Hazari, Zahra

Hazari, Zahra
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Associate Professor, Teaching and Learning , College of Arts, Sciences & Education

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zhazari@fiu.edu

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Article
- 2021
  
  Examining the effect of early STEM experiences as a form of STEM capital and identity capital on STEM identity: A gender study
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/sce.21670 Web of Science: 000676092200001
- 2021
  
  Effect of culture on women physicists' career choice: A comparison of Muslim majority countries and the West. PHYSICAL REVIEW PHYSICS EDUCATION RESEARCH. 17.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.17.010114 Web of Science: 000626264700001
- 2021
  
  Distinct factors predict use of active learning techniques by pre-tenure and tenured STEM faculty
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/10899995.2021.1927461
- 2020
  
  The context dependence of physics identity: Examining the role of performance/competence, recognition, interest, and sense of belonging for lower and upper female physics undergraduates. JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN SCIENCE TEACHING.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/tea.21644 Web of Science: 000545481400001
- 2020
  
  The Intersection of Being Black and Being a Woman: Examining the Effect of Social Computing Relationships on Computer Science Career Choice. ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTING EDUCATION. 20.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1145/3377426 Web of Science: 000583631200001
- 2020
  
  College students' mathematics-related career intentions and high school mathematics pedagogy through the lens of identity. MATHEMATICS EDUCATION RESEARCH JOURNAL.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s13394-020-00319-w Web of Science: 000527004500001
- 2020
  
  Developing a Computing Identity Framework: Understanding Computer Science and Information Technology Career Choice. ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTING EDUCATION. 20.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1145/3365571 Web of Science: 000535726100007
- 2020
  
  Measuring the implementation of student-centered teaching strategies in lower- and upper-division STEM courses
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/10899995.2020.1768005
- 2019
  
  Impact of out-of-class science and engineering activities on physics identity and career intentions. PHYSICAL REVIEW PHYSICS EDUCATION RESEARCH. 15.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.15.020137 Web of Science: 000490759100001
- 2019
  
  High school experiences and climate change beliefs of first year college students in the United States. ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION RESEARCH. 25:925-935.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/13504622.2017.1293009 Web of Science: 000487522100010
- 2019
  
  Early informal STEM experiences and STEM identity: The importance of talking science. SCIENCE EDUCATION. 103:623-637.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/sce.21499 Web of Science: 000467257700006
- 2019
  
  Sexual harassment reported by undergraduate female physicists. PHYSICAL REVIEW PHYSICS EDUCATION RESEARCH. 15.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.15.010121 Web of Science: 000465184600001
- 2018
  
  Engaging young women in physics: An intervention to support young women's physics identity development. PHYSICAL REVIEW PHYSICS EDUCATION RESEARCH. 14.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.14.020113 Web of Science: 000449297200001
- 2018
  
  Evaluating the quality of middle school mathematics teachers, using videos rated by college students. STUDIES IN EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION. 58.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.stueduc.2018.05.006 Web of Science: 000445168700007
- 2018
  
  Promoting high school students' physics identity through explicit and implicit recognition. PHYSICAL REVIEW PHYSICS EDUCATION RESEARCH. 14.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.14.020111 Web of Science: 000445326700001
- 2018
  
  Episodic memories and the longitudinal impact of high school physics on female students' physics identity. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENCE EDUCATION. 40:1543-1566.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/09500693.2018.1486522 Web of Science: 000444090100001
- 2018
  
  Understanding the development of interest and self-efficacy in active-learning undergraduate physics courses. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENCE EDUCATION. 40:1587-1605.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/09500693.2018.1488088 Web of Science: 000444090100003
- 2017
  
  Half of Students Interested in Civil Engineering Do Not Believe in Anthropogenic Climate Change. JOURNAL OF PROFESSIONAL ISSUES IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION AND PRACTICE. 143.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000323 Web of Science: 000398726500011
- 2017
  
  Interest in STEM is contagious for students in biology, chemistry, and physics classes. SCIENCE ADVANCES. 3.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1700046 Web of Science: 000411589900025
- 2017
  
