PROCEEDINGS OF THE 20TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
2017
San Diego, California
Career decision making strategies of calculus and developmental mathematics students
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Abstract: Students who have persisted in mathematics coursework long enough to be presentin calculus or who enter mathematics at the level of calculus would be expected have morerobust notions concerning their career choices than those who enter developmentalmathematics. In the current work, we give a preliminary comparison of data generated by acareer decision making survey administered to students in a developmental mathematicscourse and to students in a first semester calculus course at a large research university duringthe fall 2015 semester. We consider some initial results for students who switch majors after asemester of mathematics coursework.Keywords: