1654 - Attitudinal and Motivational Factors in Graduate Students : Cross-sections and Evolution

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AAPT WM21 (2021)

Conferences

AAPT WM21 A2.6 Lecture/Classroom (2021)

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Online

Summary

For the past four years, researchers at OSU have been collecting attitudinal and motivation data from physics graduate students at several universities across the Midwest The data collected pertain...

For the past four years, researchers at OSU have been collecting attitudinal and motivation data from physics graduate students at several universities across the Midwest The data collected pertain to factors associated with retention at the undergraduate level in STEM, but most of these factors have not previously be studied at the graduate level. These factors include sense of belonging, physics identity, self-efficacy, and cost, among others. In this talk, we will present a brief snapshot of some of these factors for students from different institutions, but at a single time point. We will also look at a longitudinal picture of how these factors tend to change as students progress toward a Ph. D.

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