Personalities and Pipelines: Exploring the Role of Personality in Student Self-selection Into Stem Majors
Description:
Despite all the national efforts to increase STEM enrollment in the United States, the gap between the U.S. and other developed countries in terms of STEM graduates has widened over the last 20 years. Researchers have studied factors such as gender, race, high school GPA, and the student’s socioeconomic status for their impact on STEM enrollment. This study offers another possible explanation of why students might choose, or not choose, to enroll in STEM majors by examining the relationship bet…
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Date:
May 2012
Creator:
Simpson, Patricia
Partner:
UNT Libraries