Who leaves and when do they go? Retention and attrition in engineering education

Godfrey, Elizabeth; Aubrey, Tim; Crosthwaite, Caroline; King, Robin

doi:10.1109/fie.2010.5673625

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“…In order to examine the activity of EyeWire, similar to previous studies of citizen science project analysis [27], we use player churn and cohort analysis [19] which involves using time window sampling techniques in order to examine the churn of players within a given time frame. The cohort analysis examines monthly cohorts of players based on their first chat and game entry, and provides a measure of sustained activity.…”

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“…As shown in Figure 4, the analysis of chat and gaming account duration reveals that for gaming activity, there are many players which have a short gaming duration, whereas players chat for longer periods of time. In order to examine the retention of players within the EyeWire platform in greater depth, we used a cohort analysis method as described by [18,19]. We apply this approach to obtain a 'chat' and 'gaming' cohort, which corresponds to the players which have had at least one recorded activity in a given month.…”

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Proceedings of the ACM Web Science Conference

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Citizen science is changing the process of scientific knowledge discovery. Successful projects rely on an active and able collection of volunteers. In order to attract, and sustain citizen scientists, designers are faced with the task of transforming complex scientific tasks into something accessible, interesting, and hopefully, engaging. In this paper, we examine the citizen science game EyeWire. Our analysis draws up a dataset of over 4,000,000 completed game and 885,000 chat entries, made by over 90,000 players. The analysis provides a detailed understanding of how features of the system facilitate player interaction and communication alongside completing the gamified scientific task. Based on the analysis we describe a set of behavioural characteristics which identify different types of players within the EyeWire platform.

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“…Various studies have aimed to categorise the drop-outs and to produce understanding of the reasons which drive students to drop out from courses [5]. However, it is even more critical to decrease the number of students dropping out from their studies.…”

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Promoting positive start of electrical engineering studies — A teacher's perspective

Kujala

Lehtovuori

Honkala

2014

2014 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE) Proceedings

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The experiences from the first year of studies play a major role in determining the progress of later studies. Engaging study culture, requiring active participation in classes and active support from the teaching staff, can facilitate overcoming obstacles in the studies. In practice, the teacher has a key role in affecting the mindsets of the students.Implementing assessment as a continuous process permits collecting real-time information on students' performance during the course, which enables to monitor, and more importantly, to influence the students' behaviour and decrease the number of students dropping out from their studies.The students' progress was monitored in two big first-year courses (170-300 seats) on physics and circuit analysis starting from the first weeks of the studies. The goal was to recognise and to affect the potential drop-out candidates and support them to continue working towards completing their courses with the teacher's own actions and pedagogical decisions. Experiences gained during this project provide insight on appropriate actions in planning of teaching to facilitate students' success in studies.

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Gender differences in the Australian undergraduate STEM student experience: a systematic review

Fisher

Thompson

Brookes

2020

Higher Education Research & Development

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Who leaves and when do they go? Retention and attrition in engineering education

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Promoting positive start of electrical engineering studies — A teacher's perspective

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