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LITERATURE REVIEW
Learners’ career choices in STEM education: A review of empirical studies
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Department of Social Psychology, Moscow State Regional University, Moscow, RUSSIA
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Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Almetyevsk State Oil Institute, Almetyevsk, RUSSIA
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Department of Pedagogy of Higher Education, Kazan (Volga region) Federal University, Kazan, RUSSIA
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Institute of High-Tech Law, Social Sciences and Humanities, National Research University of Electronic Technology (MIET), Moscow, RUSSIA
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Department of Foreign Languages, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Moscow, RUSSIA
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Department of Civil Law Disciplines, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Moscow, RUSSIA
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Department of Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology named after G. S. Arefieva, National Research University “Moscow Power Engineering Institute” (MPEI), Moscow, RUSSIA
Online publication date: 2023-04-03
Publication date: 2023-05-01
EURASIA J. Math., Sci Tech. Ed 2023;19(5):em2261
KEYWORDS
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to systematically review articles on the career choices of learners
and STEM. The first goal was to classify research on career choice and STEM to identify trends and
gaps in the literature. The second goal was to summarize the findings related to learners’ career
choices at STEM and interpret them according to what has been reported in the literature. In this
study, the PRISMA method was used to review articles in the educational literature STEM. Sixty-seven articles published in indexed journals in SCOPUS that met the specified criteria were
analyzed systematically. The results showed that 51 of 67 articles were involved in the analysis to
review by researchers. The results also showed that the earliest article that addressed career choice
and STEM was published in 2011, and most of the articles studied were published after 2017. The
results also showed that most articles on career choice in STEM were conducted in the United
States, Israel, and Spain. The preferred sample groups in research on career choice in STEM fields
are mostly high school and undergraduate students. In addition, the studies were broadly
classified into five categories, including the effects of STEM activities and the effects on teachers,
the effects of some variables on learners’ career choices, the study of learners’ career choices, and
parental attitudes. Based on the results obtained from this research, implications are made for
future research.
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