at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research interests in engineering education focus on the role of self-efficacy, belonging, and other non- cognitive aspects of the student experience on engagement, success, and persistence and on effective methods for teaching global issues such as those pertaining to sustainability. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Industry-University Capstone Design: How did students adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic?AbstractA 2015 survey of 256 institutions from the US revealed that 70% of their capstone programswere funded by industry and government sponsors. This indicates the
. Her current research interests, publications, and presentations give attention to racial identity, science identity, science self- efficacy, metacognition, and STEM achievement of African American students. As a strong advocate for the participation of African American females in STEM, Dr. White continuously engages in discourse and research that will promote greater access to STEM-related opportunities and recognition of African American females. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Faculty Perceptions of STEM Student and Faculty Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study (WIP)Abstract The recent
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perceptions of both the organization and the individual [61]. Researchestimates that a failure to empower employees in their work costs U.S. businesses up to $550billion annually [62]. The interaction between value incongruence and empowerment is criticalbecause it highlights a space where engineers might experience tensions that their engineeringeducation makes them ill-equipped to address [24] [38]. Notably, Chatman [63] postulates that aperson can successfully overcome potential adverse effects caused by person-organization valueincongruence—and even influence the organization’s values to be more like their own—if theyfeel empowered (i.e., perceive themselves as having self-efficacy and control) over the situation.We argue that these tensions
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, 2021 Community Designers: A Pilot Virtual Community Co-Design Symposium1. Introduction: Who Controls the Power of Design?What if you did not get to select your clothes? What if, instead, certain sizes, colors and styleswere assigned to you based on what’s typical for your demographic identities? Not only wouldyour clothes not fit your shape or your taste, they might even cause further social andprofessional problems. At an even deeper level, not having the autonomy to make thesedecisions would undermine your self-efficacy and your trust in the institutions that are supposedto help and support you.This scenario illustrates, by analogy, what happens to communities all the time. Policies
relevant resources, which will beintroduced to all departments through an orientation and follow-up communications.Guided Engineering Apprenticeship in Research (GEAR): Launched in 2019, GEAR is ayear-long research experience for early undergraduates that aims to provide a scaffoldedexperience to support the development of students’ research self-efficacy, engineering identity,and sense of belonging and inclusion within the field--especially among underrepresented, firstgeneration, and low-income students. The program is based on the NSF-funded Early ResearchScholars Program in the Computer Science and Engineering Department [14]. Assessment of thepilot year of the GEAR program found that 1) participants gained research skills/knowledge inways
been proven again and again to bepoor indicators of success in graduate school, particularly in research-based degree programs;and instead, are better predictors of gender and race/ethnicity. Likewise, research tells us that astudent’s GPA is a result of a wide variety of factors in addition to academic potential, includinggender, race, first generation status, and socioeconomic standing [24-29].Alternatively, several better indicators have now been correlated with graduate school success inresearch-based degree programs, including self-efficacy, perseverance, motivation, and a passionfor research and prior research experience [30-34]. A holistic application review process thatfocuses on these evidence-based metrics of success with a de
Civil En- gineering from North Carolina State University in the USA. Her disciplinary research interests lie in the area of sustainability in asphalt pavements using material considerations, green technologies, and efficient pavement preservation techniques. Her doctoral work focused on improving the performance of recycled asphalt pavements using warm mix asphalt additives. As a postdoctoral scholar at North Carolina State University, she worked on several NCDOT sponsored research projects including developing specifica- tions for crack sealant application and performing field measurements of asphalt emulsion application in tack coats and chip seals. Her undergraduate teaching experience includes foundational
