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Sex differences in the perceived value of outreach and museums/science centres in students' decisions to enrol in university science, technology and engineering courses |
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Editor(s): Constantinos P Constantinou, Nicos Papadouris, Angela Hadjigeorgiou |
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European Science Education Research Association (ESERA) |
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This paper reports a number of findings from the Interests and Recruitment in Science (IRIS) study carried out in Australia in 2011. The findings concern the perceptions of first year university students in science, technology and engineering courses about the influence of museums/science centres and outreach activities on their choice of course. The study found that STE students in general tended to rate museums/science centres as more important in their decisions than outreach activities. However, a closer examination showed that females in engineering courses were significantly more inclined to rate outreach activities as important than were males in engineering courses or females in other courses. The implications of this finding for strategies to encourage more young women into engineering are discussed. |
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Proceedings of the ESERA 2013 Conference: Science Education Research For Evidence-based Teaching and Coherence in Learning (Strand 12: Cultural, social and gender issues in science and technology education), p. 1-7 |
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