Immigrant Students and STEM Pathways: Understanding Locations of Advantage and Disadvantage

• In Event: What Matters for STEM Participation in College? A Longitudinal View of STEM Identities and STEM Pathways

Abstract

The purpose of the paper is to understand how immigrant youth of color develop and lose STEM identities and pathways along the K-labor force pipeline. Using a mixed methods approach, we propose to do the following in the nation’s largest school district with one of the most racially and ethnically diverse immigrant student population in the public schools, New York City: 1) Through student interviews, examine how immigrant youth of color form STEM identities in stages of education as early as elementary school; 2) Using an administrative data source, identify key points in STEM pathways, such as in middle and high schools, where youth, as a result of their STEM identities, fall off and can be recovered.

Authors

• Stella M. Flores, New York University

• Hua-Yu Sebastian Cherng, New York University

• Sumie Okazaki, New York University

• Tim Carroll, New York University

• Amy Hsin, Queens College

• Christina Lee, New York University

• Okhee Lee, New York University