1. MICHAEL ASHER ♂
Information acquired: 2025
MICHAEL ASHER is an academic who published a paper in 2023 entitled An Intersectional Application of Expectancy-Value Theory in an Undergraduate Chemistry Course. MICHAEL ASHER published this work as part of a team: French, Allison M.. Here is a description of this work: The underrepresentation of women and Black, Latinx, and Native Americans within the United States scientific workforce is a persistent and multifaceted problem warranting an intersectional approach. Applying intersectionality to the expectancy-value theory of motivation, we examined initial motivation and subsequent achievement among a sample of undergraduate students (n = 687) enrolled in the STEM gateway course of introductory chemistry at a diverse four-year university. We found no racial/ethnic group differences in initial motivation, but small (d = .30) group differences in achievement. Results revealed a pattern of gender differences across both underrepresented (i.e., Black, Latinx, and Native American) and well-represented (i.e., White, Asian American) racial/ethnic groups such that, relative to men, women began the class with lower levels of confid.
