Using Youth Participatory Action Research to Promote Self-Efficacy in Math and Science

Abstract

Youth participatory action research is a pedagogy in which students work together to explore an issue that affects them. The school counselor measured the impact on Latina students who participated in the project based on participants’ self-efficacy in attending college and being successful in math and science. Results indicated that students were more confident in their abilities in science and math and also believed they would attend college in the future by the end of the intervention.