IN-4-STEM identifies the social and academic challenges students face — based on surveys and focus groups with the students themselves. This toolkit helps you recognise those challenges and offers practical interventions to tackle them.
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IN-4-STEM Challenges
What challenges do students experience?
Surveys and sessions have been used to identify the main challenges faced by students. These have been divided into two main categories: social and academic.
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The challenges during transition were identified, grouped in themes and subthemes across all participants in focus groups. This matrix shows challenges in social and academic integration that were most highly ranked as problematic by each minority group.
The selected interventions were mapped to the challenges identified among first-year students in the In-4-STEM project, which were categorized under the domains of academic and social integration.
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What can you do?
Do you recognise any of these challenges? Our research shows these are among the most common struggles first-year STEM students face.
Take a look at the interventions that could help. If you’d like to know more, don’t hesitate to join one of the upcoming In-4-STEM events, or join our community.