A Measure of College Student Persistence in the Sciences (PITS)

This paper validates and establishes the predictive ability of the Persistence in the Sciences, or PITS, survey to measure persistence in undergraduates participating in course-based research experiences.

• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  CBE - Life Sciences Education

• Publication date

  2016-12-21

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Education, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1187/CBE.15-09-0185PMID 27810869PMCID 5132351
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

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