Importance of alternative pathways to STEM through analysis of longitudinal student dataset

• Main Authors: Issa W. AlHmoud (Author), Samin Poudel (Author), Sulochana Deshmukh (Author), Caroline S. Booth (Author), Greg Monty (Author), Marwan Bikdash (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Springer, 2024-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Using a longitudinal national educational dataset, data science methods were applied to explain students' educational trajectories and determine the most predictive variables in STEM degree attainment. Challenging the notion of the STEM pipeline, an Alternative Pathways to STEM (APS) m...