What Young Adolescents Think about Engineering: Immediate and Longer Lasting Impressions of a Video Intervention

Sybillyn Jennings; Julie Guay McIntyre; Sarah E. Butler

Journal of Career Development Vol. 42, No. 1 (February 2015) pp. 3–18

To explore young adolescents' interest in engineering as a future career, we examined the influence of gender and grade level on participants' (N = 197, aged 10-13) views of engineering. One group (107 students) viewed a brief engineering...