Assessing high school student's STEM career interests using a social cognitive framework

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Mau, Wei-Cheng J.
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2019-06
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STEM , Career choices , Assessment , Social cognitive theory , CFA
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Mau, W.-C.; Chen, S.-J.; Lin, C.-C. (2019). Assessing high school student's STEM career interests using a social cognitive framework. Education Sciences, 9(2), 151. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci9020151
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This study investigated the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the STEM Career Interest Survey (STEM-CCIS) with data from 590 high-school students in Taiwan. Measurement models based on Social-Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) and STEM discipline-specific dimensions (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) were examined using confirmatory factor analyses. Findings from confirmatory factor analyses indicated that STEM-CCIS possesses adequate reliability and factorial validity, replicating the sound psychometric properties of the original English version of the STEM-CIS. Implications for the use of the STEM-CCIS are discussed.

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This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).
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MDPI
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Education sciences
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2227-7102
2227-7102 (online)
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