Assessing college student interest in math and/or computer science in a cross- national sample using classification and regression trees

The purpose of this exploratory study was to assess the relative importance of a number of variables in predicting students’ interest in math and/or computer science. Classification and regression trees (CART) were employed in the analysis of survey data collected from 276 college students enrolled in two U.S. and Greek universities. The results revealed that American students reporting high levels of barrier coping self-efficacy tended to show...