Engineering in Dutch schools: does it effect study choice?
| Autor: | Blume-Bos, A., van der Veen, Jan T., Boerman, P.L.J., van der Veen, Jan, van Hattum-Janssen, Natascha, Järvinen, Hannu-Matti, de Laet, Tinne, ten Dam, Ineke |
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| Přispěvatelé: | ELAN Teacher Development, 4TU Centre for Engineering Education |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Zdroj: | Engaging, Engineering, Education: Book of Abstracts, SEFI 48th Annual Conference University of Twente (online), 20-24 September, 2020, 84-92 STARTPAGE=84;ENDPAGE=92;TITLE=Engaging, Engineering, Education |
| Popis: | Increasing visibility of STEM fields in schools is one way to increase the percentage of students opting for a STEM study. In the Netherlands there are two ways this has been implemented. Firstly, students can choose the course ‘Onderzoek en Ontwerpen’ (O&O; Dutch for Research and Design) which is offered in lower as well as upper level classes. Alternatively, they can choose the course Nature, Life & Technology which is only offered in upper level. O&O contains mostly engineering related subjects and NLT is a combination of science and engineering topics. Our study shows a quantitative analysis of the study choice after school over a tenyear period of students with O&O (n=4.936) or NLT (n=27.397) comparing with the full cohort (n=331.602). We find that O&O effects study choice substantially, while the effect is less strong for NLT. Zooming in on female students, their participation in O&O (34%) and NLT (44%) at school are high compared to what we find in typical scientific engineering programs. In the 2010-2013 period we see many female O&O students opting to study Medicine, whereas the 2014-2019 period shows a substantial increase in female O&O students entering science and engineering programs. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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