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First Draft Feedback #2

Closed ye-pang closed 7 years ago

ye-pang commented 7 years ago

Gist: From what i read, I think the idea is to use university records, specifically gender, demographics, and "course paths" to better understand what causes gender disparity in obtaining STEM degrees and how to mitigate it.

Kept: i like your idea to start with intended STEM major students. I also like your idea to include demographics along with the gender variable to include cultural effect.

Cut: Not sure, but think the point about the study being not universal and is done at university can be addressed by normalizing the course names into standardized subject areas. Either way, it can be executed to be highly relevant for educators.

Rearranged: Along with the idea to start with STEM majors, it might also be helpful to set a starting condition that the number of males and females who intended to study STEM is comparable and any gender disparity is not due to unequal sampling size.

Added:

  1. It might be relevant to see what degrees those who deviated from STEM eventually got
  2. Might also be illuminating to propose a transitional probability or a survival analysis on the course path to compare the gender effect on different stages of STEM degree success.

Other Comments:

  1. I think in the U.S., course path to obtain a degree is predetermined by the issuing department, are you then interested in where female students drift off from the intended path to a STEM degree?
  2. Is course path or are course difficulty and pass % that determine STEM degree success?
sfswift commented 7 years ago

Thanks for the feedback Kevin! I hope to include your suggestion under Other comments (#2). Ideally, I'd be able to get course evaluations and grades, but that might be more of a next step for now. And for #1, yes, seeing where females drift (if they do) would be a goal of this project. I do want to add some information about intended major v degree awarded to help address your point under Rearranged.