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ERIC Number: EJ1470764
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Mar
Pages: 18
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1475-7257
EISSN: EISSN-1475-7257
Available Date: 0000-00-00
Male Students in Female-Dominated Study Programs: Perceived Diversity Climate in Gender-Mixed Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning
Jennifer Raimann1; Natalia Reich-Stiebert1; Jan-Bennet Voltmer1; Stefan Stürmer1
Psychology Learning and Teaching, v24 n1 p20-37 2025
Background: Male students' achievements in female-dominated study programs have garnered limited research attention. This study investigates the relationship between psychology students' perceived diversity climate and their learning outcomes in a gender-mixed computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) course in introductory psychology. Our main hypotheses were that the diversity climate-learning outcome relationships would be stronger for male (gender minority) than for female students (gender majority). Methods: This study used data from a large sample of university first-year students at a blended learning university (n = 1,172, 75% female) with three points of measurement in a 9-week CSCL assignment. Findings: Moderated-mediation regression analyses confirmed that students' perceptions of the diversity climate in their CSCL group were significantly related to gains in online learning self-efficacy among male, but not female students. Furthermore, by increasing gains in self-efficacy, climate perceptions also translated into better quiz performance among male students. Contributions: This study shows that for men perceived diversity climate is a significant determinant of their individual learning outcomes. This calls for paying more attention to the minority perspectives of males in female-dominated psychological programs to better understand why this is the case.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Germany
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Author Affiliations: 1FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany