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How inclusiveness of learning environment predicts female and male students’ physics grades and motivational beliefs in introductory physics courses
written by Yangqiuting Li and Chandralekha Singh
In this study, we adapted a prior identity framework to investigate how students' perception of the inclusiveness of the learning environment (including sense of belonging, peer interaction and perceived recognition) in an introductory physics course predicts their course grades and physics motivational beliefs (including self-efficacy, interest and identity) at the end of this course. We found signatures of inequitable and non-inclusive learning environment in that female students' mean scores for sense of belonging, peer interaction and perceived recognition were all lower than male students' in the course. In addition, we found that female students had lower average course grades than male students. Using structural equation modeling, we found that students' perception of the inclusiveness of the learning environment predicts their self-efficacy, interest, identity and grades at the end of the course even after controlling for students' gender, motivational beliefs and grades in a previous course as well as their high school GPA and SAT math scores. In particular, students' perceived recognition, e.g., by instructors and teaching assistants, played a major role in predicting students' physics identity, and students' sense of belonging in physics played an important role in explaining the change in students' physics self-efficacy. Our findings can be helpful for creating an inclusive and equitable learning environment in which all students can excel.
Physics Education Research Conference 2022
Part of the PER Conference series
Grand Rapids, MI: July 13-14, 2022
Pages 285-291
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Y. Li and C. Singh, How inclusiveness of learning environment predicts female and male students’ physics grades and motivational beliefs in introductory physics courses, presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2022, Grand Rapids, MI, 2022, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=16248&DocID=5617>.
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Li, Y., & Singh, C. (2022, July 13-14). How inclusiveness of learning environment predicts female and male students’ physics grades and motivational beliefs in introductory physics courses. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2022, Grand Rapids, MI. Retrieved November 5, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=16248&DocID=5617
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Li, Yangqiuting, and Chandralekha Singh. "How inclusiveness of learning environment predicts female and male students’ physics grades and motivational beliefs in introductory physics courses." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2022, Grand Rapids, MI, July 13-14, 2022. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=16248&DocID=5617 (accessed 5 November 2024).
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Li, Yangqiuting, and Chandralekha Singh. "How inclusiveness of learning environment predicts female and male students’ physics grades and motivational beliefs in introductory physics courses." Physics Education Research Conference 2022. Grand Rapids, MI: 2022. 285-291 of PER Conference. 5 Nov. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=16248&DocID=5617>.
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