Perry, R., & Caldwell, C., & Moore, M. M., & Tellis, K. (2019, July), Work‐in‐Progress: Using First‐Year Engineering Laboratory to Improve a Student’s Readiness to Pursue an Engineering Degree.  Paper presented at 2019 FYEE Conference , Penn State University , Pennsylvania. 10.18260/1-2--33747

\bibitem{asee_peer_33747}
  Perry, R., \& Caldwell, C., \& Moore, M. M., \& Tellis, K. (2019, July), \emph{Work‐in‐Progress: Using First‐Year Engineering Laboratory to Improve a Student’s Readiness to Pursue an Engineering Degree.}
  Paper presented at 2019 FYEE Conference , Penn State University , Pennsylvania.
  10.18260/1-2--33747

Reginald Perry, Charmane Caldwell, Melodee M Moore, and Kenneth Tellis.  "Work‐in‐Progress: Using First‐Year Engineering Laboratory to Improve a Student’s Readiness to Pursue an Engineering Degree.".  2019 FYEE Conference , Penn State University , Pennsylvania, 2019, July.  ASEE Conferences, 2019.  https://peer.asee.org/33747 Internet.  18 Apr, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_33747}
  Reginald Perry, Charmane Caldwell, Melodee M Moore, and Kenneth Tellis.
  "Work‐in‐Progress: Using First‐Year Engineering Laboratory to Improve a Student’s Readiness to Pursue an Engineering Degree.".
  \emph{2019 FYEE Conference , Penn State University , Pennsylvania, 2019, July}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2019.
  https://peer.asee.org/33747 Internet.  18 Apr, 2024

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Work in Progress: First‐Year Engineering Laboratory (FYEL) is a course usually taken by freshman
engineering students during one semester of their first year at the FAMU‐FSU
College of Engineering. The course is designed to meet three primary objectives:
(1) inspire students by reinforcing their desire to pursue engineering as a
professional career, (2) orient students to the university environment by
presenting information designed to ease their transition from high school, and (3)
introduce students to a set of technical and social skills which are needed to
complete an engineering degree program.
Although the technical content of our course is not overly difficult, we still find
that some students are unable to complete it with a satisfactory grade. This is
troubling since we have previously reported that good performance in this course
correlated well to degree completion in engineering. Academic preparedness as
measured by high school grade point average and college placement test scores
are some obvious factors to consider. However, others may also be just as
important. These may include the high school a student attended, a student’s
access to technology, and the intrinsic motivation or mindset of a student.
This work‐in‐progress will report on some of our findings as we examine the firstyear
students who completed the course during a fall semester between 2013
and 2017. We especially look at the performance of these students on the FYEL
midterm. This is a multiple choice test which is worth 20% of a student’s overall
grade and is normally given around week 8 or 9 in the semester. We are using
Bloom’s Taxonomy to classify each question to determine if a relationship exists
between the type of questions which separate the top students from those in the
bottom quartile. We also examine factors such as race/ethnicity, gender,
instructional method, and course instructor. With these results, it may be
possible to develop specific interventions to assist students in closing the
preparation gap thus improving their likelihood of completing an engineering
degree program.
AU  - Reginald Perry
AU  - Charmane Caldwell
AU  - Melodee M Moore
AU  - Kenneth Tellis
CY  - Penn State University , Pennsylvania
DA  - 2019/07/28
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Work‐in‐Progress: Using First‐Year Engineering Laboratory to Improve a Student’s Readiness to Pursue an Engineering Degree.
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DO  - 10.18260/1-2--33747
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