DT Spaulding, JA Kennedy, A Rózsavölgyi… - … in STEM Education, 2022 - j-stem.net

First Year STEM Students' Satisfaction with Peer Mentoring: A Predictor for Student Retention.

Stem education interventions

Kennedy, Spaulding

GSID: 5UL0De1IwHgJ

Excerpt

Peer mentoring is often used as a method to help retain first year STEM students. This study addressed the following research question: Can we predict in the first semester which first-year STEM students will return as sophomores and which ones will not? And if so, what factors were the best predictors of STEM students returning? An Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) was first employed and identified four factors: Academic Skills, Satisfaction with Mentors, Institutional Fit, and Academic Relationships). Next a binary regression was …