Why Transfer Students Fail to Graduate with a STEM Degree: A Latent Class Analysis of STEM Dropouts

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Abstract

Employing longitudinal transcript analysis and latent class analysis (LCA), this proposed research study focuses primarily on community college transfer students who intended to pursue STEM but failed to persist in or graduate from a STEM baccalaureate degree program at a 4-year research university.

Author

• Yi (Leaf) Zhang, University of Texas at Arlington