?Talking about Leaving Revisited discusses findings from a five-year study that explores the extent, nature, and contributory causes of field-switching both from and among �STEM� majors, and what enables persistence to graduation. The book reflects on what has and has not changed since publication of
Talking about Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave the Sciences (Elaine Seymour & Nancy M. Hewitt, Westview Press, 1997). With the editors� guidance, the authors of each chapter collaborate to address key questions, drawing on findings from each related study source: national and institutional data, interviews with faculty and students, structured observations and student assessments of teaching methods in STEM gateway courses. Pitched to a wide audience, engaging in style, and richly illustrated in the interviewees� own words, this book affords the most comprehensive explanatory account to date of persistence, relocation and loss in undergraduate sciences.
- Comprehensively addresses the causes of loss from undergraduate STEM majors�an issue of ongoing national concern.
- Presents critical research relevant for nationwide STEM education reform efforts.
- Explores the reasons why talented undergraduates abandon STEM majors.
- Dispels popular causal myths about why students choose to leave STEM majors.
This volume is based upon work supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Award No. 2012-6-05 and the National Science Foundation Award No. DUE 1224637.
?Talking about Leaving Revisited discusses findings from a five-year study that explores the extent, nature, and contributory causes of field-switching both from and among �STEM� majors, and what enables persistence to graduation. The book reflects on what has and has not changed since publication of
Talking about Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave the Sciences (Elaine Seymour & Nancy M. Hewitt, Westview Press, 1997). With the editors� guidance, the authors of each chapter collaborate to address key questions, drawing on findings from each related study source: national and institutional data, interviews with faculty and students, structured observations and student assessments of teaching methods in STEM gateway courses. Pitched to a wide audience, engaging in style, and richly illustrated in the interviewees� own words, this book affords the most comprehensive explanatory account to date of persistence, relocation and loss in undergraduate sciences.
- Comprehensively addresses the causes of loss from undergraduate STEM majors�an issue of ongoing national concern.
- Presents critical research relevant for nationwide STEM education reform efforts.
- Explores the reasons why talented undergraduates abandon STEM majors.
- Dispels popular causal myths about why students choose to leave STEM majors.
This volume is based upon work supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Award No. 2012-6-05 and the National Science Foundation Award No. DUE 1224637.
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