Author First name, Last name, Institution

Areej ElSayary, Zayed UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Source of Publication

Eurasia Journal of Mathematics Science and Technology Education

Publication Date

1-1-2023

Abstract

Students’ science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) career aspirations are influenced by the cultural, cognitive, and contextual factors that affect their self-efficacy, outcomes, expectation, motivation, interests, and choices (Lent et al., 1994). This study investigates the influence of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) schools on high school students’ STEM career aspirations. UAE schools are considered the cultural factor, where many new initiatives and policies take place, such as the science, technology, and innovation policy and new high school equivalency policy. In this study, the students’ STEM career aspirations involved the cognitive factor and the contextual factor. The participants were high school students (n1=330) and teachers (n2=10) from different schools across UAE. A concurrent mixed-methods approach used quantitative data (online survey) and qualitative analysis (semi-structured interviews). The results reveal new initiatives in schools have a strong positive impact on students’ STEM career aspirations. However, some gaps occurred where recommendations were made.

ISSN

1305-8223

Publisher

Modestum Ltd

Volume

19

Issue

2

First Page

em2225

Last Page

em2225

Disciplines

Education

Keywords

cultural influence, cognitive influence, contextual influence, career aspirations, STEM

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Indexed in Scopus

no

Open Access

yes

Open Access Type

Gold: This publication is openly available in an open access journal/series

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Education Commons

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