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JL Lott, S Gardner, DA Powers - Journal of College Student …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com

Doctoral student attrition in the STEM fields: An exploratory event history analysis.

Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate AND Program Evaluation

Gardner, Lott

GSID: 6hBUit36-YwJ

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The STEM fields, otherwise known as the Sciences, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics areas, have become the focus of multiple studies and funding initiatives in recent years. Despite these efforts, lingering concerns exist about who enters, who is retained, and who completes the doctorate in STEM fields. This study utilizes discrete-time event history analysis to model doctoral attrition for 10,088 individuals, in 56 STEM departments, at one research-extensive institution, located in the South, over a 20-year …

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