Talking about Leaving Revisited - Persistence, Relocation, and Loss in Undergraduate STEM Education (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	December 2019
First published:	2019
Editors:	Elaine Seymour • Anne-Barrie Hunter
Contributors:	Heather Thiry • Timothy J. Weston • Raquel P. Harper • Dana G. Holland • Andrew K. Koch • Brent M. Drake
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	528
Edition:	1st ed. 2019
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-025303-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Educational psychology Books > Social sciences > Education > Teaching of a specific subject Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > Universities / polytechnics
LSN:	3-03-025303-1
Barcode:	9783030253035

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