Encouraging talented girls in math and science: effects of a guidance intervention Export

@article{citeulike:773288, abstract = {Although gifted girls are closing the gap in math and science achievement, they continue to lose interest and drop out of math/science careers. An intervention was developed for talented at-risk young women that emphasized enhancing career identity and exploration, building science self-efficacy and self-esteem and reducing risky behaviors. Self-esteem, school self-efficacy, and future self-efficacy increased from pre-test to the 3- to 4-month follow-up. Girls significantly increased their seeking information about career and were likely to stay with nontraditional choices. The risk factor suicidality also decreased over this period.}, author = {Barbara and Kerr}, citeulike-article-id = {773288}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/chas/2004/00000015/00000001/art00006}, keywords = {career-guidance, science, women, young-people}, pages = {85--102}, posted-at = {2006-07-25 16:07:37}, priority = {3}, title = {Encouraging talented girls in math and science: effects of a guidance intervention}, url = {http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/chas/2004/00000015/00000001/art00006}, year = {2004} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:773288 L3 - citeulike-article-id:773288 N2 - Although gifted girls are closing the gap in math and science achievement, they continue to lose interest and drop out of math/science careers. An intervention was developed for talented at-risk young women that emphasized enhancing career identity and exploration, building science self-efficacy and self-esteem and reducing risky behaviors. Self-esteem, school self-efficacy, and future self-efficacy increased from pre-test to the 3- to 4-month follow-up. Girls significantly increased their seeking information about career and were likely to stay with nontraditional choices. The risk factor suicidality also decreased over this period. EP - 102 TI - Encouraging talented girls in math and science: effects of a guidance intervention SP - 85 KW - career-guidance KW - science KW - women KW - young-people AU - Barbara AU - Kerr PY - 2004/// UR - http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/chas/2004/00000015/00000001/art00006 ER -