Investigating the relations of ethnicity to female students' perceptions and intention to major in engineering using social cognitive theory

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Trenor, Julie Martin ^a,b   Yu, Shirley L ^a,c   Sha, Ting Ling ^a,c   Zerda, Katherine S ^a,b   Waight, Consuelo L ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b Collen College of Engineering ^*

^c Department of Curriculum and Instruction

^d Department of Human Resource Development

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Female; First generation in college; Persistence; Social cognitive career theory

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY; ENGINEERING UNDERGRADUATES; ETHNIC GROUPS; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FEMALE STUDENTS; FIRST GENERATION IN COLLEGE; ON-LINE SURVEY; PERSISTENCE; RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES; SENSE OF BELONGING; SOCIAL COGNITIVE CAREER THEORY; SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORY; UNITED STATES;

EDUCATION; ENGINEERING; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; ONLINE SYSTEMS; STUDENTS; TECHNOLOGY;

PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

EID: 50049106198     PISSN: 15394565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FIE.2007.4418017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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