Persistence, Engagement, and Migration in Engineering Programs

By Matthew W. Ohland, Sheri D. Sheppard, Gary Lichtenstein, Ozgur Eris, Debbie Chachra, Richard A. Layton. 2008

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Understanding the Risk of Attrition in Undergraduate Engineering: Results from the Project to Assess Climate in Engineering (2012, methodology): “The operationalization of retention in undergraduate engineering varies broadly from measurements of satisfaction with the major, intentions to persist, course-taking patterns, decisions to seek careers in the given field, to actual persistence to degree completion (e.g., Amelink & Creamer, 2010; Oh”
Why Do Students Choose Engineering? A Qualitative, Longitudinal Investigation of Students' Motivational Values (2010, unknown): “Although Ohland et al. (2008) recently found that persistence rates of engineering students are actually not that different than those for students in other majors, their findings continue to highlight the gender gap in engineering majors.”
Comparing the Undergraduate Experience of Engineers to All Other Majors: Significant Differences are Programmatic (2010, result): “Ohland et al. (2008) and McCormick et al. (forthcoming) report data from two large national data bases showing that retention in engineering is comparable and in some cases even higher than that of other majors.”
Race, Gender, and Measures of Success in Engineering Education (2011, methodology): “Eight-semester persistence has also been used in the literature as a metric for success in engineering (Astin & Astin 1992, Humphreys & Freeland, 1992; Lord et al., 2009; Ohland et al., 2008; Richardson & Dantzler, 2002; Seymour & Hewitt 1997).”
Outcomes of a Longitudinal Administration of the Persistence in Engineering Survey (2010, background): “It is higher than the recently published persistence number of 57 percent by Ohland et al. (2008) based on over 300,000 students at nine institutions; the difference is most likely mainly due to Ohland et al. including in their count students who matriculated college but were no longer enrolled at…”
Exploring the Engineering Student Experience: Findings from the Academic Pathways of People Learning Engineering Survey (APPLES) (2010, result): “…38 purposes of reporting, scale was normalized and converted to 0-100 ***p<.001, **p<.01, *p<.05, ns=not significant Seniors and first-year students report similar GPA Index scores (Table 5.8); this finding is consistent with data presented in Ohland et al. (2008) and Lichtenstein et al. (2009).”
An Analysis of Motivation Constructs with First‐Year Engineering Students: Relationships Among Expectancies, Values, Achievement, and Career Plans (2010, background): “Despite numerous attempts to increase enrollments, the number of engineering graduates has decreased over the past 20 years (Ohland et al., 2008) and the lack of diversity in the engineering workforce remains troubling.”
Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. (2010, background): “For example, in engineering the national rate of retention from entry into the major to graduation is just under 60 percent for women and men (Ohland et al., 2008).”
Aptitude and Personality Traits in Retention of Engineering Students (2015, background): “Ohland et al. (2008) reported that 57% of entering first-year students with engineering as their stated major persisted through their eighth semester, but 43% migrate to other disciplines.”