Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph A. Raelin, Northeastern University; Margaret B. Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology ; Jerry Carl Hamann, University of Wyoming; Rachelle Reisberg, Northeastern University; David L. Whitman P.E., University of Wyoming; Leslie K. Pendleton, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

enrolled at four major universities: NortheasternUniversity, Rochester Institute of Technology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and StateUniversity, and the University of Wyoming. It examines the effect of demographiccharacteristics, cooperative education, contextual support, and three dimensions of self-efficacyand their change over time on retention. It is based on a pathways model that links contextualsupport and cooperative education and other forms of student work experience to self-efficacy asa basis for retention in college and in the engineering major. As a longitudinal study, itincorporates measures at three time periods during the students’ academic experience: theirsecond, third, and fourth years.The original data pool constituted all