URM students were more likely than non-URM leavers to report leaving due to disenchantment rather than attraction¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r2 · q3 · i1 small
Currency · newest study 2021 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i1 Among students who left biomedical fields, URM status predicted reporting disenchantment rather than attraction as the reason (OR = 1.66). → Rosenzweig 2021

Evidence¶

Rosenzweig 2021¶

Rosenzweig, E. Q., Harackiewicz, J. M., Hecht, C. A., Priniski, S. J., Canning, E. A., Tibbetts, Y., Asher, M. W., & Hyde, J. S. (2021). College Students’ Reasons for Leaving Biomedical Fields: Disenchantment with Biomedicine or Attraction to Other Fields? Journal of Educational Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000456

q3 · i1 · associational · r2

Contrast-code logistic regression comparing leavers coded for disenchantment (+1) versus attraction (−1), with the 18 both-reasons students included in the attraction group. The article reports "OR = 1.66" as the only significant difference.

"There was one significant difference between students who left due to disenchantment versus attraction reasons: URM students were more likely to report leaving due to disenchantment than attraction, b = 0.51, z = 2.03, p = .04, OR = 1.66."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Among biomedical leavers, 62.5% described leaving only in terms of disenchantment while 25.2% described only attraction and 12.2% both equally — related
• URM students left biomedical fields at higher rates than majority students, an effect explained in part by their lower biology course grades — related