Talking about leaving revisited : persistence, relocation, and loss in undergraduate STEM education / Elaine Seymour, Anne-Barrie Hunter, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Seymour, Elaine, editor.

Hunter, Anne-Barrie, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.

Science.

Science--Study and teaching (Higher).

United States.

Technology--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.

Technology.

Technology--Study and teaching (Higher).

Engineering--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.

Engineering.

Engineering--Study and teaching (Higher).

Mathematics--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.

Mathematics.

Mathematics--Study and teaching (Higher).

Physical Description:

xxii, 528 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2019].

Summary:

​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--Back cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3030253031

9783030253035

OCLC:

1104617998