Collection

2022 ASEE - North Central Section Conference

Authors

Matthew Cavalli, Western Michigan University; Anetra Grice, Western Michigan University

first semester, one near the start of the term and one nearthe end. Questions related to two aspects of the Big Five personality inventory(Conscientiousness and Openness to Experience), as represented by the International PersonalityItem Pool9, were included. The survey also contained questions about mindset, self-direction,and student self-efficacy (e.g., confidence in eventually graduating). Results of the start-of-semester survey have been presented elsewhere18,19. The purpose of this work is to compareresponses to the end-of-semester surveys with those from the start of the term as well as toinvestigate correlations from the end-of-term responses with subsequent student retention.Experimental Methods/Materials/Project ApproachFor both the