free tochoose what they would like to compare with others and which performance goals they focusedon. For example, in the air-powered vehicle activity, a child may be concerned about whethertheir vehicle moved across the track like other children’s designs (i.e., performance-avoidance)and at the same time also want to ensure their vehicle looks the coolest (i.e., performance-approach). For mastery goal orientations, the mastery-avoidance goal orientation was closelyrelated with performance orientations. This may be due to the overarching component acrossthese survey items, such as fear of failure (see [17]). Mastery-avoidance may also be challengingfor young children to reflect on since it requires a sense of their own learning ability. What
system. After the pilot, teachers indicated feeling well connectedto the university and supported throughout an otherwise challenging semester during a globalpandemic. Teaching expectations were reflected in student outcomes, all earning at least a B at theconclusion of the course, granted as directly transcripted credit. This is to say that sophomore,junior and senior students completing the course received a transcript from the university with norequirements or matriculation agreement to enroll at the university to receive their credits, leavingpost-secondary options open. However, outside of the course the school has agreements with theuniversity that provides preferred admittance to 9 out of 10 colleges in the university.Recommendations
questions take the form of natural language, “phrased in a way thatinterviewees can understand.” In this context we moved away from the specific language of self-regulation and motivation, given the research-specific definition of these terms, to use languagesuch as “approach,” “confidence,” or “interest.” As seen in Table 1, we also reflected on the timebasis for each interview question here. To help participants reconstruct their class experiences[21, p. 90] and ease cognitive demand we organized interview questions chronologically. Withthat organization, interview question about pre-class conceptions were an induction to theprocess of describing beginning, during, and post-class experiences. In this phase we alsodesigned transition and follow-up
developmentwith external business mentors. The program’s first year contains training in Agile and Designfor Six Sigma methodologies. Finally, the program involves participation from all faculty andtechnical staff in the engineering school - an all hands on deck approach. We summarize thecurricular changes and decisions made over the past five years, as well as present novel datagleaned from student and faculty reflections. A major change in the curriculum was a changefrom a model with 10 weeks of typical coursework and only 5 weeks of DesignSpine to a moreintegrated 15 full weeks, as both student teams and clients needed more time to effectively workon the design project. Also, as the program grew, there was the need to change the leadership
disciplines to be matched to our fellows. The mentors work closely with the fellows to introduce them to the culture and learning environments of community colleges, while helping them recognize and explore the possibility of a rewarding career at a community college.c) Professional Development Activities - A series of webinars are conducted biweekly. The fellows are also required to observe at least two classes at the community college facilitated by their mentors. Sample agendas from the Spring 2021 and 2022 are shown below: i) One on One Mentor meetings - Fellows are required to meet with their mentors at least once a month. At the end of each month a reflective summary of 150 words are required to be
community based participatory design and context consideration intheir work and design practice.For this workshop, post intervention interviews will be conducted to learn about the co-designexperience and understand the influence of the context canvas on the perspective regardingdesigning learning experiences. Interviews will be reflective in nature, following asemi-structured protocol and taking approximately 30-45 minutes to complete. They will beaudio recorded and transcribed. Sample questions are included in Table 1. Questions askedduring the post intervention interview are centered on the context canvas experience and howparticipants used what they had gained in the introductory context workshops and overallreflections on the concept of
, and Fall 2021 semesters. During the part of the semester where flipped modules wereassigned, the class meetings were held remotely in Spring 2020, Spring 2021, and in-person in Fall2021.Students in a learner-centered environment are expected to engage with their learning and practicetheir skills [25], [26]. A holistic view of active learning includes three main components:information and ideas, experience, and reflective dialogue [27]. A successful active learningframework should consider how students (i) encounter new information and ideas, (ii) engage withinformation and ideas, and (iii) reflect on their learning. In our study, our framework considered: i. Students encounter the new material through short videos to present the machine
Associate Professor and Director for Diversity and Inclusion in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Carolina. He is also the ASEE Campus Representative and a Senior Faculty Associate in the Center for Integrative and Experiential Learning (CIEL). His current educational interests include designing and implementing problem-based learning strategies for within-the-classroom and beyond-the-classroom experiences, creating and evaluating inclusive learning environments, and facilitating critical student reflection in engineering education.Muwafaq AwadInthuorn Sasanakul © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022
