Jianzhen Zhang, Ting Su, Xiaoyu Liang, Yanhua Xu, Ziyang Wang, Yuyao Yu, Jiahao Ge
The mediating effect of geospatial thinking on the relationship between family capital and academic achievement in geography
Frontiers in psychology
society digitised ever urgent need train people sectors women still underrepresented quantitative descriptive correlational explanatory descriptive design used identify barriers supports gender gaps science technology engineering mathematics secondary education analysing interest perception 1562 students 432 teachers descriptive statistics chisquare lambda test crames v phi test performed together qualitative analysis results show fewer female students want pursue stem studies girls preferring health education professions boys preferring engineering computer science indeed motivation different since found correlations girl choosing stem helping people society earning money important boys girls believe necessary boys qualities study stem less often perceive intelligent courageous study revealed families teachers encourage boys girls towards stem activities teachers believe girls influence preconceived ideas lack stem knowledge lower selfesteem regarding gender equality almost half state objectives included curricula 4385 include subjects 30 received training consequently female vocations need promoted teaching stem solves reallife problems fostering creativity increasing selfconfidence promoting stem activities making female role models visible teachers receive gender training promote gendersensitive stem education