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We separated our analysis by year in the program in order to focus on when in the
program changes occurred.
CHANGE IN SELF-CONFIDENCE BY YEAR IN PROGRAM AND GENDER
Looking first at the change in self-confidence that engineering is the right major, we
can see that during the first year in the program, more students increase their confidence
that engineering is the right major for them than decrease their confidence, and this is true
for both males and females (Figures IID-6 and IID-7). We also see that a higher
proportion of first-year female students increase their self-confidence than do male
students, and a smaller proportion of first-year female students go down in self-
confidence compared to males.
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