Persistence at what cost? How graduate engineering students consider the costs of persistence within attrition considerations
Persistence at what cost? How graduate engineering students consider the costs of persistence within attrition considerations
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坚持要付出什么代价？
DOI：
10.1002/jee.20528
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发表时间：
2023
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Berdanier, Catherine G. P.
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作者：
Sallai, Gabriella M.;Bahnson, Matthew;Shanachilubwa, Kanembe;Berdanier, Catherine G. P.
背景虽然以前的高等教育研究表明，上研究生的学费高昂是人员流失决策的关键动机，但在工程学领域，大多数研究生都得到了研究奖学金的全额资助，这表明有不同的问题导致个人考虑离开。关于工程学研究生项目的非财务成本以及这些成本可能对持续性或流失性的影响的研究很少。目的/假设通过成本的视角，作为期望价值理论框架和特定于工程人员流失的毕业生流失决策(Grad)模型概念框架的组成部分，本文的目的是描述工程专业研究生与就读研究生院相关的成本，并记录成本如何影响学生继续或攻读专业的决定。设计/方法通过对美国R1工程学博士项目的42名工程研究生进行半结构化访谈收集数据，这些学生已经考虑，目前正在考虑，结果除了以前在研究中计算的时间和金钱成本外，参与者还确定了生活平衡的成本、幸福的成本，并确定了知情的机会成本，这些成本是根据他们选择不上研究生可能达到的。由于这些成本与坚持有关，学生主要认为他们花费的努力和已经发生的成本是坚持的主要动机，而不是研究生学位的任何预期收益。结论本工作的发现扩展了研究生模型概念框架的成本成分，使他们对研究生在工科研究生项目中坚持的成本有了更深的理解。它证明，坚持的动力可能不是由于特别强烈的目标，而可能是已经产生的成本。通过这项研究，学术界、学生、导师和大学政策制定者可以更好地了解工程学研究生在研究生学习过程中的需求。
BackgroundWhile previous work in higher education documents the impact of high tuition costs of attending graduate school as a key motivator in attrition decisions, in engineering, most graduate students are fully funded on research fellowships, indicating there are different issues causing individuals to consider departure. There has been little work characterizing nonfinancial costs for students in engineering graduate programs and the impact these costs may have on persistence or attrition.Purpose/HypothesisFramed through the lens of cost as a component of the expectancy–value theory framework and the graduate attrition decisions (GrAD) model conceptual framework specific to engineering attrition, the purpose of this article is to characterize the costs engineering graduate students associate with attending graduate school and document how costs affect students' decisions to persist or depart.Design/MethodData were collected through semistructured interviews with 42 engineering graduate students from R1 engineering doctoral programs across the United States who have considered, are currently considering, or have chosen to depart from their engineering PhD programs with a master's degree.ResultsIn addition to time and money, which are costs previously captured in research, participants identified costs to life balance, costs to well‐being, and identify‐informed opportunity costs framed in terms of what “could have been” if they had chosen to not go to graduate school. As these costs relate to persistence, students primarily identified their expended effort and already‐incurred costs as the primary motivator for persistence, rather than any expected benefits of a graduate degree.ConclusionThe findings of this work expand the cost component of the GrAD model conceptual framework, providing a deeper understanding of the costs that graduate students relate to their persistence in engineering graduate programs. It evidences that motivation to persist may not be due to particularly strong goals but may result from costs already incurred. Through this research, the scholarly community, students, advisors, and university policymakers can better understand the needs of engineering graduate students as they navigate graduate study.
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