Indicators of Success in STEM Majors: A Cohort Study.
Indicators of Success in STEM Majors: A Cohort Study.
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STEM 专业的成功指标：队列研究。
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2011
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Greta Bolin
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作者：
R. Thompson;Greta Bolin
打击这一有据可查的问题的努力最近有了新的势头。仅在2005年和2006年，受人尊敬的学术、科学和商业组织就发表了六份以上关于改善美国科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）教育的必要性的主要报告（Kuenzi, 2008）。此外，在这几年里，第109届国会通过了三项有关STEM教育的法案，最近，在2007年，第110届国会签署了全面的《美国竞争法案》（Kuenzi, 2008）。《竞争法案》不仅扩大了现有的STEM教育项目，而且还实施了10多个新项目，以增加进入STEM学科并最终进入STEM职业领域的学生人数——它似乎正在发挥作用。随着所有这些关注，以及学术和金钱的影响，旨在更好地准备和招募STEM领域的学生，全国范围内就读STEM专业的学生数量有所增加，包括一所大学在本研究中使用的新兴研究。从图1中可以看出，在过去十年中，这所大学的STEM学科招生人数稳步增长，与2005年实施的立法和激励措施同时涌入的人数最多。图1所示。STEM入学与毕业
Efforts to combat the well-documented problem have recently taken on a new momentum. In 2005 and 2006 alone, more than six major reports were released by respected academic, scientific and business organizations concerning the need to improve US science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education (Kuenzi, 2008). In addition, during these years three bills concerning STEM education were passed into law by the 109th congress and more recently, in 2007 the comprehensive America COMPETES Act was signed into law by the 110th congress (Kuenzi, 2008). The COMPETES act serves to not only expand existing STEM education programs, but also to implement more than 10 new programs to increase the number of students entering STEM disciplines and ultimately, STEM career fields––and it appears that it is working. With all of this attention, and academic and monetary influence directed at trying to better prepare and recruit students into STEM fields, there has been an increase in the number of students enrolling in STEM majors across the country including the emerging research one university used in this study. As one can see from Figure 1, enrollment in STEM disciplines has steadily increased at this university over the last decade with the largest influx concurrent with the legislation and incentives implemented in 2005. figure 1. STEM Enrollment Vs. Graduation