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EducationHigher EducationScience EducationPedagogyStem EducationEngineering EducationScience-technology-society RelationshipsStudent MobilityStudent PersistenceEngineering PipelineScience PipelineStem Student Persistence
In this paper, we explore three major questions: (1) What is the “flow” or attrition rate of STEM students along the high school to career pathway? (2) How does this flow and this attrition rate change from earlier cohorts to current cohorts? (3) What are the changes in quality of STEM students who persist through the STEM pathway?