Aligning Science Achievement and STEM Expectations for College Success: A Comparative Study of Curricular Standardization

Aligning Science Achievement and STEM Expectations for College Success: A Comparative Study of Curricular Standardization

Lack of preparation in science leads to high rates of attrition among science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors, even among students who are highly oriented toward STEM. Using data for twenty-seven countries from the 2006 Program for International Student Assessment, we compare...

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Main Authors: Siqi Han, Claudia Buchmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Russell Sage Foundation 2016-04-01
Series:RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
Subjects:
STEM attrition
curriculum; standardization
science achievement
cross-national research
Online Access:http://www.rsfjournal.org/doi/full/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.1.09

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http://www.rsfjournal.org/doi/full/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.1.09

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