Speaker
Laura Akesson
(George Mason University)
Description
Students with a strong science identity have a higher likelihood of choosing a science career and are more likely to demonstrate persistence in STEM courses and careers. Preliminary findings of an ongoing qualitative survey analysis of 120 undergraduate women in Physics will be presented. The following research questions are being investigated:
- What are undergraduate women’s conceptions of what it means to be a
physics person? - How do undergraduate women explain their self-assessment of their own physics identity?
Primary author
Laura Akesson
(George Mason University)
Co-authors
Benjamin Dreyfus
(George Mason University)
Jessica Rosenberg
(George Mason University)
Nancy Holincheck
(George Mason University)
