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Session

3F: Women in STEM
Virtual location: VIRTUAL: Agora Meetings

Presentation 3

11:56am - 12:04pm

Determinants of Women’s Persistence in Engineering: A Structural Equation Modeling Study in Universities in Northern Peru

ANGELICA MARIA MINCHOLA VASQUEZ¹, AGUSTÍN MEDINA MARCHENA², LIDIA MERCEDES OLAYA GUERRERO³, CÉSAR AUGUSTO MINGUILLO RUBIO⁴, CHRISTIAN DAVID CORRALES OTAZÚ⁵, SARITA JESSICA APAZA MIRANDA⁶, FIORELLA VANESSA LI VEGA³

1: Universidad César Vallejo - (PE), Perú; 2: Universidad César Vallejo - (PE); 3: Universidad César Vallejo - (PE); 4: Universidad Señor de Sipán - (PE); 5: Universidad Católica de Santa María de Arequipa - (PE); 6: Universidad Continental - (PE)

This study aimed to determine the effect of perceived teacher support and classroom climate on persistence among women in engineering programs, assessing the mediating role of academic self-efficacy through a structural equation model in universities in northern Peru. A quantitative, explanatory, non-experimental, cross-sectional design was employed with a sample of 350 female engineering students. Four reflective latent constructs (teacher support, classroom climate, academic self-efficacy, and persistence) were measured using 16 Likert-type items. The measurement model showed high reliability and adequate convergent and discriminant validity, while the overall model fit was excellent (CFI=0.975; TLI=0.968; RMSEA=0.048; SRMR=0.035). Structural results indicated that teacher support and classroom climate positively and significantly predicted academic self-efficacy (β=0.42 and β=0.31), and self-efficacy, in turn, predicted persistence with a substantial effect (β=0.48). Additional direct effects from teacher support and classroom climate to persistence were also significant, and indirect effects confirmed partial mediation via self-efficacy for both contextual predictors. The findings suggested that pedagogical context fostered persistence through motivational pathways and complementary direct influences. Recommendations included strengthening faculty development in actionable feedback and academic encouragement, promoting equitable and psychologically safe classroom climates, and extending evidence through longitudinal designs and subgroup analyses.