  The Importance of High School Physics Teachers for Female Students' Physics Identity and Persistence. PHYSICS TEACHER. 55:96-99.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1119/1.4974122 Web of Science: 000395804600012
- 2016
  
  Career Outcome Expectations Related to Sustainability among Students Intending to Major in Civil Engineering. JOURNAL OF PROFESSIONAL ISSUES IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION AND PRACTICE. 142.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000253 Web of Science: 000366748900006
- 2016
  
  Discussing underrepresentation as a means to facilitating female students' physics identity development. PHYSICAL REVIEW PHYSICS EDUCATION RESEARCH. 12.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.12.020101 Web of Science: 000393393300001
- 2016
  
  Identity, Critical Agency, and Engineering: An Affective Model for Predicting Engineering as a Career Choice. JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION. 105:312-340.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/jee.20118 Web of Science: 000374644700005
- 2016
  
  Mathematics Identity and Student Persistence in Engineering. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION. 32:163-171.
  Web of Science: 000374234200015
- 2016
  
  Student evaluations of physics teachers: On the stability and persistence of gender bias. PHYSICAL REVIEW PHYSICS EDUCATION RESEARCH. 12.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.12.020107 Web of Science: 000393396900005
- 2016
  
  Sustainability Goals of Students Underrepresented in Engineering: An Intersectional Study. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION. 32:1742-1748.
  Web of Science: 000389147200019
- 2015
  
  Establishing an Explanatory Model for Mathematics Identity. CHILD DEVELOPMENT. 86:1048-1062.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12363 Web of Science: 000358180900005
- 2015
  
  Obscuring power structures in the physics classroom: Linking teacher positioning, student engagement, and physics identity development. JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN SCIENCE TEACHING. 52:735-762.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/tea.21214 Web of Science: 000357406800001
- 2015
  
  Using survey questions to identify and learn more about those who exhibit design thinking traits. DESIGN STUDIES. 38:92-110.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2015.02.002 Web of Science: 000355023100004
- 2014
  
  Sustainability as a Route to Broadening Participation in Engineering. JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION. 103:137-153.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/jee.20034 Web of Science: 000331404600007
- 2013
  
  Factors that affect the physical science career interest of female students: Testing five common hypotheses. PHYSICAL REVIEW SPECIAL TOPICS-PHYSICS EDUCATION RESEARCH. 9.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.9.020115 Web of Science: 000326054100001
- 2012
  
  Stability and volatility of STEM career interest in high school: A gender study
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/sce.21007
- 2012
  
  Out-of-School Time Science Activities and Their Association with Career Interest in STEM
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/21548455.2011.629455
- 2010
  
  For the love of learning science: Connecting learning orientation and career productivity in physics and chemistry
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.6.010107
- 2010
  
  Connecting high school physics experiences, outcome expectations, physics identity, and physics career choice: A gender study
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/tea.20363
- 2009
  
  Unraveling bias from student evaluations of their high school science teachers
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/sce.20332
- 2008
  
  Gender differences in the high school and affective experiences of introductory college physics students
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1119/1.2981292
- 2007
  
  Gender differences in introductory university physics performance: The influence of high school physics preparation and affective factors
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/sce.20223
Conference
- 2021
  
  The Impact of Technical Interviews, and other Professional and Cultural Experiences on Students' Computing Identity. 415-421.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1145/3430665.3456362
- 2020
  
  Computing pathways: A quantitative inquiry into the dynamic pathways of students in computing with gender comparisons
- 2020
  
  Believe that they can achieve: How Teacher Attitudes Toward Physics Impact Student Outcomes. 198-203.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1119/perc.2020.pr.Head Web of Science: 000680869100032
- 2020
  
  Understanding the Experiences that Contribute to the Inclusion of Underrepresented Groups in Computing
  Web of Science: 000646660800233
- 2019
  
  Exploring computing identity and persistence across multiple groups using structural equation modeling
- 2019
  
