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22-01-2018 | Empirical Research

Examining Relationships among Choice, Affect, and Engagement in Summer STEM Programs

Auteurs: Patrick N. Beymer, Joshua M. Rosenberg, Jennifer A. Schmidt, Neil J. Naftzger

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence | Uitgave 6/2018

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Abstract

Out-of-school time programs focused on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) have proliferated recently because they are seen as having potential to appeal to youth and enhance STEM interest. Although such programs are not mandatory, youth are not always involved in making the choice about their participation and it is unclear whether youth’s involvement in the choice to attend impacts their program experiences. Using data collected from experience sampling, traditional surveys, and video recordings, we explore relationships among youth’s choice to attend out-of-school time programs (measured through a pre-survey) and their experience of affect (i.e., youth experience sampling ratings of happiness and excitement) and engagement (i.e., youth experience sampling ratings of concentration and effort) during program activities. Data were collected from a racially and ethnically diverse sample of 10–16 year old youth (n = 203; 50% female) enrolled in nine different summer STEM programs targeting underserved youth. Multilevel analysis indicated that choice and affect are independently and positively associated with momentary engagement. Though choice to enroll was a significant predictor of momentary engagement, positive affective experiences during the program may compensate for any decrements to engagement associated with lack of choice. Together, these findings have implications for researchers, parents, and educators and administrators of out-of-school time programming.
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There are complex theories of emotions such as control-value theory (Pekrun 2006) and the circumplex model (Barrett and Russell 1998; Linnenbrink-Garcia et al. 2016) that discuss both the valence and activation of emotions; however, this study focuses solely on valence.
 
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Sensitivity analysis was conducted using the R package, konfound (Rosenberg et al. 2018). To obtain appropriate degrees of freedom for the predictors, we used those estimated from the Kenward-Roger approach as implemented in the lmerTest package (Kuznetsova et al. 2017) in R.
 
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Metagegevens
Titel
Examining Relationships among Choice, Affect, and Engagement in Summer STEM Programs
Auteurs
Patrick N. Beymer
Joshua M. Rosenberg
Jennifer A. Schmidt
Neil J. Naftzger
Publicatiedatum
22-01-2018
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Journal of Youth and Adolescence / Uitgave 6/2018
Print ISSN: 0047-2891
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-6601
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-018-0814-9