Social Identity, Campus Culture, and STEM Persistence at Selective Colleges and Universities

• In Event: 54.018 - Promising Scholarship in Education: Dissertation Fellows and Their Research

Abstract

Decades of scholarship have examined peer groups as an explanation for persistent achievement gaps in education. Peer groups affect a variety of academic outcomes, from students’ attitudes about schooling, to their educational aspirations, to their grades. However, less is known about how academic peer groups are initially formed, and the ways in which the group formation process may reproduce disparities in academic achievement. Additionally, our understanding of peer group dynamics in academic settings within higher education is limited.

Author

• Anthony Johnson, Northwestern University