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Hall, Cathy W.; Kauffmann, Paul J.; Wuensch, Karl L.; Swart, William E.; DeUrquidi, Karen A.; Griffin, O. Hayden; Duncan, C. Steve – Journal of Engineering Education, 2015
Background: Engineering programs have high attrition rates, and once in college, students are unlikely to migrate to engineering from other majors. Factors that influence retention must be assessed. Purpose: This study investigated the relationships of aptitude and personality traits in predicting retention for persisting students, those leaving…
Descriptors: College Students, Academic Aptitude, Personality Traits, School Holding Power
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Martin, John Levi; Fuller, Sylvia – Social Psychology Quarterly, 2004
Using network data from 40 groups, we examine the effect of social context on the gendering of power relations. By modeling reported data on power relations as the result of a stochastic response process that may be gendered, we examine how this gendering is related to group-level contextual factors. We find that much of what appears to be a…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Females, Social Environment, Gender Differences