The power of interest: minoritized women’s interest in engineering fosters persistence beliefs beyond belongingness and engineering identity

Abstract Backgrounds This study examined how developing an engineering identity through the interplay between interest, recognition, and performance/competence beliefs and establishing a sense of belonging supported women’s persistence beliefs in engineering. Persistence belief in this study is capt...

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Main Author: Dina Verdín
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2021-05-01
Series:International Journal of STEM Education
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40594-021-00292-1