JoinRetaining Students in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Majors
This article presents results relating undergraduate student retention in STEM majors to the use of Peer Instruction (PI) in an introductory physics course at a highly selective research institution. The authors compare the percentages of students who switch out of a STEM major after taking a physics course taught using traditional lectures only or one taught using PI, finding that nearly twice the percentage of students switch after the lecture-based course.