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academic record to determine eligibility, it could be confirmed that they were in good
standing, were enrolled in the final required coursework on their degree plan, and would
graduate so long as they successfully passed their fall courses. It should be noted that
not all of the participants necessarily began college at the same time; it is quite common
at this university, especially among math and science majors, for students to take longer
than four years to complete a bachelor's degree. However, because the emphasis of
the study is on the experiences of the freshman year in relation to students' persistence
to graduation, rather than length of time to graduation, the number of intervening years
is irrelevant in this context.
Participants
Information about the 10 participants is given in Table 1 on the next page,
including their name, major, first-year mathematics and science GPA, demographic
data, parents' level of college education, age at the start of their degree, and their
timeframe to graduation.
As hoped, the first 10 volunteers represented a reasonable mix of students and
gave informative, meaningful feedback, so no additional students were needed. The
names provided in Table 1 and used hereafter are the pseudonyms assigned to each
participant. In terms of major distribution, although mathematics was one of the largest
groups in the overall population, a somewhat disproportionally large number of math
majors were represented here. However, given that half of the participants were still
science majors, and that four out of five possible majors were present, it was still a good
assortment. The only missing major was geology, but geology was a very small group in
the overall population, so this was unsurprising. Each participant's GPA was calculated44
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Gonzales, Erin E. Persistence Patterns of Mathematics and Science Majors: A Profile of Highly Motivated Freshmen, dissertation, August 2016; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc862847/m1/53/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .