Conference Session

An Examination of Methods to Enhance Transfer Student Enrollment, Retenion, Persistence, and Outcomes

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David B. Knight, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Inger M. Bergom, University of Michigan; Brian A. Burt, University of Michigan; Lisa R. Lattuca, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

construct validity (i.e., whether items/response options werecomprehendible and appropriate), the instrument was pilot tested prior to sending it to sampleinstitutions.Data for this paper were collected via three different survey instruments: 1) a survey of pre-engineering students enrolled in community colleges; 2) a survey of currently enrolledengineering seniors and “super-seniors” in their fifth year of undergraduate study; and 3) asurvey of engineering graduates surveyed three years after earning their bachelor’s degrees.This analysis focuses on students’ self-reported pre-college characteristics, which tend to havehigh validity because they are less susceptible to differences in survey question interpretationthan other kinds of self-report