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Comparing major declaration, attrition, migration, and completion in physics with other STEM disciplines
Kyle M. Whitcomb, Danny Doucette, Chandralekha Singh
This research uses 10 years of institutional data at a large public university in the USA to investigate trends in the undergraduate majors students declare, drop, and earn degrees…
Progression in self-efficacy, interest, identity, sense of belonging, perceived recognition and effectiveness of peer interaction of physics majors and comparison with non-majors and Ph.D. students
Kyle Whitcomb, Alexandru Maries, Chandralekha Singh
The importance of science beliefs such as self-efficacy, interest, identity, sense of belonging, perceived recognition and effectiveness of peer interaction in science education ha…
Gender Inequities Throughout STEM: Compared to Men, Women with Significantly Higher Grades Drop STEM Majors
Alexandru Maries, Kyle Whitcomb, Chandralekha Singh
Efforts to promote equity and inclusion using evidence-based approaches are vital to correcting long-standing societal inequities that have disadvantaged women and discouraged them…
How the learning environment predicts male and female students' motivational beliefs in algebra-based introductory physics courses
Sonja Cwik, Kyle Whitcomb, Chandralekha Singh
Societal stereotypes and biases pertaining to who belongs in physics and who can excel in physics can impact motivational beliefs, e.g., of women and racial and ethnic minority stu…
How learning environment predicts male and female students' physics motivational beliefs in introductory physics courses
Yangqiuting Li, Kyle Whitcomb, Chandralekha Singh
In this study, we adapt prior identity framework to investigate the effect of learning environment (including perceived recognition, peer interaction and sense of belonging) on stu…
How perception of being recognized or not recognized by instructors as a "physics person" impacts male and female students' self-efficacy and performance
Yangqiuting Li, Kyle Whitcomb, Chandralekha Singh
We discuss a study in a first year college introductory physics course for physical science and engineering majors that shows that women, on average, feel less recognized by their…