Bartolini, A. C. (2024, July), FULL PAPER - Implementing Exam Wrappers in a First-Year Engineering Course	  Paper presented at 15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE), Boston, Massachusetts. 10.18260/1-2--48591

\bibitem{asee_peer_48591}
  Bartolini, A. C. (2024, July), \emph{FULL PAPER - Implementing Exam Wrappers in a First-Year Engineering Course	}
  Paper presented at 15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE), Boston, Massachusetts.
  10.18260/1-2--48591

Andrew Charles Bartolini.  "FULL PAPER - Implementing Exam Wrappers in a First-Year Engineering Course	".  15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE), Boston, Massachusetts, 2024, July.  ASEE Conferences, 2024.  https://peer.asee.org/48591 Internet.  24 Jan, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_48591}
  Andrew Charles Bartolini.
  "FULL PAPER - Implementing Exam Wrappers in a First-Year Engineering Course	".
  \emph{15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE), Boston, Massachusetts, 2024, July}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2024.
  https://peer.asee.org/48591 Internet.  24 Jan, 2025

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - This full paper examines the implementation of exam wrappers into a first-year engineering computing course. The study is currently being conducted at a medium-sized, private, Midwestern, residential university in the Spring 2024 semester. Exam wrappers allow students to reflect on how prepared they were for course exams and how effective their preparation was for the exams. Previous studies have shown that exam wrappers were generally successful in assisting students, particularly underprepared first-semester STEM students, in increasing their metacognitive skill sets [1, 2]. In the spring semester engineering computing course at the aforementioned university, a portion of the students completed an exam wrapper after each of the exams. Sample questions included: 

- Approximately how much time do you spend each week studying XXXX material using non-required activities? Examples of activities that fit this description include re-watching the videos, creating/using flash cards, reviewing solutions, trying new problems, and trying practice problems.
- When did you start specifically preparing for the XXXX exam associated with this wrapper?
- How much total time did you spend specifically preparing for the XXXX exam associated with this wrapper?
- What tools and strategies did you use as part of your studying specifically for the XXXX exam associated with this wrapper?
- How prepared did you feel coming into the XXXX exam associated with this wrapper?
- How stressed did you feel coming into the XXXX exam associated with this wrapper?
- How confident did you feel about your performance on the XXXX exam associated with this wrapper immediately after completing the exam?
- Did you have a strategy for how to take the XXXX exam before starting (i.e., starting on problems you felt more comfortable with or starting on the free response problem(s) first)
- Did you perform as well as you wanted to on the XXXX exam associated with this wrapper?
- Did you perform as well as you expected to on the XXXX exam associated with this wrapper?

Results of this full paper will include responses from the students on their perceived preparation for each exam and how they felt they performed on each exam. In addition, a comparison will be made on the results of those students who completed an exam wrapper compared to those who did not complete a wrapper. 

[1] A.T. Stephan, L.  Whisler, E.A. Stephan, and B. Trogden. "Using exam wrappers in a self-directed first-year learning strategies course." In 2019 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition 2019, Tampa, Florida, USA, June 2019.

[2] L.C. Hodges, L.C. Beall, E.C. Anderson, T.S. Carpenter, L. Cui, E. Feeser, T. Gierasch, K.M. Nanes, H.M. Perks, and C. Wagner. “Effect of exam wrappers on student achievement in multiple, large STEM courses.” In Journal of College Science Teaching, 50(1), pp.69-79. 2020

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