Denson, C., & Austin, C. Y., & Hailey, C. E. (2012, June), Investigating Unique Aspects of the MESA Program for Underrepresented Students  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--21613

\bibitem{asee_peer_21613}
  Denson, C., \& Austin, C. Y., \& Hailey, C. E. (2012, June), \emph{Investigating Unique Aspects of the MESA Program for Underrepresented Students}
  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas.
  10.18260/1-2--21613

Cameron Denson, Chandra Y. Austin, and Christine E. Hailey.  "Investigating Unique Aspects of the MESA Program for Underrepresented Students".  2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2012.  https://peer.asee.org/21613 Internet.  11 Jan, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_21613}
  Cameron Denson, Chandra Y. Austin, and Christine E. Hailey.
  "Investigating Unique Aspects of the MESA Program for Underrepresented Students".
  \emph{2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2012.
  https://peer.asee.org/21613 Internet.  11 Jan, 2025

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AB  -           Investigating Unique Aspects of the MESA Program for                        Underrepresented StudentsTopic: New research and trends related to underrepresented minorities in engineeringFor over forty years, the Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA)program has supported educationally disadvantaged students and minority students inmiddle schools and high school. MESA utilizes as co-curricular academic enrichmentmodel that includes “academic planning, community service, family involvement,academic enrichment, hands-on engineering activities, career advising, field trips,competitions and workshops.”1In 2010, the National Science Foundation funded an exploratory research study toexamine the effect of MESA activities on student engineering self-efficacy, interest inengineering and perceptions of engineering. The Engineering Self-Efficacy, Interests andPerceptions (ESIPS) survey instrument was developed by modifying and building uponinstruments used in prior studies. The ESIPS instrument was piloted with166 studentsfrom MESA programs in Utah and California. The results of survey and theaccompanying factor analysis provided evidence for the researchers and their advisorycommittee that more developmental work was needed to unpack the activity variablesassociated with MESA programs. In an effort to create activity components, researchersconducted focus group interviews with MESA students from five different programsthroughout the state of California. Using a grounded theory approach, five groupsconsisting of seven to ten MESA students were interviewed for approximately one hour.The following questions guided the study:        (1) Can you describe one of the best times you have had in MESA?        (2) What do you think you are gaining by participating in MESA?The focus group interviews were audio recorded and later transcribed for the purpose ofanalysis. Employing a grounded theory approach, the researchers looked for emergentthemes in the participants’ responses. Themes that achieved saturation were identifiedand correlated between two analysts in order to establish inter-rater reliability. The resultsof the analysis produced seven distinct themes that describe MESA’s impact on students:(a) informal mentoring, (b) makes learning fun (c) development of time managementskills (d) opportunities to express creativity, (e) application of math and science, (f)feelings of accomplishment, and (g) builds confidence.The proposed paper will provide detail about the focus group results and how theseresults were included in an improved ESIPS survey instrument.1. MESA USA. (2011). Retrieved from http://mesa.ucop.edu/about/mesausa.html
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