HIGH ASPIRATIONS BUT LOW PROGRESSION: THE SCIENCE ASPIRATIONS–CAREERS PARADOX AMONGST MINORITY ETHNIC STUDENTS

By Jennifer Dewitt, L. Archer, Jonathan Osborne, Justin Dillon, B. Willis, Billy Tak-Ming Wong. 2011

158 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, Safety Research

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. Jennifer Dewitt
2. L. Archer
3. Jonathan Osborne
4. Katherine L. McNeill
5. V. Dawson
6. Vasilia Christidou

In Education

1. Jennifer Dewitt
2. L. Archer
3. Jonathan Osborne
4. Katherine L. McNeill
5. L. Perera
6. V. Dawson
7. Vasilia Christidou

In Safety Research

1. Jennifer Dewitt
2. L. Archer
3. Jonathan Osborne
4. L. Perera

Citations in the corpus

• Science-related Aspirations Across the Primary–Secondary Divide: Evidence from two surveys in England (2014, methodology): “Details on the development and validation of the survey instrument have been described elsewhere (DeWitt et al., 2011), as have the findings from the first survey (DeWitt et al.”
• Who Aspires to a Science Career? A comparison of survey responses from primary and secondary school students (2015, result): “In our own earlier research on this project, we also found similar close relationships between aspirations in science and family attitudes to science (DeWitt et al., 2011, 2013; Archer et al., 2012) and attitudes to school science (DeWitt et al., 2011, 2013).”