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Retaining Students in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Majors

Journal of College Science Teaching—May/June 2013

This article presents results relating undergraduate student retention in STEM majors to the use of Peer Instruction (PI) in an introductory physics course at a highly selective research institution. The authors compare the percentages of students who switch out of a STEM major after taking a physics course taught using traditional lectures only or one taught using PI, finding that nearly twice the percentage of students switch after the lecture-based course.

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