Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Student perceptions of the value of out-of-class interactions: Attitudes
  vs. Practice   From industry to government to academia, attracting and retaining science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics majors is recognized as a key element
of the 21$^{\text{st}}$ century knowledge economy. The ability to retain
students seems to be intimately tied with understanding their immersion into
the academic and social system of an institution. For instance, it has been
noted that insufficient interactions with peers can lead to a low commitment to
the university and, ultimately, affect one's decision about whether to drop
out. Since nearly half of first-time students who leave a university by the end
of the freshman year never come back to college, the importance of
understanding experiences in introductory courses as a means for improving
students' persistence is particularly pronounced. We investigate students'
experiences in an introductory physics courses, focusing on their self-reported
perception of the values of out-of-class collaborations. We find that, even
though students consider the out-of-class collaborations to be important for
success, it takes a relatively long time before they start practicing
collaborative learning.

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The categories of this paper are: hep-ph
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The categories of this paper are: alg-geom
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The categories of this paper are: econ
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The categories of this paper are: solv-int
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The categories of this paper are: nucl-ex
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The categories of this paper are: nucl-th
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The categories of this paper are: cs
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The categories of this paper are: math-ph
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The categories of this paper are: quant-ph
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The categories of this paper are: q-fin
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The categories of this paper are: funct-an
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The categories of this paper are: plasm-ph
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The categories of this paper are: acc-phys
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The categories of this paper are: nlin
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The categories of this paper are: hep-lat
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The categories of this paper are: q-bio