Introducing “stickiness” as a versatile metric of engineering persistence
Introducing “stickiness” as a versatile metric of engineering persistence
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引入“粘性”作为工程持久性的通用指标
DOI：
10.1109/fie.2012.6462214
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2012
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Russell A. Long
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作者：
M. Ohland;Marisa K. Orr;R. Layton;S. Lord;Russell A. Long
一个新的度量，“粘性”，提出了纵向跟踪所有的学生谁接触到一个学科，以确定这些学生将“坚持”到该学科和毕业的可能性在it. This度量的通用性是相关的学生通过各种途径与工程接触。粘性表现出显著的学科分化。虽然早期的工作表明，工业工程是最成功的吸引和留住学生，粘性的学科分布表明，工业工程是例外。按种族/民族和性别分列，观察到粘性的变化要大得多（高达48%），并确定了积极和消极的结果，其中特定亚群的学生更有可能或更少地坚持比预期的。按种族/民族和性别汇总后，转学生的学科粘性与初入大学生的学科粘性排序相同，但转学粘性的学科差异较小，且所有学科的转学生的粘性均高于初入大学生。
A new metric, “stickiness,” is proposed, tracking longitudinally all students who have contact with a discipline to determine the likelihood those students will “stick” to that discipline and graduate in it. This metric has the versatility to be relevant for students making contact with engineering through a variety of pathways. Stickiness exhibits significant disciplinary differentiation. Whereas earlier work has shown that Industrial Engineering is the most successful at attracting and retaining students, the disciplinary distribution of stickiness shows that Industrial Engineering is exceptional. Disaggregating by race/ethnicity and gender, much larger variations in stickiness are observed (as much as 48 percent), and positive and negative outcomes are identified where students in particular subpopulations are more or less likely to stick than expected. Aggregated by race/ethnicity and gender, the stickiness of transfer students ranks the disciplines in the same order as the stickiness of first-time-in-college students, but transfer stickiness exhibits less disciplinary variation and transfer students in all disciplines exhibit higher stickiness than first-time-in-college students.