Discussing underrepresentation as a means to facilitating female students’ physics identity development

Despite the fact that approximately half of high school physics students are female, only 21% of physics bachelor’s degrees are awarded to women. In a previous study, drawn from a national survey of college students in introductory English courses, five factors commonly proposed to positively impact...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Robynne M. Lock, Zahra Hazari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2016-07-01
Series:Physical Review Physics Education Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.12.020101