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A Major in Science? Initial Beliefs and Final Outcomes for College Major and Dropout / Ralph Stinebrickner, Todd R. Stinebrickner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stinebrickner, Ralph.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w19165.
- NBER working paper series no. w19165
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2013.
- Summary:
- Taking advantage of unique longitudinal data, we provide the first characterization of what college students believe at the time of entrance about their final major, relate these beliefs to actual major outcomes, and, provide an understanding of why students hold the initial beliefs about majors that they do. The data collection and analysis are based directly on a conceptual model in which a student's final major is best viewed as the end result of a learning process. We find that students enter school quite optimistic/interested about obtaining a science degree, but that relatively few students end up graduating with a science degree. The substantial overoptimism about completing a degree in science can be attributed largely to students beginning school with misperceptions about their ability to perform well academically in science.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- June 2013.
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