Purposeful Pairings: Roommate Selection Impact on STEM Majors (Poster 35)

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Sixteen
  In Poster Session: Current Research in Learning Environments

Abstract

Working to retain undergraduate STEM students is clearly an undertaking institutions and policy makers who examine student success must prioritize. While many policies and practices have been researched to promote STEM retention, one area that lends itself to study is that of roommate pairings and the home learning environment. This explanatory mixed methods study was predicated upon academic performance and housing situation of 47,878 students, then upon case studies of nine focal students. This study found that intentional roommate pairing may lead to increased academic success and retention of STEM students may lead to students’ success in quantifiable and qualitative ways.

Authors

• Amber Wagnon, Stephen F. Austin State University
  Presenting Author

• Brian Church, Stephen F. Austin State University
  Presenting Author

• Keith Hubbard, Stephen F. Austin State University
  Presenting Author