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Direct linkBettencourt, Genia; Manly, Catherine A.; Kimball, Ezekiel; Wells, Ryan S. – Review of Higher Education, 2020
STEM majors offer pathways to lucrative careers but are often inaccessible to first-generation students. Using data from the Education Longitudinal Study, we conducted descriptive statistics, regression analyses, and group comparisons to examine differences between first-generation students and continuing-generation students across STEM degree,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Educational Attainment, First Generation College Students, Academic Persistence
Aryee, Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The lack of students' persistence (or student's effort to continue their academic studies until degree completion) in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) and the attrition of STEM students as well as the shortage of STEM workers have gathered much attention from policy makers, governmental agencies, higher education…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, STEM Education, Cognitive Ability, Predictor Variables
