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Download full textCalifornia State Postsecondary Education Commission, Sacramento. – 1986
In 1985, the California legislature directed the California Postsecondary Education Commission to study the attrition rate of students in engineering education in order to learn if ethnic minority and women students had a higher drop-out rate than all engineering students and, if so, to determine the reasons for their high attrition. In that…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Science, Engineering Education, Females
