Making connections: replicating and extending the utility value intervention in the classroom.

CS Hulleman, JJ Kosovich, KE Barron… - Journal of Educational …, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
We replicated and extended prior research investigating a theoretically guided intervention
based on expectancy-value theory designed to enhance student learning outcomes (eg …

Analysis of social media forums to elicit narratives of graduate engineering student attrition

CGP Berdanier, C Whitehair, A Kirn… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background Graduate engineering student attrition is prevalent, but most literature that
studies graduate attrition is accomplished in disciplines outside of STEM or engineering …

Why teach with PBL? Motivational factors underlying middle and high school teachers' use of problem-based learning

HC Lee, MR Blanchard - Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem …, 2019 - docs.lib.purdue.edu
This quantitative study examined factors underlying middle and high school teachers'
choices about whether to use problem-based learning (PBL). Survey items measured …

Pursuing graduate study: Factors underlying undergraduate engineering students' decisions

M Borrego, DB Knight, K Gibbs Jr… - Journal of Engineering …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Background Enrollment of US students in engineering graduate programs is declining, the
proportion of underrepresented groups being even lower at the graduate level than it is at …

Persistence at what cost? How graduate engineering students consider the costs of persistence within attrition considerations

GM Sallai, M Bahnson… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background While previous work in higher education documents the impact of high tuition
costs of attending graduate school as a key motivator in attrition decisions, in engineering …

Surviving, thriving, departing, and the hidden competencies of engineering graduate school

E Zerbe, G Sallai, CGP Berdanier - Journal of Engineering …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background While researchers in graduate engineering education are beginning to study
facets of student experiences as they relate to attrition and persistence, theoretical …

Invaluable values: An expectancy-value theory analysis of youths' academic motivations and intentions

C Ball, KT Huang, SR Cotten, RV Rikard… - Information …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT While Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields have
increased in importance over the past decade, minorities have remained traditionally …

Factors impacting engineering advanced degree pursuit and attainment among black males

JA Henderson, EM Hines, A Boyce… - Journal of Women …, 2022 - dl.begellhouse.com
Black males are severely underrepresented in undergraduate and graduate engineering
programs. While postsecondary interventions have shown to be effective, they are few and …

Toward a theory of engineering professorial intentions: The role of research group experiences

BA Burt - American Educational Research Journal, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
This article advances the Theoretical Model of Engineering Professorial Intentions to explain
why individuals do or do not choose to pursue faculty careers. A 13-month ethnographic …

Non-linear path to a doctorate: a comparison of direct-and indirect-pathway doctoral students at Russian universities

S Zhuchkova, E Terentev - Higher Education, 2024 - Springer
Worldwide, research reports increasing proportions of nontraditional doctoral students
including those who return to a doctorate after a short or prolonged gap (indirect-pathway …