What is it about?
There is a disparity in the number of underrepresented minorities currently hold STEM degrees or in STEM careers. This study shows that undergraduate student motivation for STEM improves when the experience research.
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Why is it important?
Our findings show that student perception to STEM fields are changing. To improve retention of underrepresented minorities, we must change our strategies so that students can have an equal opportunity to experience STEM research.
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We believe that the next generation of students perceive their education differently in comparison to prior students and requires us to align our curriculum to better meet their needs. This research has provided us with evidence to change our curriculum to focus more on providing mandatory and optional research experiences to better educate students on STEM careers paths and postgraduate education, with the ultimate goal of increasing the retention of our graduates in STEM fields. We hope the lessons we learned may be applied to other institutions across the nation.
Kinning Poon
SUNY College at Old Westbury
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This page is a summary of: Undergraduate Student Motivation in Research, Science, and Post-Bachelor Education, July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3569951.3597578.
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