Sex differences in the perceived value of outreach and museums/science centres in students' decisions to enrol in university science, technology and engineering courses

Terry Lyons; Frances Quinn

Sex differences in the perceived value of outreach and museums/science centres in students' decisions to enrol in university science, technology and engineering courses

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This paper reports a number of findings from the Interests and Recruitment in Science (IRIS) study carried out in Australia in 2011. The findings concern the perceptions of first year university students in science, technology and engineering courses about the influence of museums/science centres and outreach activities on their choice of course. The study found that STE students in general tended to rate museums/science centres as more important in their decisions than outreach activities. However, a closer examination showed that females in engineering courses were significantly more inclined to rate outreach activities as important than were males in engineering courses or females in other courses. The implications of this finding for strategies to encourage more young women into engineering are discussed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the ESERA 2013 Conference: Science Education Research For Evidence-based Teaching and Coherence in Learning
Editors	Constantinos P Constantinou, Nicos Papadouris, Angela Hadjigeorgiou
Place of Publication	Utrecht, Netherlands
Publisher	European Science Education Research Association (ESERA)
Pages	1-7
ISBN (Print)	9789963700776
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	ESERA 2013: 10th Conference of the European Science Education Research Association - Nicosia, Cyprus Duration: 2 Sept 2013 → 7 Sept 2013

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Conference	ESERA 2013: 10th Conference of the European Science Education Research Association
City	Nicosia, Cyprus
Period	2/09/13 → 7/09/13

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Science, Technology and Engineering Curriculum and Pedagogy
Specialist Studies in Education
Curriculum and Pedagogy

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Lyons, T., & Quinn, F. (2014). Sex differences in the perceived value of outreach and museums/science centres in students' decisions to enrol in university science, technology and engineering courses. In C. P Constantinou, N. Papadouris, & A. Hadjigeorgiou (Eds.), Proceedings of the ESERA 2013 Conference: Science Education Research For Evidence-based Teaching and Coherence in Learning (pp. 1-7). European Science Education Research Association (ESERA). https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/15200

Lyons, Terry ; Quinn, Frances. / Sex differences in the perceived value of outreach and museums/science centres in students' decisions to enrol in university science, technology and engineering courses. Proceedings of the ESERA 2013 Conference: Science Education Research For Evidence-based Teaching and Coherence in Learning. editor / Constantinos P Constantinou ; Nicos Papadouris ; Angela Hadjigeorgiou. Utrecht, Netherlands : European Science Education Research Association (ESERA), 2014. pp. 1-7

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Lyons, T & Quinn, F 2014, Sex differences in the perceived value of outreach and museums/science centres in students' decisions to enrol in university science, technology and engineering courses. in C P Constantinou, N Papadouris & A Hadjigeorgiou (eds), Proceedings of the ESERA 2013 Conference: Science Education Research For Evidence-based Teaching and Coherence in Learning. European Science Education Research Association (ESERA), Utrecht, Netherlands, pp. 1-7, ESERA 2013: 10th Conference of the European Science Education Research Association, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2/09/13. <https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/15200>

Sex differences in the perceived value of outreach and museums/science centres in students' decisions to enrol in university science, technology and engineering courses. / Lyons, Terry; Quinn, Frances.
Proceedings of the ESERA 2013 Conference: Science Education Research For Evidence-based Teaching and Coherence in Learning. ed. / Constantinos P Constantinou; Nicos Papadouris; Angela Hadjigeorgiou. Utrecht, Netherlands: European Science Education Research Association (ESERA), 2014. p. 1-7.

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