International Journal of Multidisciplinary and Educational Research (IJMER)
An Investigation of Students’ Motivation, Self-Esteem and Their Academic Achievement/Retention for Financially Disadvantaged Computer Science Undergraduate Students
E-ISSN: 6575-5565
P-ISSN: 3427-2556
DOI: https://iigdpublishers.com/article/520
STARS (Supporting Talented African American Undergraduates for Retention and Success) is an NSF funded program to improve retention and graduation among students seeking computer science degrees at a minority serving institution. This project focuses on students from underrepresented minority group, low-income family. STARS program has four primary categories of support, which include academic, social, career, and financial. The current study considers the STARS program students and non-STARS counterparts, for STARS students, the majority of students showed higher level of STEM self-esteem and academic motivation compared with their non-STARS counterparts. Furthermore, scholars self-report in survey and focus group interview indicated that their higher level of self-esteem and stronger academic motivation attribute to the different levels of support from this program.
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