Career Intentions : The Effect of Physics Identity , Math Identity , and Gender
Career Intentions : The Effect of Physics Identity , Math Identity , and Gender
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职业意向：物理身份、数学身份和性别的影响
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2012
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G. Potvin
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Robynne M. Lock;Z. Hazari;G. Potvin
尽管近一半的高中物理学生是女性，但只有21%的物理学士学位是由女性获得的。使用来自全国大学生英语入门课程（科学相关经验，特别是在高中）调查的数据，我们检验了学生的物理和数学身份对他们选择从事物理职业的影响。在我们的身份框架的所有三个维度上，男性的数学和物理身份都比女性高。这些维度包括：表现/能力（对执行/理解能力的感知），认可（对他人认可的感知）和兴趣（学习更多的欲望）。一个预测学生追求物理职业意向的回归模型显示，正如预期的那样，男性比女性更有可能选择物理。然而，令人惊讶的是，当模型中包括物理和数学身份时，女性选择物理职业的可能性与男性相同。
Although nearly half of high school physics students are female, only 21% of physics bachelor’s degrees are earned by women. Using data from a national survey of college students in introductory English courses (on sciencerelated experiences, particularly in high school), we examine the influence of students’ physics and math identities on their choice to pursue a physics career. Males have higher math and physics identities than females in all three dimensions of our identity framework. These dimensions include: performance/competence (perceptions of ability to perform/understand), recognition (perception of recognition by others), and interest (desire to learn more). A regression model predicting students’ intentions to pursue physics careers shows, as expected, that males are significantly more likely to choose physics than females. Surprisingly, however, when physics and math identity are included in the model, females are shown to be equally likely to choose physics careers as compared to males.