Conference Session

Labs and Experiential Learning

Collection

2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference

Authors

Gurcan Comert; Zulfikar Berk, University of South Carolina; Robert Petrulis; Balaji Iyangar; Esmail M Abuhdima, Benedict college; Negash Begashaw, Benedict College

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Diversity, Labs and experiential learning

, 2021 2021 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference Proceedings | Paper ID 351621.0 IntroductionLike many Research Experience for Undergraduates programs around the country, in response to theCOVID-19 pandemic, the REUs at this historically Black college in the Southeast transitioned its programsto a virtual format in the summer of 2020. This paper reviews and reflects upon data we collected from theREU undergraduate participants, and participants in a broader summer research program, the SummerResearch Institute (SURI).Our STEM faculty have been hosting undergraduate research about 10 years. Since the summer of 2017,we have been working to adopt critical pedagogy into our undergraduate student research experiencesthrough carefully

Conference Session

Diversity, Inclusion, and Access

Collection

2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference

Authors

Samuel Darko; Gurcan Comert; Jessica Furrer, Benedict College; Andress Carter-Sims, Benedict College; Balaji Iyangar, Benedict College

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Diversity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Access

-Indiana Section Conference Proceedings | Paper ID 35163Benedict College Scientific Village), fused with critical pedagogy and hands-on laboratoryresearch, on the collegiate success and retention of minority students in the STEM disciplines.In the next section, we summarized our results. Faculty mentor and student reflections were notincluded. We compared the participants’ performance with control group and participants’placements up on completion of their study.2.0 Summary of Quantitative Data Analysis on SV Participants’ Academic Achievement,Scientific Engagement, and OutcomesWe collected data at all stages of the program including pre and post annual interviews, surveys,graduation, and retention rates on the BC Scientific Village cohort and

Conference Session

Diversity, Inclusion, and Access

Collection

2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference

Authors

Casey Lynn Haney, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Brenden Christopher Drinkard-McFarland, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Jennifer Deboer, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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Diversity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Access

individuals was incomplete or otherwise coded in a way that led tomissing data. To account for this, several steps were taken to recode variables andimpute data. First, all data for individuals under the age of six was eliminated, for theydid not complete the numeracy test. Several variables such as grade and school typedid not account for individuals who were not in school. A grade variable for those inschool and a last grade completed variable for dropout students were combined into asingle variable that reflected the last grade completed for all students. Additionally,those individuals who had never attended school were coded as a “-1” in grade. Forschool type, those who had never enrolled or dropped out were coded into a “‘noschool’” factor. Once

Conference Session

Classroom Methodologies

Collection

2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference

Authors

Brian S. Woodard, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Tiffany Wenting Li; Ziang Xiao, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Molly H Goldstein, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Michael L. Philpott, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

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Classroom methodologies, Diversity

for the week.The rest of the time was spent with the students performing introductory tasks in the online sketchingenvironment. They took turns sharing their screens and assisting each other with the virtual sketching tasks.These class interactions accounted for a small amount of the course grade. The majority of the grade wasassociated with completing the online training modules described previously. Short reflections were alsoa required part of the course. The students read articles or watched videos related to visualization orvisualization training, and then wrote 200 – 300 words about their reactions. Three of these assignments © American Society of Engineering Education, 2021 2021 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section