Talking About Leaving Revisited: Exploring Current Patterns of Persistence in the Sciences

The purpose of this sub-contract is to provide resources for Co-Principal Investigator Joseph J. Ferrare (Wisconsin Center for Education Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison) to continue his involvement with the project as he transitions from his current research position to a tenure track faculty position in the Department of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation in the College of Education at the University of Kentucky. Co-PI Ferrare currently holds a 75% appointment on the Talking About Leaving Revisited (TALR) project and serves as the Study Leader for the National & Institutional Study and the Gateway Course-Taking Study. In this capacity he is currently responsible for developing the research design and methodology and overseeing all aspects of data collection, analysis and reporting for these two component studies of TALR.