Conference Session

Diversity, Recruiting, and Retention in ET

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aram Agajanian, DeVry University-Chicago; George Morgan, Colorado State University; William M. Timpson, Colorado State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

takendirectly from the General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSE) developed by Jerusalem and Schwarzer18.The researcher adapted five questions for self-confidence from the Women in EngineeringPrograms and Advocates Network (WEPAN) Student Experience Survey19. Table 2 shows themeasures and the survey questions related to each measure.Each measure was based on Likert scale and/or personal/demographic questions. The sevenlevels of the Likert scale were: 1 = Strongly Agree (SA), 2 = Disagree (D), 3 = Mildly disagree(MD), 4 = Neither agree nor disagree (N), 5 = Mildly agree (MA), 6 = Agree (A), and 7 =Strongly agree (SA).Table 2Measures and the Related Questions Measures Questions Self-Confidence