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Borman, Kathryn M., Wao, Hesborn, Lee, Reginald S. |
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Conference Papers - American Sociological Association; 2007 Annual Meeting, p1, 20p, 8 Charts |
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In this paper, we examine the relationships among a number of factors predictive of attainment of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) undergraduate degree. These include time-to-degree, academic achievement, and employment. Participants in the study include 16,705 members of the 1996-97 Florida high school graduating cohort. Besides examining the attainment of a STEM degree, our analyses focused on the outcome for two fields within the STEM groupingâ?”Engineering and Biology. The results suggest that women are less likely than men to attain STEM degree in general and Engineering in particular but more likely to attain a Biology degree. A student's ethnicity/race matters such that Asians are twice as likely to attain and Blacks are one and half times to attain a STEM degree. The longer the time students spend pursuing the BA, the higher the odds that they will attain a STEM degree in general and an engineering degree in particular but the lower the odds that they will attain a Biology degree. Students with higher high school GPA scores are almost five times likely to attain STEM degree and twice as likely to attain an Engineering degree. There is no evidence that the number of quarters student work while in high school impact STEM degree attainment. There not enough evidence supporting a relationship between average annual salary earned while in high school and attainment of a STEM or an Engineering degree. The relationship between annual salary earned while in college and STEM, Engineering or Biology degree attainments are mixed. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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