{"product_id":"talking-about-leaving-why-undergraduates-leave-the-sciences-9780813366425","title":"Talking About Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave The Sciences","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis intriguing book explores the reasons that lead undergraduates of above-average ability to switch from science  mathematics  and engineering majors into nonscience majors. Based on a three-year  seven-campus study  the volume takes up the ongoing national debate about the quality of undergraduate education in these fields  offering explanations for net losses of students to non-science majors. Data show that approximately 40 percent of undergraduate students leave engineering programs  50 percent leave the physical and biological sciences  and 60 percent leave mathematics. Concern about this waste of talent is heightened because these losses occur among the most highly qualified college entrants and are disproportionately greater among women and students of color  despite a serious national effort to improve their recruitment and retention. The authors findings  culled from over 600 hours of ethnographic interviews and focus group discussions with undergraduates  explain the intended and unintended consequences of some traditional teaching practices and attitudes. Talking about Leaving is richly illustrated with students accounts of their own experiences in the sciences. This is a landmark study-an essential source book for all those concerned with changing the ways that we teach science  mathematics  and engineering education  and with opening these fields to a more diverse student body.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647578562613,"sku":"ByrdShop_0813366429","price":100.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780813366425.jpg?v=1781693853","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/talking-about-leaving-why-undergraduates-leave-the-sciences-9780813366425","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}