期刊名称：Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association
出版年度：2015
语种：English
出版社：The Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA)
摘要：The University of Saskatchewan, similar to many engineering colleges, would like to improve student retention. With that in mind, a literature review was undertaken to summarize current peer reviewed literature related to engineering student retention and attrition in an attempt to better understand the potential structural causes, processes, and student characteristics that may contribute to student success or attrition. Through a systematic search of several major databases using the keywords “engineering and attrition or retention,” and after narrowing the scope to peer reviewed articles written between 2005 and the present, each article’s abstract was read and evaluated. Forty-five papers were deemed to be highly relevant, and were thus included in the literature review. Preliminary trends that have emerged in this review are: the potential causes of high attrition rates in engineering schools, various methods that have been used to determine the causes of attrition, interventions that have been implemented and stories of their success/failure, and attributes that have been found to correlate with student attrition or success. This paper is an attempt to organize this body of research into a singular source that can be referenced by engineering educators or researchers who wish to increase student retention and improve the educational experience of their students.
