Who Wants to Have a Career in Science or Math? Exploring Adolescents' Future Aspirations by Gender and Race/Ethnicity
Who Wants to Have a Career in Science or Math? Exploring Adolescents' Future Aspirations by Gender and Race/Ethnicity
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DOI：
10.1002/sce.20431
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发表时间：
2011-05-01
影响因子：
4.3
通讯作者：
Ramos-Wada, Aida
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作者：
Riegle-Crumb, Catherine;Moore, Chelsea;Ramos-Wada, Aida
我们的研究利用来自全国八年级学生队列的数据来考虑不同性别和种族/民族亚组与白色男性相比，他们渴望从事科学或数学职业的可能性如何，并研究自我概念，享受和成就在职业轨迹的早期阶段可能在塑造差异方面发挥的作用。我们发现，享受的重要性，自我概念，并在解释科学职业抱负的差距相对于白色男性不同，根据考虑的女性亚组，这样，没有单一的故事适用于不同种族/民族背景的女性。对于数学，无论我们考虑的所有指标如何，白色和西班牙裔女性渴望从事数学职业的可能性仍然是白色男性的一半。最后，黑人和西班牙裔的青春期男孩对未来科学和数学事业的渴望与他们的白色男性同龄人大致相当，尽管在成就上有很大的差异。我们讨论了我们的研究结果对未来的研究公平的影响。(C)2010年威利期刊公司Sci艾德95：458-476，2011
Our study utilizes data from a national cohort of eighth-grade students to consider how different gender and racial/ethnic subgroups compare to White males in their likelihood to aspire toward a science or math occupation and examine the roles that self-concept, enjoyment, and achievement may play in shaping disparities at this early point in occupational trajectories. We find that the importance of enjoyment, self-concept, and achievement in explaining disparities in science career aspirations relative to White males varies according to the female subgroup considered, such that no singular story applies to females across different racial/ethnic backgrounds. For math, White and Hispanic females remain approximately half as likely as White males to aspire to a math occupation regardless of all indicators we consider. Finally, Black and Hispanic adolescent boys have generally comparable aspirations toward future careers in science and math as their White male peers, despite notably large differences in achievement. We discuss implications of our results for future research on equity. (C) 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Sci Ed 95:458-476, 2011