An intervention to address gender issues in a course on design, engineering, and technology for science educators

Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 213-226

  Baker, Dale ^a,c   Krause, Stephen ^b,c   Yaşar, Şenay ^a,c   Roberts, Chell ^b   Robinson Kurpius, Sharon ^a,c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AZ 85281   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Societal relevance of engineering; Technical self efficacy; Tinkering self efficacy

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

BANDURA'S THEORY; GENDER ISSUES; INTERPRETIVE ANALYSIS; INTERVENTION;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 34547357976     PISSN: 10694730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2168-9830.2007.tb00931.x     Document Type: Article

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