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Direct linkDavid Mickey-Pabello – Research in Higher Education, 2024
The study investigates a tension between affirmative action scholars who hypothesize that affirmative action bans would increase underrepresented minority students' STEM college completions and scholars who have empirically estimated declines. It also questions results that that find no existence of a STEM penalty (compared to non-STEM) caused by…
Descriptors: College Students, Minority Group Students, STEM Education, Affirmative Action
Smyth, Frederick L.; McArdle, John J. – Research in Higher Education, 2004
Using Bowen and Bok's data from 23 selective colleges, we fit multilevel logit models to test two hypotheses with implications for affirmative action and group differences in attainment of science, math, or engineering (SME) degrees. Hypothesis 1, that differences in precollege academic preparation will explain later SME graduation disparities,…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Gender Differences, Science Education, Graduation Rate
