Geoscience Currents 59 quantifies students' attitudes toward pursuing geoscience

In continuation of the Geoscience Academic Provenance research series conducted by Houlton (Geoscience Currents 45-48, and 57-58), Geoscience Currents 59 presents quantitative data collected from participants through a Likert-based survey. Participants were asked to rate their feelings toward geoscience on a scale from 1 to 7. The aggregated responses illuminated the changes over time in the students' attitudes toward pursuing geoscience.

A copy of Geoscience Currents 59 can be found online and downloaded from http://www.agiweb.org/workforce/currents.html.

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