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    This document discusses a study examining gender differences in engineering student attrition rates through the lens of identity development theory. The study tested four hypotheses: 1) Female students were more likely to consider dropping out if dissatisfied with academic success, 2) Goal commitment influences institutional integration, 3) Academic and social integration influence attrition, and 4) Identity measures correlate with integration and predict attrition. Key findings include that women rated the quality of faculty interactions lower, identification and prominence predicted attrition for both genders, and identification negated the gender difference in attrition rates.

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    This document discusses a study examining gender differences in engineering student attrition rates through the lens of identity development theory. The study tested four hypotheses: 1) Female students were more likely to consider dropping out if dissatisfied with academic success, 2) Goal commitment influences institutional integration, 3) Academic and social integration influence attrition, and 4) Identity measures correlate with integration and predict attrition. Key findings include that women rated the quality of faculty interactions lower, identification and prominence predicted attrition for both genders, and identification negated the gender difference in attrition rates.

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    This document discusses a study examining gender differences in engineering student attrition rates through the lens of identity development theory. The study tested four hypotheses: 1) Female students were more likely to consider dropping out if dissatisfied with academic success, 2) Goal commitment influences institutional integration, 3) Academic and social integration influence attrition, and 4) Identity measures correlate with integration and predict attrition. Key findings include that women rated the quality of faculty interactions lower, identification and prominence predicted attrition for both genders, and identification negated the gender difference in attrition rates.

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    Gender and Engineering

    Identity Development
    among Undergraduate
    Majors
    Angie Andriot
    Department of Sociology
    Purdue University
    STEM
    Attrition
    ’ s t he o r y
    Ti n t o
    of
    Attrition
    Normative Fatalism
    Control +

    Egoism Altruism
    Equilibrium
    - +

    Societal
    Integration

    Anomie
    -
    Academic
    Integration Formal

    -
    +
    Informal
    - + Retention + - Formal

    + Social
    - Integration

    Informal
    Identity
    • Likelihood of
    Salience enactment
    • Based on commitment

    • Centrality
    Prominence • Importance

    • Internalized possible
    selves
    Identification • Anticipatory identity
    salience
    Hypothesis #1:
    Female students were more likely
    to consider dropping
    engineering if they were
    dissatisfied with their success
    within the academic
    environment.
    Hypothesis #2:
    Partial support was found for the hypothesis that
    goal commitment influences institutional
    integration.

    HOWEVER
    Women are more integrated than men on every
    measure but one:

    Women rate the quality of their interactions with


    faculty lower
    Hypothesis #3:
    (Informal) Academic and social
    integration influence attrition.

    But this does not explain the


    gender difference in attrition.
    Hypothesis #4:
    1. Participation in activities correlates
    with identification
    2. Number of organizations
    correlates with prominence
    3. Satisfaction with school correlates
    with all three identity measures
    4. Faculty interactions correlates with
    identification and prominence
    Academic Integration
    Hypothesis #4:
    1. Quality of interactions
    correlates with prominence and
    salience
    2. Frequency of activities
    correlates with identification
    and salience

    Social Integration
    Hypothesis #4:
    Identification and prominence, but
    not salience, predict attrition

    Identification negates the gender


    difference in attrition
    Attrition

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