STEM Pathways of Rural and Small-Town Students: Opportunities to Learn, Aspirations, Preparation, and College Enrollment
STEM Pathways of Rural and Small-Town Students: Opportunities to Learn, Aspirations, Preparation, and College Enrollment
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DOI：
10.3102/0013189x211027528
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发表时间：
2021-06-30
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
Agger, Charlotte A.
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作者：
Saw, Guan K.;Agger, Charlotte A.
利用2009年全国代表性的高中纵向研究（HSLS：09），这项研究表明，农村和小城镇的学生明显不太可能参加中学后STEM（科学，技术，工程和数学）学位课程，与他们的郊区同龄人相比。这项研究还表明，农村和小城镇学生就读的学校提供的STEM高级课程和课外课程有限，STEM教学能力较低。这些学习STEM的机会与STEM学术准备中不断扩大的地理差距有关。总的来说，我们的研究结果表明，在高中期间，农村和小城镇的学生从STEM领域转移，中学后STEM参与的地理差异在很大程度上是由学生的人口统计数据和大学前STEM职业抱负和学术准备来解释的。
Using the nationally representative High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09), this study documents that rural and small-town students were significantly less likely to enroll in postsecondary STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) degree programs, compared with their suburban peers. This study also shows that schools attended by rural and small-town students offered limited access to advanced coursework and extracurricular programs in STEM and had lower STEM teaching capacity. Those opportunities to learn in STEM were linked to the widening geographic gaps in STEM academic preparation. Overall, our findings suggest that during high school rural and small-town students shifted away from STEM fields and that geographic disparities in postsecondary STEM participation were largely explained by students' demographics and precollege STEM career aspirations and academic preparation.