Women engineering students' self-efficacy beliefs - The longitudinal picture

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 15967-15980

  Marra, Rose M ^a   Schuurman, Mieke ^b,c   Moore, Cherith ^d   Bogue, Barbara ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AWE   (United Kingdom)

^d Penn State ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CURRICULA; MOTIVATION; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STUDENTS;

CONFIDENCE; GENDER DIFFERENCES; SELF-EFFICACY BELIEFS; UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 22544449569     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21535965     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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