Biswas, P., & Lin, R. (2013, June), Improve Retention Rate and Performance of Students in STEM Field Using a Virtual Teaching Assistant System  Paper presented at 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia. 10.18260/1-2--19724

\bibitem{asee_peer_19724}
  Biswas, P., \& Lin, R. (2013, June), \emph{Improve Retention Rate and Performance of Students in STEM Field Using a Virtual Teaching Assistant System}
  Paper presented at 2013 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia.
  10.18260/1-2--19724

Pablo Biswas and Runchang Lin.  "Improve Retention Rate and Performance of Students in STEM Field Using a Virtual Teaching Assistant System".  2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia, 2013, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2013.  https://peer.asee.org/19724 Internet.  02 Jan, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_19724}
  Pablo Biswas and Runchang Lin.
  "Improve Retention Rate and Performance of Students in STEM Field Using a Virtual Teaching Assistant System".
  \emph{2013 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia, 2013, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2013.
  https://peer.asee.org/19724 Internet.  02 Jan, 2025

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author = "Pablo Biswas and Runchang Lin"
title = "Improve Retention Rate and Performance of Students in STEM Field Using a Virtual Teaching Assistant System"
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AB  -    IMPROVE RETENTION RATE AND PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS IN STEM FIELD USING A VIRTUAL                               TEACHING ASSISTANT SYSTEM This research focuses on improving the students’ performance in class and retention rate in STEM field of  a  Hispanic  serving  institution  by  implementing  a  Virtual  Teaching  Assistant  System  (ViTAS)  during their initial stages in the university lives. The ViTAS system is a digital repository where instructor posts the  homework  assignments  and  their  due  dates  for  his/her  respective  classes.  Similarly,  the  students submit  their  work based on the respective assignments through ViTAS system. After  the  due date the instructors posts the standard solution and assign peers’ work to each students for grading anonymously by using ViTAS system module. These methods are used to create a learning environment outside the lecture period and to engage the students in learning how to evaluate others/their works. Using these exercises, the students learn to correct their mistakes and observe different solution techniques of the problems assigned. The previous research shows that in the STEM field of a Hispanic serving institution, student drop rate is very high during initial stages. After using ViTAS, the students drop rate is reduced significantly.  In  this  research,  the  data  of  the  student  success  rate  are  collected,  statistically  analyzed and presented with the hypothesis that the more students involve themselves in learning outside of the lecture period, the more improvement in the retention rate and performance of the students are. 
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