Associations of children’s math and gender beliefs with their math outcomes

• Main Author: Foo, Xiao Hui
• Other Authors: Setoh Pei Pei
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2021
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/150497
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Past research has attributed the female underrepresentation in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields to the field-specific ability beliefs (FAB) prevalent in those fields. The FAB hypothesis states that the belief that raw brilliance is essential to succeed in STEM field...