A Multidimensional Scaling Analysis of Students’ Attitudes about Science Careers
A Multidimensional Scaling Analysis of Students’ Attitudes about Science Careers
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学生对科学职业态度的多维尺度分析
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发表时间：
2010
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通讯作者：
C. J. Osman
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作者：
Amy M. Masnick;S. Valenti;B. Cox;C. J. Osman
为了鼓励学生在科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）领域寻求职业，衡量学生对科学职业的内隐和外显态度非常重要。我们要求高中生和大学生对职业对的相似性进行评分，然后使用多维尺度（MDS）来创建职业相似性的空间表示。其他学生通过从几个方面对每个职业进行评分来证实这个新兴的MDS地图。我们发现，不同年龄和性别的参与者认为，与其他流行的职业选择相比，科学职业缺乏创造力，也不那么以人为本。我们得出的结论是，学生们可能会因为普遍的误解而远离STEM职业，即科学是一项困难的、缺乏创造力的、与社会隔绝的追求。
To encourage students to seek careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields, it is important to gauge students’ implicit and explicit attitudes towards scientific professions. We asked high school and college students to rate the similarity of pairs of occupations, and then used multidimensional scaling (MDS) to create a spatial representation of occupational similarity. Other students confirmed the emergent MDS map by rating each of the occupations along several dimensions. We found that participants across age and sex considered scientific professions to be less creative and less people‐oriented than other popular career choices. We conclude that students may be led away from STEM careers by common misperceptions that science is a difficult, uncreative, and socially isolating pursuit.
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4
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Fredricks, JA;Eccles, JS
通讯作者：
Eccles, JS
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4.6
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Jacobs, JE;Lanza, S;Wigfield, A
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Wigfield, A