Undergraduate Chemistry and Biochemistry Majors' Perceptions of Careers in Chemistry

Autor/inn/en	Ribble, Jennifer Marie; Kowalske, Megan Grunert
Titel	Undergraduate Chemistry and Biochemistry Majors' Perceptions of Careers in Chemistry
Quelle	In: Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 23 (2022) 1, S.113-123 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Ribble, Jennifer Marie) ORCID (Kowalske, Megan Grunert)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1756-1108
Schlagwörter	STEM Education; Academic Persistence; Majors (Students); Career Choice; Longitudinal Studies; Student Attitudes; Chemistry; Biochemistry; Career Awareness; College Seniors; Case Studies; Personal Narratives; Career Planning; Student Characteristics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? STEM; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Schülerverhalten; Chemie; Biochemie; Karrierebewusstsein; College; Colleges; Senior; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Erlebniserzählung; Karriereplanung
Abstract	In recent years there has been an increased emphasis on recruiting and retaining STEM students in order for the United States to retain its position as a leader in STEM fields (President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, (2012), Report to the president, engage to excel: Producing one million additional college graduates with degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics; Chen, X. (2013), STEM attrition: College students' paths into and out of STEM fields). Knowing that choice of major and choice of career are closely related (Negru-Subtirica O. and Pop E. I., (2018), Reciprocal associations between educational identity and vocational identity in adolescence: a three-wave longitudinal investigation, "J. Youth Adolesc.," 47, 703-716; Negru-Subtirica et al. (2018), Good omens? The intricate relations between educational and vocational identity in adolescence, "Eur. J. Dev. Psychol.," 15(1), 83-98), it is important that we understand what students know about careers available in the field of chemistry as well as what they know about what those careers are like. In this study, qualitative methodology was utilized using narrative inquiry and case study analysis methods in order to capture the lived experiences of six senior-status chemistry and biochemistry majors at a mid-sized, Midwestern university. Participants were interviewed, narratives were constructed from their interview transcripts, and the narratives were used as case studies that were compared to one another. It was found that students are not fully aware of the careers available to them with a degree in chemistry or biochemistry or what the career options they did identify were like on a day-to-day basis. It was also noted that resources are not distributed evenly to all students and that there were resources that were missing that students would have liked to have access to. Suggestions for improvement in chemistry career education are discussed along with limitations of the study and ideas for future work. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01