Analysis of social media forums to elicit narratives of graduate engineering student attrition
Analysis of social media forums to elicit narratives of graduate engineering student attrition
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DOI：
10.1002/jee.20299
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发表时间：
2019-12-03
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Satterfield, Derrick
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作者：
Berdanier, Catherine G. P.;Whitehair, Carey;Satterfield, Derrick
背景研究生工程专业的学生流失很普遍，但大多数研究研究生流失的文献都是在STEM或工程以外的学科中完成的，对流失或持久性的理解都不完整。目的/假设本研究旨在探讨理工科研究生自然减员动机间的关系。设计/方法数据收集使用一个在线网络抓取“机器人”，从在线论坛Reddit挖掘数据。通过开放编码的方法对收集到的匿名文本论坛帖子进行了定性分析。结果：新兴的主题揭示了顾问的角色，学生的感知成本，他们的支持网络，目标，他们的看法别人如何看待他们，生活和工作质量之间的相互联系。我们的模型是灵活的，因为它阐明了可能影响学生流失的因素的潜在组合。结论本研究提供了一个框架，通过该框架，不同的利益相关者可以接近研究生的支持和教育，包括指导学生走向或远离研究生院，根据学生的目标。
Background Graduate engineering student attrition is prevalent, but most literature that studies graduate attrition is accomplished in disciplines outside of STEM or engineering, yielding an incomplete understanding of either attrition or persistence. Purpose/Hypothesis The purpose of this article is to investigate the relationships between motivators of attrition for engineering graduate students. Design/Method Data were collected using an online Web-scraping "bot" that mines data from the online forum Reddit. The anonymous textual forum threads collected were qualitatively analyzed through open-coding methods. Results The emergent themes reveal the interconnectedness between the roles of the advisor, student perception of cost, their support network, goals, their perceptions of how others perceive them, and quality of life and work. Our model is flexible in that it illuminates underlying combinations of factors that can influence student attrition. Conclusion This study provides a framework by which various stakeholders can approach the support and education of graduate students, including mentoring students both toward or away from graduate school per the student's goals.