Guest Comment: Why Undergraduates Leave the Sciences.

Seymour, Elaine

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ERIC Number: EJ500175

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1995

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Guest Comment: Why Undergraduates Leave the Sciences.

Seymour, Elaine

American Journal of Physics, v63 n3 p199-202 Mar 1995

Finds that people who switched from science to nonscience majors at four-year colleges and universities left for the same reasons that "persisters" were discontented with their educational experience. Examines criticisms of the structure of science, mathematics, and engineering education, and the loss of women and minorities. (LZ)

Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Engineering Education, Higher Education, Instructional Improvement, Mathematics Education, Minority Groups, Science Departments, Science Education, Student Attrition, Undergraduate Students, Womens Education

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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