A Feeling of Belonging and Effectiveness Key to Women's Success

Autor/in	Lim, Victoria
Titel	A Feeling of Belonging and Effectiveness Key to Women's Success
Quelle	In: Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 26 (2009) 2, S.17 (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1557-5411
Schlagwörter	Engineering Education; Self Efficacy; Academic Achievement; Womens Education; Womens Studies + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ingenieurausbildung; Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Schulleistung; 'Women''s education'; Frauenbildung
Abstract	Katie Tepper is a 20-year-old University of Missouri-Columbia junior who is studying industrial engineering and looks forward to a job in the manufacturing field, but the statistics aren't in her favor when it comes to her major. Only 17.2 percent of engineering majors are women, according to the Engineering Workforce Commission (EWC). And yet, Tepper says that number empowers her. "Maybe some of my classmates who are guys may have first thought, "What is she doing here? Is she smart?" Once I showed them I was, I got better grades on the first few tests, [and] they started respecting me more. And now, they're coming to me for help on homework," she says. That feeling of "self-efficacy," is the subject of a study spearheaded by Dr. Rose Marra, an associate professor of learning technologies at MU. "Women Engineering Students and Self-Efficacy: A Multi-Year, Multi-Institution Study of Women Engineering Student Self-Efficacy" was funded by a National Science Foundation grant. Marra warns against interchanging "self-esteem" with self-efficacy, as the latter refers to "individuals' beliefs in their capabilities to plan and take the actions required to achieve a particular outcome." The two-year study surveyed 196 female engineering students in five institutions and collected quantitative data in the fall semesters of 2003 and 2004, and the results were recently released in the Journal of Engineering Education. Overall, women's feelings of being effective in the study of engineering increased, according to the study. A lack of role models, especially at the faculty level, is particularly challenging, note the study's authors. (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10