دورية أكاديمية
Do STEM Students Vote?
| العنوان: | Do STEM Students Vote? |
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| اللغة: | English |
| المؤلفون: | D'Wayne Bell, Jing Feng, John B. Holbein (ORCID |
| المصدر: | American Educational Research Journal. 2024 61(1):48-73. |
| الإتاحة: | SAGE Publications. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. Tel: 800-818-7243; Tel: 805-499-9774; Fax: 800-583-2665; e-mail: journals@sagepub.com; Web site: https://sagepub.comTest |
| تمت مراجعته من قبل الزملاء: | Y |
| Page Count: | 26 |
| تاريخ النشر: | 2024 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Journal Articles Reports - Research |
| Education Level: | Higher Education Postsecondary Education High Schools Secondary Education |
| الواصفات: | STEM Education, Majors (Students), Voting, Student Participation, Citizen Participation, High School Students, College Students, Course Selection (Students), Advanced Placement |
| DOI: | 10.3102/00028312231200232 |
| تدمد: | 0002-8312 1935-1011 |
| مستخلص: | Pundits, politicians, and academics have long worried about potentially low rates of civic participation among STEM-oriented students. Does studying STEM actually decrease the odds that young people will be actively involved in democracy? To answer this question, we created a dataset of over 23 million students in the United States, matched to national validated voting records. This novel dataset is the largest known individual-level dataset in the United States, connecting high school and college students to voting outcomes. It also contains a rich set of demographic and academic variables, to account for many of the common issues related to students' selection into STEM coursework. We consider two measures of STEM participation: Advanced Placement (AP) exam taking in high school and college major. Using both measures, we find that, across model specifications, the estimated relationships between STEM and voting are small in magnitude--about the same effect size as a single get-out-the-vote mailer. Our analyses demonstrate that, on average, marginally more STEM coursework in high school and college does not contribute noticeably to the low voting rates among young people in the United States. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2024 |
| رقم الانضمام: | EJ1406002 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | ERIC |
| تدمد: | 0002-8312 1935-1011 |
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| DOI: | 10.3102/00028312231200232 |