Interests & Recruitment in Science:

The aim of WP6 is to expose the reasons students have for dropping/opting out of STM higher education programmes.

Focus will be on gender differences and if and how these are related to the institutional and instructional patterns within STM higher education, e.g. the relation between the students‟ prior knowledge and educational experiences, their priorities connected to the STM choice, their expectations to their STM study, their experience of the STM programme and the instructional patterns, etc. In addition to making a literature review, WP6 will conduct a quantitative study within the countries involved in IRIS and a qualitative study in Denmark. The quantitative study will follow drop-outs/opt-outs within a five-year period from ten selected STM programs in the IRIS consortium countries, focusing on gender differences.

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