| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w19165 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 19165 |
| A Major in Science? Initial Beliefs and Final Outcomes for College Major and Dropout | |
| Ralph Stinebrickner; Todd R. Stinebrickner | |
| 发表日期 | 2013-06-28 |
| 出版年 | 2013 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Taking advantage of unique longitudinal data, we provide the first characterization of what college students believe at the time of entrance about their final major, relate these beliefs to actual major outcomes, and, provide an understanding of why students hold the initial beliefs about majors that they do. The data collection and analysis are based directly on a conceptual model in which a student's final major is best viewed as the end result of a learning process. We find that students enter school quite optimistic/interested about obtaining a science degree, but that relatively few students end up graduating with a science degree. The substantial overoptimism about completing a degree in science can be attributed largely to students beginning school with misperceptions about their ability to perform well academically in science. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Labor Economics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w19165 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/576840 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Ralph Stinebrickner,Todd R. Stinebrickner. A Major in Science? Initial Beliefs and Final Outcomes for College Major and Dropout. 2013. |
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