assignificant predictors of teacher self-efficacy and job satisfaction in South Africa [49].Aconsistent theme in these articles was the need to revisit the underlying reasons that teachersjoin the profession to start with.Long-term teaching practices. The next systemic reform recommendation advocates theextension of government-sponsored teaching practice for STEM educators to betterappreciate the requirements of the teaching profession in schools. The recommendation waswidely encouraged by 91.8% of the sample population that was involved in the mixedmethods study [50]. The authors investigated school administrators’ perceptions of theemployability of preservice science, technology, and mathematics teachers through teachingpractice in Nigeria. The
self-efficacy and supporting their further classroom experience andprofessional identity.Fletcher et al. [16] illustrates the former and highlights the top HBCU, Spelman College as anexemplary institution. The women-only HBCU historically provides a climate that centers asset-based practices yielding an environment—regardless of external factors— of professionalexcellence and scholarly development. Spelman leverages the strengths and unique features oftheir students by ensuring that they are not only prepared to be in any sector, but they embodyexcellence in their lives. The notions of identity begetting success are complex and present afurther complicated concept when considering the pressures placed on students to navigateacademia
: Was admitted in Summer 2018, completed all courses; commented saying admission to program was smoother than admission to the University.Findings from the SurveyExhibit 3 shows numerical summaries of responses to survey questions. Students admitted inSpring 2021 could only answer the first 3 survey questions related to Application & Admission,Onboarding, and MEM SSC Effectiveness. This was due to minimal interaction and experiencewith the program at the time of survey completion. Hence, several students admitted in Spring2021 wrote in the open comments area of the survey that they marked Neutral or they chose tonot answer questions 4 – 9 (see Exhibit 3).Questions were measured on a 5-point Likert scale and an open response field was
predicted interestin STEM careers, even when controlling for past experience and self-efficacy in science andmathematics”.This concept was further supported by Ramsey [20] when she took on the case study ofstudents and faculty members of a university science department and found that “both facultyand students, regardless of gender, perceived agentic traits as more important for success inscience than communal traits”.To ‘tie’ value systems together, Trapnell and Paulhus [21], conducted a study and found thatagentic values are more corelated to Self Enhancing values, and similarly, communal valuesto those of Self Transcending and Conservation values, of the Schwartz’s Personal Valuesystem. These findings were obtained during their development of the
of Virginia. Whitney earned her Ph.D. in Teacher Education and Learning Sciences with a concentration in Educational Psychology from North Carolina State University. She holds a Master of Arts in Teaching from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and received her Bachelor of Science in Biology from Winston-Salem State University. McCoy’s research explores identity development for Black girls in educational settings. Her research interests include critical race theory, racial identity devel- opment, self-efficacy, and STEM education. Her dissertation, Black Girls Accepting the Grand Challenge: A Qualitative Exploration of a Summer Engineering Program’s Influence on Black Girls’ Racial Identity, Engineering
ensuring thatteachers implement new approaches as intended. [16], [17], [18].More studies have shown that teacher beliefs tend to influence how the enacted curriculum differsfrom the intended curriculum [19], [20]. It is also important to investigate curriculumimplementation beyond teachers’ self-report measures because what is reported tends to differ fromwhat is observed in the classroom [20]. To avoid the repeated pattern of instructional practices thatdo not align with what was intended in the curriculum, it is important to consider teacher beliefs asthey enact the curriculum. The study that is described in this article was designed to potentiallygather support for this claim.Research QuestionThere are many factors that can lead to the
from a dis- tance. She is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE and a member of the International Association of Online Engineering IAOE. Her research interests focus on Internet of Things, embedded systems, and engineering education.Dr. Denise Wilson, University of Washington Denise Wilson is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research interests in engineering education focus on the role of self-efficacy, belonging, and other non- cognitive aspects of the student experience on engagement, success, and persistence and on effective methods for teaching global issues such as those pertaining to sustainability
inclusion of neurodivergent students requiresus to move beyond the implementation of accessibility measures and adopt a strengths-basedapproach to acknowledge and cultivate the unique abilities and diverse thinking styles that thesestudents possess. While there is scant literature on the implementation of a strengths-basedapproach toward neurodiversity in the context of engineering or other STEM fields, a review ofthe existing literature finds that this approach is promising to enhance the wellbeing andacademic outcomes of neurodivergent students. One study found that a neurodiversity view wasassociated with expressions of greater career ambition and academic self-esteem [10], while thepost-program survey responses of participants in a strengths