  Examining physics identity development through two high school interventions
  Web of Science: 000680866100010
- 2019
  
  Student response to a careers in physics lesson. 208-213.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1119/perc.2019.pr.Head Web of Science: 000680866900032
- 2018
  
  Examining the computing identity of high-achieving underserved computing students on the basis of gender, field, and year in school
- 2013
  
  Understanding engineering identity through structural equation modeling. 50-56.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1109/FIE.2013.6684787
- 2013
  
  Disciplinary differences in engineering students' aspirations and self-perceptions
- 2013
  
  The development of critical engineering agency, identity, and the impact on engineering career choices
- 2013
  
  Physics career intentions: The effect of physics identity, math identity, and gender. 262-265.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1063/1.4789702
- 2011
  
  Examining the impact of mathematics identity on the choice of engineering careers for male and female students
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1109/FIE.2011.6142881
- 2011
  
  Engineering persisters and non-persisters: Understanding inflow and outflow trends between middle school and college
- 2009
  
  Career motivations of freshman engineering and non-engineering students: A gender study
Editorial Material
- 2018
  
  Towards Meaningful Physics Recognition: What does this recognition actually look like?. PHYSICS TEACHER.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1119/1.5055325 Web of Science: 000445092900009
Proceedings Paper
- 2018
  
  A Structural Equation Model Analysis of Computing Identity Sub-Constructs and Student Academic Persistence. 2012 FRONTIERS IN EDUCATION CONFERENCE (FIE).
  Web of Science: 000468396900007
- 2015
  
  Determining strategies that predict physics identity: Emphasizing recognition and interest. 2013 PHYSICS EDUCATION RESEARCH CONFERENCE. 199-202.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1119/perc.2015.pr.045 Web of Science: 000375147300047
- 2014
  
  Do Engineers Beget Engineers? Exploring Connections Between the Engineering-related Career Choices of Students and their Families. 2011 ASEE ANNUAL CONFERENCE & EXPOSITION.
  Web of Science: 000383779705057
- 2014
  
  Exposure to Underrepresentation Discussion: The Impacts on Women's Attitudes and Identities. 2013 PHYSICS EDUCATION RESEARCH CONFERENCE. 211-214.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1119/perc.2014.pr.049 Web of Science: 000375145900051

chaired theses and dissertations

Pelaez, Bronwen Bares, Examining the Relationships between Gender Role Congruity, Identity, and the Choice to Persist for Women in Undergraduate Physics Majors 2017

principal investigator on

Collaborative Research: Mobilizing Teachers to Increase Capacity and Broaden Women's Participation in Physics awarded by National Science Foundation 2017 - 2021
A study of how Pre-College Informal Activities Influence Female Participation in STEM Careers awarded by National Science Foundation 2017 - 2019
Outcome Programs and Science Career Intentions (OPSCI) awarded by National Science Foundation 2015 - 2017
Factors Influencing College Success in Information Technology (FICSIT) awarded by National Science Foundation 2015 - 2016
CAREER: Changing the Landscape: Towards the Development of a Physics Identity in High School awarded by National Science Foundation 2014 - 2016

co-principal investigator on

Collaborative Research: Florida-IT-Pathways to Success (Flit-Path) awarded by National Science Foundation 2016 - 2021
Community for Faculty Development awarded by Howard Hughes Medical Institute 2015 - 2018

teaching activities

EDF6481-U02: Educational Research Methodology Fall Term 2019
EDG7980-U09: Ed.D. Dissertation Fall Term 2019
EDG7980-U09: Ed.D. Dissertation Spring Term 2019
EDG7980-U31: Ed.D. Dissertation Fall Term 2019
EDG7980-U31: Ed.D. Dissertation Spring Term 2019
MAE4394-U01: Perspectives on Mathematics and Science Education Spring Term 2019
SCE4194-U01: Perspectives in Science and Math Education Spring Term 2019

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Zahra Hazari

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Education & Educational Research
Engineering
Physics
Psychology
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