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http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/09/07/survey_looks_at_college_students_and_parents_attitudes_toward_stem_subjects


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Why They Chose STEM
September 7, 2011

Most college students studying for degrees in science, technology, engineering or math make the decision to do so in high school or before -- but only 20 percent say they feel that their education before college prepared them "extremely well" for those fields, according to a survey released today by Microsoft and polling company Harris Interactive.

The survey, which asked college students pursing STEM degrees and the parents of K-12 students about attitudes toward STEM education, also found that male and female students enter the fields for different reasons: females are more likely to want to make a difference, while males are more likely to say they've always enjoyed games, toys or clubs focused on the hard sciences.<snip>
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More information about why students choose to pursue STEM degrees in college.




Len Adams
Health Promotion Specialist
Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department
3629 South D Street
Tacoma, WA 98418

253-798-6129


"Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule."   -  Stephen King, ["Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully - in Ten Minutes", 1988]


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