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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach

School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies

Cornell University

16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky

New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau

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National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)

 

STEM ATTRITION: COLLEGE STUDENT'S PATHS INTO AND OUT OF STEM FIELDS [26 November 2013]

http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2014001rev

or

http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2014/2014001rev.pdf

[full-text, 104 pages]

 

Description:

This Statistical Analysis Report presents the most recent national statistics on beginning bachelor’s and associate’s degree students’ entrance into, and attrition from, STEM fields. Using recent transcript data, it provides a first look at STEM coursetaking and examines how participation and performance in undergraduate STEM coursework, along with other factors, are associated with STEM attrition. The study is based on data from the 2004/09 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS:04/09) and the associated 2009 Postsecondary Education Transcript Study (PETS:09).

 

ERRATA: A typographical error has been found on page vi of the report's Executive Summary. The affected line should read:

 

"Bachelor’s degree STEM entrants who were male or who came from low-income backgrounds had a higher probability of leaving STEM by dropping out of college than their peers who were female or came from high-income backgrounds, net of other factors."

 

A revised version of the report will be posted when available under the publication number 2014001rev.

 

 

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Stuart Basefsky                  

Director, IWS News Bureau               

Institute for Workplace Studies

Cornell/ILR School                       

16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor             

New York, NY 10016                       

                                   

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