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McShane, Blakeley B.; Gal, David; Gelman, Andrew; Robert, Christian; Tackett, Jennifer L. – Grantee Submission, 2019
We discuss problems the null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) paradigm poses for replication and more broadly in the biomedical and social sciences as well as how these problems remain unresolved by proposals involving modified p-value thresholds, confidence intervals, and Bayes factors. We then discuss our own proposal, which is to abandon…
Descriptors: Statistics, Replication (Evaluation), Biomedicine, Social Sciences
Rosenzweig, Emily Q.; Hecht, Cameron A.; Priniski, Stacy J.; Canning, Elizabeth A.; Asher, Michael W.; Tibbetts, Yoi; Hyde, Janet S.; Harackiewicz, Judith M. – Grantee Submission, 2021
Researchers often invoke the metaphor of a pipeline when studying participation in careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), focusing on the important issue of students who "leak" from the pipeline, but largely ignoring students who persist in STEM. Using interview, survey, and institutional data over 6 years,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, College Students, Biomedicine, Career Choice
Martschenko, Daphne; Trejo, Sam; Domingue, Benjamin W. – Grantee Submission, 2019
Driven by our recent mapping of the human genome, genetics research is increasingly prominent and beginning to reintersect with education research. We describe previous intersections of these fields, focusing on the ways that they were harmful. We then discuss novel features of genetics research in the current era, with an emphasis on…
Descriptors: Genetics, Educational Research, Educational History, Educational Trends
Hecht, Cameron A.; Harackiewicz, Judith M.; Priniski, Stacy J.; Canning, Elizabeth A.; Tibbettts, Yoi; Hyde, Janet S. – Grantee Submission, 2019
A wide range of occupations require science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) skills, yet almost half of students who intend to pursue a postsecondary STEM education abandon these plans before graduating from college. This attrition is especially pronounced among underrepresented groups (i.e., racial/ethnic minorities and…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, College Science, Introductory Courses, Biology
Rosenzweig, Emily Q.; Harackiewicz, Judith M.; Hecht, Cameron A.; Priniski, Stacy J.; Canning, Elizabeth A.; Tibbetts, Yoi; Asher, Michael W.; Hyde, Janet S. – Grantee Submission, 2020
This study examined whether students who left biomedical fields of study during college did so primarily because they became disenchanted with those fields or because they felt attracted to alternative fields of study. We identified 1,193 students intending to pursue biomedical fields of study early in college, collected data about their beliefs…
Descriptors: Biomedicine, Student Attrition, Predictor Variables, Minority Group Students