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Walczak, Mary M.; Ziegler-Graham, Kathryn; Bozak, Emily Berry; Henry, Katherine; Rice, Kiegan; Richards, Marc – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2019
Motivated by assessment of externally awarded grants and internal programmatic practices, we used transcript and demographic data for students entering a highly selective residential liberal arts college between 2002-2015 to answer institutional-level questions about course taking patterns and pathways relevant to Science, Technology, Engineering,…
Descriptors: College Students, STEM Education, Majors (Students), Course Selection (Students)
Anderson, Rick – Appalachian Collaborative Center for Learning, Assessment, and Instruction in Mathematics (ACCLAIM), 2006
The focus of this paper is a group of rural high school students and the factors that contributed to their participation in mathematics classes beyond those minimally required for high school graduation. The author follows Gutierrez (2002) in referring to participation as course taking, particularly in elective and advanced mathematics classes.…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Course Selection (Students), Elective Courses, High School Students
Kroc, Rick; Howard, Rich; Hull, Pat; Woodard, Doug – 1997
This study looked at the relationship between the programs students chose upon college entry, the programs from which they graduated, and the time taken to graduate. Individual student data on more than 204,000 freshmen entering 38 public, land grant, and Research I universities in 1988 and 1990 were collected. Descriptive statistics were used to…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Course Selection (Students), Decision Making, Diversity (Institutional)