Self efficacy of women engineering students? Three years of data at U.S. institutions

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Marra, Rose ^a,b   Bogue, Barbara ^c,d,e   Rodgers, Kelly ^a   Shen, Demei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b Assessing Women in Student Environments

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Pennsylvania State University ^*

^e AWE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STUDENTS;

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES; SELF-EFFICACY;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 85073139112     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21535965     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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