Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Students' network integration as a predictor of persistence in
  introductory physics courses   Increasing student retention (successfully finishing a particular course) and
persistence (continuing through a sequence of courses or the major area of
study) is currently a major challenge for universities. While students'
academic and social integration into an institution seems to be vital for
student retention, research into the effect of interpersonal interactions is
rare. We use network analysis as an approach to investigate academic and social
experiences of students in the classroom. In particular, centrality measures
identify patterns of interaction that contribute to integration into the
university. Using these measures, we analyze how position within a social
network in a Modeling Instruction (MI) course -- an introductory physics course
that strongly emphasizes interactive learning -- predicts their persistence in
taking a subsequent physics course. Students with higher centrality at the end
of the first semester of MI are more likely to enroll in a second semester of
MI. Moreover, we found that chances of successfully predicting individual
student's persistence based on centrality measures are fairly high -- up to
$75\%$, making the centrality a good predictor of persistence. These findings
suggest that increasing student social integration may help in improving
persistence in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields.

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The categories of this paper are: eess
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The categories of this paper are: q-alg
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The categories of this paper are: nlin
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The categories of this paper are: stat
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The categories of this paper are: solv-int
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ex
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The categories of this paper are: chao-dyn
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The categories of this paper are: cond-mat
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The categories of this paper are: cmp-lg
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The categories of this paper are: plasm-ph
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The categories of this paper are: funct-an
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The categories of this paper are: alg-geom
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The categories of this paper are: q-bio
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The categories of this paper are: nucl-ex
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The categories of this paper are: atom-ph
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The categories of this paper are: patt-sol