Revisiting the Definition of Overpersistence
Revisiting the Definition of Overpersistence
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重新审视过度坚持的定义
DOI：
10.1109/fie49875.2021.9637444
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2021
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Orr, Marisa K.
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Martin, Baker A.;Ehlert, Katherine M.;Brotherton, Haleh B.;Brawner, Catherine E.;Orr, Marisa K.
在这篇完整的研究论文中，我们提出了工程学科中过度坚持的新定义，并在一家机构调查了它的含义。准确界定概念上和操作上的过度坚持，是预测过度坚持和确定指标的关键一步，这些指标将允许对有过度坚持风险的学生进行个性化指导。我们之前已经确定，我们感兴趣的人群是这样的学生：在该机构注册为第一次上大学至少一年的学生，参加全日制课程，有六年的时间毕业，并且只注册了一个授予学位的项目。在这组学生中，如果学生(I)在没有获得学位的情况下离开大学，或者(Ii)在同一专业学习了六年但没有毕业，我们就将他们识别为过度坚持者，从而实现了过度坚持。在这项工作中，我们使用更新的数据重新定义了我们对过度坚持的定义，特别是通过重新考虑两组学生-那些在离开学校之前只在该学科呆了很短时间的人(以前被归类为过度坚持者)，以及那些在该学科呆了很长时间但最终换了专业的人(以前被排除在初始人群之外)。我们的结论是，在一所拥有工程专业一年级的学校，对过度坚持的最合适定义是，一个学生在第一个特定学科的专业上花了三个学期或更多的学期，但在进入学校后的六年内没有从该专业毕业。这些结果将有助于研究人员和实践者为有过度坚持某一专业风险的学生寻找替代的成功途径。
In this Full Research Paper, we propose a new definition of overpersistence in an engineering discipline and investigate its implications at one institution. Precisely defining overpersistence in both a conceptual and operational sense is a critical step in predicting overpersistence and identifying indicators that will allow for personalized guidance for students at risk of overpersisting. We have previously identified our population of interest as students who enroll at the institution as first-time-in-college students for at least one year, attend full time, have had six years to graduate, and have enrolled in only one degree-granting program. Within this group, we operationalized overpersistence by identifying students as overpersisters if they either (i) left the university without a degree or (ii) enrolled in the same major for six years and did not graduate. In this work, we revisit our definition of overpersistence using more recent data by reconsidering two groups of students in particular - those who spend only a short time in the discipline before leaving the institution (formerly classified as overpersisters), and those who spend a long time in the discipline but eventually switch majors (formerly excluded from the initial population). We conclude that the most appropriate definition of overpersistence at an institution with a first-year engineering program is when a student spends three or more semesters in their first discipline-specific major and does not graduate in that major within six years of matriculation to the institution. These results will be useful for researchers and practitioners seeking to identify alternative paths for success for students who are at risk of overpersisting in a major.