna's Geometric Model for Student Persistence and Achievement, this study explores the following research question: How do students who are educationally mobile experience academic, social, and institutional support while transitioning into and through STEM disciplines at a four-year public university? Eighteen science and mathematics majors participated in this study, all of whom attended at least one institution of higher education prior to their current attendance at Mountain View University, a four-year comprehensive Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) in Southern California. Participants were interviewed utilizing a semi-structured interview protocol and completed a demographic questionnaire as well. Trustworthiness measures included member checking and peer debriefing. The findings of this study show that educationally mobile students are savvy agents of their education, and make personal and professional sacrifices in their pursuit of a STEM degree. They want to connect to like-minded individuals on campus, and make efforts to seek help. Findings also show that institutional agents play an important role in helping educationally mobile students navigate institutional obstacles in the transition process. Recommendations include increased dialogue about articulation and the transfer processes among institutions, engaging in more consistent advising practices (both at the community college and the university), enabling purposeful social interactions during the transition process, and researching disaggregated populations of educationally mobile students.
