TY - JOUR
T1 - Pathways of student stayers, movers, and leavers in the first two years of undergraduate engineering
AU - Smith, Bethany B.
AU - Park, Yong Seok
AU - Ross, Lydia
AU - Krause, Stephen J.
AU - Chen, Ying Chih
AU - Middleton, James A.
AU - Judson, Eugene
AU - Culbertson, Robert J.
AU - Ankeny, Casey Jane
AU - Hjelmstad, Keith D.
AU - Yan, Claire Y.
N1 - Funding Information:
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1226586.
Publisher Copyright:
© American Society for Engineering Education, 2016.
PY - 2016/6/26
Y1 - 2016/6/26
N2 - In this research paper the pathways of 720 engineering freshman entering a large, southwestern university in Fall 2007 were tracked over their first four semesters along with their academic achievement and demographic information. The same analysis was performed on 1855 engineering freshman entering the same large, southwestern university in Fall 2012. Based on their junior entry status, we characterized student pathways in their first two years in terms of stayers (stayed in engineering), movers (stayed at the university but in a different major), and leavers (left the university). Our efforts address the research question: "What role does student performance, gender, and sense of belonging have in student persistence and destination during the first two years of engineering?" The results of our work indicate that student performance, gender, and sense of belonging all influence education pathway in different ways.
AB - In this research paper the pathways of 720 engineering freshman entering a large, southwestern university in Fall 2007 were tracked over their first four semesters along with their academic achievement and demographic information. The same analysis was performed on 1855 engineering freshman entering the same large, southwestern university in Fall 2012. Based on their junior entry status, we characterized student pathways in their first two years in terms of stayers (stayed in engineering), movers (stayed at the university but in a different major), and leavers (left the university). Our efforts address the research question: "What role does student performance, gender, and sense of belonging have in student persistence and destination during the first two years of engineering?" The results of our work indicate that student performance, gender, and sense of belonging all influence education pathway in different ways.
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:84983247117
SN - 2153-5965
VL - 2016-June
JO - ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
JF - ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
T2 - 123rd ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition
Y2 - 26 June 2016 through 29 June 2016
ER -