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Individual Achievement, Person-Major Fit, or Social Expectations: Why Do Students Switch Majors in German Higher Education?
Research in Higher Education ( IF 2.615 ) Pub Date : 2021-07-14 , DOI: 10.1007/s11162-021-09650-y
Jasmin Meyer 1 , Susanne Strauss 1 , Kathrin Leuze 2
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While a large body of research addresses both subject choice and student dropout in higher education, much less is known about switching the initially chosen major. Therefore, we ask why students switch their major in higher education and analyse this for the case of Germany, taking the timing and the degree of such switches (within and across subject groups) into account. Based on the extended rational choice framework, we identify three aspects that might explain switching majors: individual achievement in secondary education, a (mis)match between individual occupational interests and the content of studies and parental and peer judgement regarding the initial subject choice. We test the derived hypotheses by applying logistic regression models to representative data from the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), Starting Cohort 5. Our results indicate that the analysed aspects of individual achievement, person-major fit and social expectations affect switching majors, but their influence varies according to the degree and timing of the switch. While high-achieving students are more likely to switch majors, especially across disciplines and at a later stage in their studies, a mismatch in occupational interests mainly affects switching majors across broad subject groups. Finally, disapproval of the initial subject choice by parents and peers matters most for switches during the first two semesters and across academic disciplines.



中文翻译:

个人成就、人与人的契合度或社会期望:为什么学生会在德国高等教育中转专业?

虽然大量研究涉及高等教育中的学科选择和学生辍学,但对转换最初选择的专业知之甚少。因此,我们询问学生为何转学高等教育专业,并以德国为例进行分析,同时考虑这种转学的时间和程度(学科组内和学科组之间)。基于扩展的理性选择框架,我们确定了可以解释转换专业的三个方面:中学教育中的个人成就、个人职业兴趣与学习内容之间的(不)匹配以及父母和同伴对初始学科选择的判断。我们通过将逻辑回归模型应用于来自德国国家教育小组研究 (NEPS) 的起始队列 5 的代表性数据来检验推导出的假设。我们的研究结果表明,个人成就、人与专业的契合度和社会期望等方面的分析会影响转专业,但其影响因转专业的程度和时间而异。虽然成绩优异的学生更有可能转专业,尤其是跨学科和在学习后期,职业兴趣的不匹配主要影响跨学科群的转专业。最后,父母和同伴对最初的学科选择的反对对于前两个学期和跨学科的转换最重要。虽然成绩优异的学生更有可能转专业,尤其是跨学科和在学习后期,职业兴趣的不匹配主要影响跨学科群的转专业。最后,父母和同伴对最初的学科选择的反对对于前两个学期和跨学科的转换最重要。虽然成绩优异的学生更有可能转专业,尤其是跨学科和在学习后期,职业兴趣的不匹配主要影响跨学科群的转专业。最后,家长和同伴对最初的学科选择的反对对于前两个学期和跨学科的转换最为重要。

更新日期:2021-07-14
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