Diekman et al. [77], “STEM careers are perceived as less likely than careers inother fields to fulfil communal goals (e.g., Working with or helping other people)” andindeed, found that “STEM careers, relative to other careers, were perceived to impedecommunal goals” and that “communal-goal endorsement negatively predicted interest inSTEM careers, even when controlling for past experience and self-efficacy in science andmathematics”; pointing out the agentic (as opposed to the communal) value of STEM.Ramsey [78] took on a study to test for the value systems of students and faculty staffmembers of a science department in a university, and found that all participants involved(students and faculty) “perceived agentic traits as more important for
] analyzed the “low-choice culture” of engineering curricula, particularly incontrast to other fields of study. In the context of new research demonstrating the value of selfdetermination or autonomy for students in motivating learning, enhancing self-efficacy, andsupporting persistence, the relative inflexibility of engineering curricula stood out starkly. Withinindividual courses, studies have shown the “power of choice” to positively influence studentoutcomes, for example, when students may choose from among a menu of design projects[45, 46], and recommendations have been made for the design of self-determination supportiveengineering-student learning experiences [47, 48]. However, Forbes, et al.,’s statistical analysis ofthe curricula at 46
context of the IBM and help-seeking, personal agency is driven bybeliefs about barriers and facilitators to seeking help and self-efficacy beliefs (e.g., confidence inability to seek help). Personal agency beliefs are influenced by background variables such asdemographic characteristics, culture, socioeconomic status, personality, and environmentalstressors. IBM provides researchers with a qualitative protocol for identifying key backgroundvariables and personal agency beliefs.In this study, we use an integrative approach to investigate students’ beliefs by combiningqualitative research methods with the Integrated Behavioral Model. As we seek to understandwhat beliefs drive help-seeking behavior, it is also important to understand the unique
communicate to students that accuracy and efficiency are valued over meaning-making. This can serve as an incentive to high-performing students and a disincentive to lower performing students and students with lower self-efficacy. In displaying content-centered courtesy and civic virtue, faculty prepare resources and provide feedback on progress; with few truly low-stakes opportunities for feedback, these reinforce the primacy of accurate and efficient knowledge acquisition. Ruinous Faculty display short-sighted learner-centered altruism and courtesy behaviors, empathy expressing care for students in ways that lower their expectations out of concern
● I am confident with Calculus ● I enjoy math ● I can apply my math skills to computing and engineering projectsThe pre- and post-bootcamp survey included the same ratings. Ten (n=10) out of seventeenstudents (59%) participated in the survey. The participation in surveys decreased 23 percentagepoints compared to the 2019 bootcamp which was held face-to-face. Table 2 shows the mean(M) and standard deviation (sd) for each item’s rating.By looking at Delta we observe that the average change in attitude represents mostly small-to-moderate increases in students’ ratings of their self-efficacy from before (pre-) to after (post-) thebootcamp. Deltas are greatest for students’ confidence with trigonometry (M = 1.05, sd = 0.21
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andOrganizational Foundations of Integration In 2010, although the total number of papers that fell into our categories did not increasesignificantly (17 in 2010 vs. 14 in 2000), awareness of published research did increase. In 2000,the average number of references was 6.4, but in 2010, the average number was 13.6, which ismore than a 100 percent increase. Whereas the median number of references in 2000 was 4.5 andthe mode was 1, the median number of references for 2010 was 10 and the mode was 7. Inessence, almost every paper in 2010 attempted to bring in a range of sources, whereas almosthalf of the papers in 2000 had only one to three citations. The number of references is, of course,only a crude measure of awareness of published research. That
an energy audit of [our] campus, working on a bookabout sustainable agriculture in the Lehigh valley, working on a traffic calming solution for [local]street. All within arms length with measurable and visible impact on student life (especially if youwere a student who volunteered at [campus organic farm], like I did!)” Another respondent invokedsustainability as a way of explaining the program to others: “I try to explain that it is a degreefocused on policy and critical thinking in engineering and sustainability with a technicalbackground.”Responses about the perceived strengths of the program also surfaced an emergent theme of“professional preparation” (8 responses). While this theme was not unexpected as a response tosurvey questions