Tag Archive: Undergraduate Students
In this infographic, we compared students’ involvement in teaching and mentoring activities by their reported gender identity. Results indicate statistical differences between groups at the p ≤ .05 level.
CERP presents results on what aspects of a career undergraduate students and graduate students consider most important.
Data from the CRA Data Buddies Survey (DBS) 2019, 2020, and 2021, indicates that students interacted with their classmates outside of the lectures less frequently after the COVID pandemic and the change was more drastic for students who were earlier on in their academic program.
As prospective students consider postsecondary degree programs, a common question that emerges is how to pay for that program. What are the more common funding sources that students ultimately use? CERP investigated how students at different degree types pay for their program, as reported in late 2021.
CRA’s Data Buddies Survey 2021 data indicate that 16% of undergraduates in computing fields have been involved in K-12 outreach during their degree program. Participation rates across different racial and ethnic groups varied. Within racial/ethnic groups, participation rates also varied as a function of gender identity.
Analysis suggests that job prospects weigh heavily on students’ decision to skip or delay graduate education. Further, while the importance of some of the reasons remain the same across students at different stages of their degree program, others vary in terms of their salience depending on how close students are to graduating.
The current analysis examines whether exposure to programming languages varies among different populations that are underrepresented in computing, and whether belonging to multiple underrepresented populations is associated with programming experience. Results show that students from multiple underrepresented populations in computing are less likely to have learned a programming language than their peers.
For undergraduates who entered their current program in 2020, over half reported learning a new programming language prior to their program. This trend has steadily increased over the last 5 years of incoming undergraduates, yet a persistent difference remains for students who are from populations underrepresented in computing.
From 2013 to 2020, CERP has collected approximately 93,000 total responses between both undergraduates and graduates, and 41,000 (44%) of these respondents are part of CERP’s longitudinal cohorts. Join Data Buddies this year by November 1, 2021.
Among senior undergraduates who did not apply to graduate school in their last year, their top three reasons for not doing so related to a job, needing the break, or concerns about finances. However, 72% were “quite a bit” or “extremely” likely to apply in the future.
Using CRA Data Buddies Survey data, this analysis presents changes in undergraduate students’ highest degree intentions over the course of a year. Students who participated in an REU during that year showed an interest in pursuing a higher-level academic degree than those who did not participate in an REU.
