Do Great Minds Think Alike? : Racial/Ethnic and Gender Differences in Mindset of Undergraduate Engineering Students
| Autor: | Julianna Ge, Brian P. Self, Edward J. Berger, John Chen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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05 social sciences Ethnic group 050301 education Mindset Racial ethnic Race (biology) Survey data collection 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Undergraduate engineering 0503 education Social psychology Inclusion (education) 050104 developmental & child psychology Diversity (politics) media_common |
| Zdroj: | FIE |
| Popis: | In this work-in-progress research category paper, we explore diversity and inclusion in undergraduate engineering programs by examining racial/ethnic and gender differences in undergraduate engineering students’ growth and fixed mindsets. We use multiple regression analyses on survey data to examine the main and interaction effects of race/ethnicity and gender on growth and fixed mindset to answer our overarching research questions: “How do fixed and growth mindset differ by race/ethnicity and gender for undergraduate engineering students?” and “To what extent do undergraduate engineering students’ race/ethnicity and gender interact for growth or fixed mindset?” Our results indicate that there are significant racial/ethnic group differences but no gender differences on growth and fixed mindset. Also, we found that gender did not moderate the relationship between race/ethnicity and mindset. Thus, while the men and women in our sample appear to share similar mindsets, most of the participants of different racial/ethnic backgrounds did not share similar mindsets. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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