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Welcome To America, Welcome To College: Comparing The Effects Of Immigrant Generation And College Generation On Physical Science and Engineering Career Intentions
written by Florin D. Lung, Geoff Potvin, Gerhard Sonnert, and Philip M. Sadler
Students enter college with social, cultural, and economic resources (well described by Bourdieu's concepts of habitus and capital) that significantly impact their goals, actions, and successes. Two important determinants of the amount and type of resources available to students are their immigrant generation and college generation status. Drawing on a national sample of 6860 freshmen enrolled in college English, we compare and contrast the effects of immigrant generation with those of college generation status on physical science and engineering career intentions to explore some of the challenges faced by the first in the family to become an American and/or go to college.
Physics Education Research Conference 2012
Part of the PER Conference series
Philadelphia, PA: August 1-2, 2012
Volume 1513, Pages 270-273
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10.1063/1.4789704
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F. Lung, G. Potvin, G. Sonnert, and P. Sadler, , presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2012, Philadelphia, PA, 2012, WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12831&DocID=3364).
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F. Lung, G. Potvin, G. Sonnert, and P. Sadler, Welcome To America, Welcome To College: Comparing The Effects Of Immigrant Generation And College Generation On Physical Science and Engineering Career Intentions, presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2012, Philadelphia, PA, 2012, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12831&DocID=3364>.
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Lung, F., Potvin, G., Sonnert, G., & Sadler, P. (2012, August 1-2). Welcome To America, Welcome To College: Comparing The Effects Of Immigrant Generation And College Generation On Physical Science and Engineering Career Intentions. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2012, Philadelphia, PA. Retrieved April 19, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12831&DocID=3364
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Lung, F, G. Potvin, G. Sonnert, and P. Sadler. "Welcome To America, Welcome To College: Comparing The Effects Of Immigrant Generation And College Generation On Physical Science and Engineering Career Intentions." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2012, Philadelphia, PA, August 1-2, 2012. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12831&DocID=3364 (accessed 19 April 2024).
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Lung, Florin, Geoff Potvin, Gerhard Sonnert, and Philip Sadler. "Welcome To America, Welcome To College: Comparing The Effects Of Immigrant Generation And College Generation On Physical Science and Engineering Career Intentions." Physics Education Research Conference 2012. Philadelphia, PA: 2012. 270-273 Vol. 1513 of PER Conference. 19 Apr. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12831&DocID=3364>.
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@inproceedings{ Author = "Florin Lung and Geoff Potvin and Gerhard Sonnert and Philip Sadler", Title = {Welcome To America, Welcome To College: Comparing The Effects Of Immigrant Generation And College Generation On Physical Science and Engineering Career Intentions}, BookTitle = {Physics Education Research Conference 2012}, Pages = {270-273}, Address = {Philadelphia, PA}, Series = {PER Conference}, Volume = {1513}, Month = {August 1-2}, Year = {2012} }
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