Social Cognitive Predictors of Academic Interests and Goals in Engineering: Utility for Women and Students at Historically Black Universities.

By Robert W. Lent, Steven D. Brown, Hung-Bin Sheu, Janet A. Schmidt, Bradley R. Brenner, Clay S. Gloster, G. Wilkins, L. Schmidt, Heather Z. Lyons, Dana Treistman. 2005

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Media Technology, Safety Research

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The Relations of Ethnicity to Female Engineering Students' Educational Experiences and College and Career Plans in an Ethnically Diverse Learning Environment (2008, background): “The authors called for future SCCT research to include samples with more variability in perceptions of barriers and supports, varying academic levels, as well as more participants who are female and from different ethnic backgrounds (Lent et al., 2005).”
Feeling the Threat (2014, positive): “Their group (Lent et al., 2005) has also shown that contextual barriers exert direct negative effects on undergraduate students’ major choice goals.”
Outcome Expectations: Looking to the Past and Potential Future (2006, methodology): “The SCCM has been supported empirically with a racially/ethnically diverse group of middle school students (Fouad & Smith, 1996), college students (Ferry, Fouad, & Smith, 2000; Lent et al., 2001), and African American engineering majors (Lent et al., 2005).”
Stereotype threat as a barrier to women entering engineering careers (2017, neutral): “…T Among STEM fields, research has supported the SCCT model among female engineering students (Flores et al., 2014; Inda, Rodriguez, & Pena, 2013; Lent et al, 2005; Lent, Miller, Smith, Watford, Lim, & Hui, 2016; Lent et al., 2014; Byars-Winston, Estrada, Howard, Davis, & Zalapa, 2010; Lee et…”
Academic Motivation and Achievement Among Urban Adolescents (2007, background): “After testing this theory among engineering students in contrasting Black and White university samples, Lent et al. (2005) found that Black students reported stronger self-efficacy, technical interests (e.g., reading books about engineering issues), and educational goals (e.g., becoming an…”
#BlackGirlMagic: The identity conceptualization of Black women in undergraduate STEM education (2018, background): “…belief in their capabilities within and their conceptual and practical knowledge of their particular STEM discipline (Charleston et al., 2014; Gainor & Lent, 1998; Hunter, Laursen, & Seymour, 2007; Hurtado, Cabrera, Lin, Arellano, & Espinosa, 2009; Lent et al., 2005; McGee & Martin, 2011).”
Career Self-Efficacy: Exemplary Recent Research and Emerging Directions (2007, background): “Interestconfidence correlations are typically in the range of .40 to .50: for example, .53 in the Lent et al. (1994) meta-analysis and .46 in the Lent et al. (2005) sample of engineering students at both historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and White universities.”
Mexican American middle school students' goal intentions in mathematics and science: A test of social cognitive career theory. (2007, methodology): “, 2000) and to examine potential gender differences in the relations among SCCT constructs (Lent et al., 2005).”
Majoring in STEM—What Accounts for Women's Career Decision Making? A Mixed Methods Study (2014, background): “…difficulty and expectations of success in mathematics, values, attitudes toward science-related domains, gender stereotypes, and background characteristics including socioeconomic status, gender, and ethnicity (Eccles, 2005; Holland, 1997; Lent et al., 2005; Watt, 2006; Watt & Eccles, 2008).”
Academic Self‐Efficacy and Performance of Underrepresented STEM Majors: Gender, Ethnic, and Social Class Patterns (2013, background): “(Betz, 1997): They encounter more obstacles to navigating academic milestones that are required for entry into graduate school and STEM occupations, and diminished academic self-efficacy may in turn lead them to avoid STEM courses and occupations (Lent et al., 2005).”
Why Are Some STEM Fields More Gender Balanced Than Others? (2017, neutral): “Other studies have shown female and male un-dergraduates in engineering reporting similar ability to succeed in their programs (Concannon & Barrow, 2009, 2012; Lent et al., 2005).”
Studying technology-based strategies for enhancing motivation in mathematics (2014, background): “Capable students plagued by a loss of confidence about their capacity to succeed in math and science typically avoid careers that require a strong background in those subjects (Lent et al. 2005).”