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ARISE / Annotated Bibliography / Comparing Robert Noyce Scholars and Non-Robert Noyce Scholars Perceptions of Teaching

Comparing Robert Noyce Scholars and Non-Robert Noyce Scholars Perceptions of Teaching

Summary

Staffing high schools with highly qualified math and science teachers continues to be a challenge for school districts across the U.S. (NCTAF, 2010; Ingersoll & Merril, 2010). One way to address this challenge is to offer financial incentives, in the form of scholarships or grants, for high performing college students to become high school mathematics or science teachers. Oftentimes, attached to these financial incentives are service commitments to which recipients must agree to teach for a specified number of years in a high-need school or district. Investigating the impact these types of scholarship programs have on the high school math and science teacher staffing issue is an area that warrants more research. To help identify some characteristics of students involved in these types of financial incentive programs, our study investigates how the Robert Noyce Scholarship Program influenced students’ decisions to become high school mathematics or science teachers and their dispositions about teaching in schools. In this study, we administered a 70 item survey to 61 participants (29 experimental group, 32 control group) during the summer of 2015. Latent variables were created using Exploratory Factor Analysis and differences between the experimental and control groups were tested with the Mann-Whitney U and Chi-Square tests. Findings indicate statistically significant differences in three areas: (a) scholarship recipients’ decisions to become a high school mathematics or science teacher, (b) plans for graduate education, and (c) teacher preparation.

 

Authors

Jennifer H. Whitfield, Hersh Waxman, Timothy Scott

Organization/Affiliation

Texas A&M University

Year

2016

Discipline

Mathematics, Science

Resource Type

Report - Consensus study

URL

https://j-stem.net/index.php/jstem/article/view/24

Citation

Whitfield, J.G., Waxman, H., & Scott, T. (2016). Comparing Robert Noyce Scholars and Non-Robert Noyce Scholars Perceptions of Teaching. Journal of Research in STEM Education 2(2), 90-105.

Content Focus

Recruiting and Supporting Candidates, Retention, Support, and Tracking of Graduates

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant Numbers DUE- 2041597 and DUE-1548986. Any opinions, findings, interpretations, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of its authors and do not represent the views of the AAAS Board of Directors, the Council of AAAS, AAAS’ membership or the National Science Foundation.

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