Factors influencing freshmen retention in engineering programs

ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 11672-11677

  Carter, Rufus L ^a   Hoit, Marc ^a   Anderson, Tim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; ACADEMIC PROGRESS; STUDENT RETENTION;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STUDENTS; SURVEYING;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 8744314806     PISSN: 01901052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

1. Besterfield-Sacre, Mary E., Cynthia J. Atman, and Larry J. Shuman," Characteristics of Freshman Engineering Students: Models for Determining Student Attrition in Engineering," Journal of Engineering Education, 1997, pp. 139-149.
2. Board of Engineering Education - National Research Council, "Improving Retention in Undergraduate Engineering Education," Issues in Engineering Education: A Bulletin Addressing Culture Change in Engineering Education, vol. 1, no. 1, April 1992.
3. Astin, Alexander W. (1993) What Matters in College?: Four Critical Years Revisited, Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco, 1993, especially Chapter 11.
4. Seymour, Elaine and Nancy Hewitt Talking About Leaving - Factors Contributing to High Attrition Rates Among Science, Mathematics and Engineering Undergraduate Majors, A Final Report to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation on an Ethnographic Inquiry at Seven Institutions, Bureau of Sociological Research, University of Colorado: Boulder, April 1994.