Talking about Leaving Revisited: Learning Series

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Talking about Leaving Revisited (TALR) discusses findings from a five-year study that explores the extent, nature, and contributory causes of field-switching both from and among STEM majors, and what enables persistence to graduation. The book reflects on what has and has not changed in the past three decades, since publication of Talking about Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave the Sciences. The authors of each chapter collaborate to address key questions, drawing on findings from each related study source: national and institutional data, interviews with faculty and students, structured observations and student assessments of teaching methods in STEM gateway courses. Pitched to a wide audience, engaging in style, and richly illustrated in the interviewees’ own words, this book affords the most comprehensive explanatory account to date of persistence, relocation and loss in undergraduate sciences.

TALR learning series components:

• five prerecorded webinars led by Anne-Barrie Hunter, Elaine Seymour, and their colleagues (includes access to the videos, slides, discussion questions, and written responses to questions asked during live recording of each webinar)
• a prerecorded community convening with introductory remarks by Elaine Seymour, a panel discussion with Drs. Muriel Poston, Shirley Malcom, and Carl Wieman, and summaries of the 10 breakout discussions focused on the implications of TALR

TALR learning series goals:

• Comprehensively address the causes of loss from undergraduate STEM majors―an issue of ongoing national concern
• Present critical research relevant for nationwide STEM education reform efforts
• Explore the reasons why talented undergraduates abandon STEM majors
• Dispel popular causal myths about why students choose to leave STEM majors