Middle School girls’ self-efficacy and motivation toward Mathematics before and after attending an all-girls summer Mathematics camp

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: WIEST, LYNDA R., CRAWFORD-FERRE, HEATHER G.
• Μορφή: Online
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Urray 2023
• Θέματα: Professional identity, beliefs, representations, knowledge; Nature of science, COVID-19, socio-cultural embeddedness, tentativeness, creativity; Science education, chemistry, conceptions, teaching practices, atomic models; IBSE, primary school, Intentio, institutional science education project; Summer programs, females, Mathematics, middle school, motivation, self-efficacy

The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of a five-day summer residential mathematics and technology program on the mathematics motivation and self-efficacy of 210 middle-grades girls who participated in this female-only event. Entrance measures and gain scores were examined for the study sample as a whole and for demographic groups formed by race/ethnicity, family socioeconomic status, and grade level. The results show that this program favorably influenced participants’ short-term self-efficacy and motivation for learning mathematics. Overall, significant increases appeared in self-efficacy, intrinsic motivation, and extrinsic motivation from program beginning to end. Self-efficacy showed the strongest improvements, followed by intrinsic motivation, and finally extrinsic motivation. Some differences appeared among demographic subgroups.