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completion; that they are well-suited for their major and their chosen career. This is the main factor indicating engineering self-confidence (λ=20.1). The second factor (CONF ENG ABIL) reflects confidence in the students’ competencies or skills required in engineering. Indicators contributing the most to the second factor include: the student’s agreement that they are mechanically inclined, technically inclined, and good at designing things (λ=18.1). The third factor (CONF ACAD ABIL) addressed the student’s assessment of more general academic abilities required for engineering. Indicators contributing the most to this factor included the student’s rating of their overall academic ability and their mathematical ability compared to other students their age (λ=15.5). The fourth factor (CONF COMM SKILL) expressed the student’s self-confidence in their communications abilities (e.g., writing, speaking), skills needed for presentations in many of their classes as well as for more informal interpersonal interaction, but again less specific to engineering than the first two factors (λ=14.0). For much of the analysis, we concentrate on the first or the first two factors, as they express the more important aspects of engineering self-confidence for the students. As standardized factor scores, the mean score for each factor is 0 for the whole population of respondents (all students). The scores ranged between –5 and +3. The higher the engineering self-confidence (on any of the factors), the higher the factor score. ENGINEERING SELF-CONFIDENCE AS STUDENTS ENTER ROWAN We begin by focusing on first year students. Students enter Rowan with some uncertainty that they belong in engineering. Their mean scores on the first engineering self-confidence factor are -.356 (Table IIB-1). As an example of the individual indicators IIB-78
making up this factor, while 22.4% of the first-year students “strongly agree” they are well-suited for their choice of college major, nearly 20% are unsure or disagree with this statement; while 30.8% “strongly agree” that “Engineering is the right major for me”, 37.5% are unsure or disagree with the statement. With respect to the most important of the factors of engineering self-confidence, males enter with more self-confidence that they belong in engineering and that they will stay with the major and the career (Table IIB-1). Their mean score on this factor is significantly higher than that of the female students, and their answers to the individual indicators reflect this same gender gap. Males express more confidence that engineering is the right major for them, that they are well-suited for the major and the career, and they are very unlikely to drop out before finishing the engineering degree. TABLE IIB-1 ENGINEERING SELF-CONFIDENCE OF FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS BY SEX AND YEAR IN PROGRAM Self-Confidence Factor (Mean Scores on Self-Confidence Factors) First-Year Males First-Year Females Total First- Year Students Students at All Levels CONF ENG STAY -.281 -.654 -.356 .000 CONF ENG ABIL .123 -.241 .049 .000 CONF ACAD ABIL -.087 .310 -.007 .000 CONF COMM SKILL -.110 .112 -.113 .000 (n) (79) (20) (99) (324) As to the second factor, first-year students enter with confidence in their engineering abilities that is close to the mean for all students. Again, however, males IIB-79
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A GENDER LENS ON ROWAN UNIVERSITY
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY BACKGROUND TO THE
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the program? In particular, how do
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various aspects of the program and
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However, the empowering effect of t
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with the delivery of lab work, team
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The perception of problems for wome
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• Have as high or higher academic
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These are important findings for an
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CHAPTER I-A INTRODUCTION The under-
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incorporate an inclusive pedagogica
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has specifically been advocated as
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affect intellectual identity and ac
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CLIMATE ISSUES DIFFICULT FOR WOMEN
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CHAPTER II-D CHANGES IN ENGINEERING
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However, there is a gender differen
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Considering the possibility that no
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achievement. Academic self-confiden
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While the four self-confidence fact
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We separated our analysis by year i
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Similarly, for junior females, a hi
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In summary, we can see that over th
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in their computer skills and in the
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TABLE IID-3 CHANGE IN SELF-CONFIDEN
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engineering as the right major for
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TABLE IID-5 MEAN GRADE POINT AVERAG
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the senior year, we find the larges
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The programmatic elements of most i
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elated to satisfaction at the end o
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The second indicator of satisfactio
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of classroom hours”, “are frien
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Satisfaction Item TABLE IIE-2 SATIS
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Considering high school background
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TABLE IIE-5 MULTIPLE CORRELATIONS R
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TABLE IIE-6 MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANA
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with team work is lowest in the jun
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High School Background High school
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teams are also more likely to join
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Satisfaction Item TABLE IIE-12 SATI
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TABLE IIE-14 SATISFACTION WITH INTE
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TABLE IIE-16 MULTIPLE REGRESSION AN
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course of the academic year. It cou
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gender difference are female studen
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a. Labwork (SATLAB) There is no gen
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TABLE IIE-22 SATISFACTION WITH ENGI
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indicated that there does not seem
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I. Programmatic Elements a-b. Satis
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II. Satisfaction with Applied Aspec
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administered during the different y
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higher among seniors. For both male
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TABLE IIE-26 MEAN SATISFACTION WITH
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engineering self-confidence was sim
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previous research, which suggests t
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WOMEN’S PARTICIPATION IN SWE AND
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ole models for engineering in the f
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difference in satisfaction with the
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program do not exhibit poorer pre-c
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Cohort beginning year: TABLE IIF-1
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Looking at gender differences in re
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from the university, or if they had
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TABLE IIF-5 ENGINEERING “STAYERS
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Leavers were less involved in engin
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TABLE IIF-9 ENGINEERING SELF-CONFID
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TABLE IIF-11 ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT O
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TABLE IIF-13 PARTICIPATION IN ENGIN
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TABLE IIF-14 ENGINEERING SELF-CONFI
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TABLE IIF-15 SATISFACTION WITH ROWA
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Previous research has suggested tha
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expected women’s perception of pr
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(4) We also expected the perception
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I’ll get hired somewhere.” Whil
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Remember that Rowan students were a
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As standardized factor scores, the
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We also could analyze the perceptio
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TABLE IIG-5 PERCEPTION OF PROBLEMS
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TABLE IIG-7 CHANGE IN PERCEPTION OF
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presumably with an understanding th
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correlations of each of the factors
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the junior female students to perce
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CHANGE IN PERCEPTION OF PROBLEMS OV
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TABLE IIG-13 CHANGE IN PERCEPTION O
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TABLE IIG-17 PERCEPTIONS OF PROBLEM
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CHAPTER II-H COMPARISONS TO OTHER S
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TABLE IIH-1 ENGINEERING SELF-CONFID
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Rowan females are also more involve
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TABLE IIH-3 PARTICIPATION IN SELECT
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females agreed or strongly agreed t
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males vs. 50.0% females); at Rowan,
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Purpose of the Study PART III SUMMA
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Evidence that Rowan’s Program is
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tend to be more satisfied with the
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It is important to note that having
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new program, many changes were inst
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Cunningham, Christine M., Cathy Lac
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Marchese, A. J., Schmalzel, J. L, M
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Tinto, V. 1993. Leaving College: Re
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ENGINEERING STUDENT SURVEY I Dear S
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Family Background 11.What was the h
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29a. Did you ever have a female tea
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Name__________________ Social Secur
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7. During this academic year, how f
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26. From your experience, engineeri
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APPENDIX B ENGINEERING SELF-CONFIDE
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