How to Improve Student's Retention Rate in Science and Technology

Our current economic era has been called the Information Age due to its dependence on the manipulation of information and the huge improvements in technology and science.In order for the United States to be able to compete effectively in the global economy it needs to train and graduate students who specialize in the sciences and technology.Therefore, it has become a major issue confronting the country.That is why the authors set out to find a way to keep students in science and technology programs since it is difficult to recruit them in the first place.This paper will present a general strategy toward assessing student performance and how to retain students according to those results.