The role of peers and grades in determining major persistence in the sciences

By Ben Ost. 2010

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Gender segregation in higher education: an empirical test of seven explanations (2019, unknown): “We are aware of some case studies reporting that students are more likely to choose a given field if their classmates do the same (De Giorgi et al. 2010; Ost 2010), but we could not find any empirical test of the explanatory contribution of peer effects to GSHE.”
Patterns of Gendered Performance Differences in Large Introductory Courses at Five Research Universities (2017, background): “Student performance in a course, particularly performance relative to that in other courses, plays an important role in shaping major and career choices (Ost, 2010).”
Shifting College Majors in Response to Advanced Placement Exam Scores (2017, unknown): “For instance, peers (Ost 2010), early exposure to a subject via required coursework (Fricke, Grogger, and Steinmayr 2015), and the final grade achieved by a student in an introductory course (Goldin 2015) can also have strong influence on a student’s subsequent course of study.”
STEM Attrition: College Students' Paths into and out of STEM Fields. Statistical Analysis Report. NCES 2014-001. (2013, background): “2007); limited exposure to STEM coursework in the first 2 years (Bettinger 2010); and poor performance in STEM courses, especially relative to performance in non-STEM courses (Ost 2010; Rask 2010; Seymour and Hewitt 1997; Stinebrickner and Stinebrickner 2011).”
Why Are Some STEM Fields More Gender Balanced Than Others? (2017, unknown): “Very few papers have compared STEM fields to one another (for exceptions see Cohoon, 2002; Deemer et al., 2014; Leslie et al., 2015; Milkman et al., 2015; Ost, 2010).”
Student Evaluations of Teaching Encourages Poor Teaching and Contributes to Grade Inflation: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis (2020, background): “com) but not in RMP studies of Reid (2010) and Stuber et al. (2009). Three large multisection studies based on institutional SETs also reported gender differences favoring men (Boring, 2017; Hamermesh & Parker, 2005; Mengel et al., 2019). Using the dataset of Boring et al. (2016) described earlier, ”