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Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering
Julie P. Martin (open in a new tab) Engineering Education Transformations Institute, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Maura Borrego (open in a new tab) STEM Education, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA; Center for Engineering Education, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78705, USA
Karin J. Jensen (open in a new tab) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, 1101 Beal Avenue, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
Walter C. Lee (open in a new tab) Department of Engineering Education, Virginia Tech, 353 Goodwin Hall, 635 Prices Fork Rd, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
Joel Alejandro Mejia (open in a new tab) Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering, Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies, The University of Texas at San Antonio, Applied Engineering & Technology (AET) Building Room 1.310, One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, Texas 78249, USA
Homero Murzi (open in a new tab) Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24060, USA
Christen Priddie (open in a new tab) Center for Postsecondary Research, School of Education, Indiana University Bloomington, 201 N. Rose Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
Hyun Kyoung Ro (open in a new tab) College of Education, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76201, USA
Leonard D. Taylor, Jr. (open in a new tab) Auburn University, Educational Foundations, Leadership, and Technology Department 3084 Haley Center Auburn, AL 36849
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DEGREE ASPIRATIONS OF UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING STUDENTS AT THE INTERSECTION OF RACE/ETHNICITY AND GENDER

pages 165-193
DOI: 10.1615/JWomenMinorScienEng.2018017998
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ABSTRACT

Although educational aspirations are a key part of models of educational and status attainment, they are currently not well understood. This study examines both aspirations for a master's degree as the highest degree and aspirations for a doctoral degree as the highest degree for undergraduate engineering students. A theoretical framework in which educational aspirations are a function of social constraints and individual agency was used. Multilevel logistic regression models were estimated to investigate the empirical relationship between covariates and student degree aspirations. Results suggest key differences in degree aspirations at the intersection of race and gender, with minority groups exhibiting higher aspirations. However, these differences may be specific to males and master's degree aspirations. In this study, White females are consistently lower than other groups on master's degree aspirations, a result which extends the literature by providing an example of how a gender effect can be moderated by race/ethnicity. In addition, results indicate that the processes for formation of highest degree aspirations for the Master's degree compared with PhD degree are likely different. The institutional variation in aspirations outcomes was relatively small when compared to the variation due to individual differences, implying that individual agency may play a much larger role than institutional constraints in aspirations formation.

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