Assessing Factors that Influence the Recruitment of Majors from Introductory Geology Classes at Northern Arizona University
Assessing Factors that Influence the Recruitment of Majors from Introductory Geology Classes at Northern Arizona University
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评估影响北亚利桑那大学地质入门课程专业招生的因素
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2010
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James I. Bowie
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T. D. Hoisch;James I. Bowie
为了指导北方亚利桑那大学地质学专业本科生招生策略的制定，我们对783名地质学导论班学生和23名地质学专业大三、大四学生进行了调查。我们的分析表明，在入门班的学生中，有17%的人可能是招聘的候选人。在地质学专业的影响因素包括良好的就业能力，良好的工资潜力，以及户外工作，野外工作，观察自然，旅游和环保就业的机会。此外，学生们认为地质学家可能是最有成就感的科学职业，也是最环保的职业之一。然而，学生们认为地质学是最不困难的科学，地质学职业相对于其他科学来说工资低，声望低。这些负面看法是招聘的一个问题，可以通过向入门学生提供信息，显示地质学家与其他科学职业相比的工资，并通过传达更高级的地质学课程的严格性质来解决。
In order to guide the formulation of strategies for recruiting undergraduates into the geology program at Northern Arizona University, we surveyed 783 students in introductory geology classes and 23 geology majors in their junior and senior years. Our analysis shows that ∼7% of students in the introductory classes are possible candidates for recruitment. Influential factors that weigh in favor of majoring in geology include good employability, good salary potential, and opportunities for working outdoors, field work, observing nature, travel, and environmentally friendly employment. In addition, students view a career as a geologist as potentially the most fulfilling of the science occupations and among the more environmentally friendly. However, students perceive geology to be the least difficult of the sciences, and geology occupations to be low-paying and low in prestige relative to the other sciences. These negative perceptions are a problem for recruitment and may be countered by providing information to introductory students showing the salaries of geologists in comparison to other science occupations, and by communicating the rigorous nature of the more advanced geology classes.