knowledge production and these interventions should not beat the cost of the students’ well-being. Methodologies that center the experiences of marginalizedpeoples while simultaneously not being harmful or exploitative are lacking in engineeringeducation research. This paper suggests a different path and reflects on how we can build a bettermethodology that does not further harm. We argue that building a more responsive and lessexploitative research methodology starts by understanding trauma in relation to structural andsystemic oppression, applying Kimberlé Crenshaw’s intersectional framework to the ways wedescribe trauma, and being context-specific with the communities we aim to research. We hopethis paper acts as a call to action for other
industryand higher education.The types of evaluation methods used in the studies described above are student reflections, peerand faculty feedback, student surveys and exit interviews, and alumni surveys [1], [4], [8], [9],[13], [14]. Student surveys have often been used after teaching events to self-report about theeffectiveness of the lessons [4], [8], [9], [14]. Similar to the student perceptions studies describedabove, the study in this paper used a post-event student survey with a Likert scale [15], [17]. Toprovide context into the quantitative responses, each of those questions were followed by anopen-answer question.Research QuestionsThis study provides an analysis of how a group of students have valued leadership trainings withrespect to
covered abouttwo thirds of their projected academic costs. Once on campus, the program attempted to create apositive, success-reinforcing community of students, similar to those found in minority advocacyorganizations and smaller engineering departments (Baldwin et al., 2021a). Students began theircollegiate STEM experience with a boot camp designed to emulate the expectations and work loadof the first-year engineering program at Purdue, in a consequence-free environment. During eachschool year, students were provided with a friendly, success-tools oriented seminar by one of theprogram’s investigators. Reflective writing exercises were emphasized to encourage writtencommunication skills and career focus (McCarthy, 2011; Bolton, 2006). Purdue has
component isthe one where the student receives the information in real time, this can be face-to-face or virtual[9], [23]. The difference with the asynchronous component is that it imparts knowledge throughvideos or readings without the teacher being in real time with the students. The video presentedby the teacher can be recorded by the teacher or by someone else. The individual and groupassignments are used to reinforce the knowledge learned through tasks in which they are put intopractice.The versatility of the BFL is reflected in how it adapts to different situations that may arise in aclassroom. In the past, if for some reason it was impossible to attend the classroom, it was a lostday of learning. Furthermore, thanks to technological advances
things in a more meaningful way as well as making roomto reflect on their own learning. Kevin reported: “On the problem-solving side, looking at how, from a teacher, from the role of a teacher, getting students to struggle, to understand what it means to create something that was not what they intended, and to really look at, OK, I'm not gonna settle for that. And just really learning how not to give them the answers. So I think as an educator I grew in that area. Because as a math teacher: Okay, we gotta move on [and I will provide the answer].”Kevin continued: “But so when I asked them [students] questions about what wasn't working, I would pose the questions in a way: What if you did this? What
measurable change for either group. The two-sample t-test performedfor questions F2, F3, F4, T5, C4, and C6 yielded a zero change across the semester for both theself-designated VCE and Microsoft Team’s groups. These questions may reflect the generalconditions of teamwork or reflect the class's layout. For example, question F2 read, “I felt class-related resources were readily available to me.” It could be viewed as more dependent on theinstructor’s use of LMS or file sharing rather than the file sharing within the participant’s team.This would reflect the course rather than the effectiveness of the VCE or the student’s choice ofVCE in this study. This will be further expanded upon in the limitations section of this paper.Another noteworthy
described the importance of education for the futuredevelopment of this field: “One of the ‘grand challenges’ for nanotechnology is education, whichis looming as a bottleneck for the development of the field” [6]. Reinforcing a betterunderstanding of nanoscale is important if one strives to understand how matter is constructedand how the properties of materials reflect their components, their atomic composition, theirshapes, and their sizes.Imaging techniques such as scanning electron microscopy (SEM) are recognized as an important“gateway” tool for introductory students to view and understand material properties in the fieldof nanotechnology. The challenge, however, is the gap of knowledge between what is happeninginside the electron microscope
conclusion of their work. In addition to my grades, team evaluation is alsocollected and weighted into the final grades.Observations, Reflections and DiscussionsThe redesigned course has been offered three times in the fall semester of the year 2019 (in person),2020 (virtual Zoom) and 2021 (in person). Here, I only focus on the course taught in person to reflectthe challenges that I have experienced in redesigning and delivering this course, since online teachingadds significant complexity to make direct reflection on teaching effectiveness and student learningexperience. 1. The relatively large student enrollment limits the faculty – student interaction, and a similar issue has been widely reported [9]. In 2019 and 2021, the class
simple concept mapping activity can have benefitsfor students early in their engineering coursework to reflect on mindset and technical knowledge.IntroductionThis paper describes a classroom module designed to increase engineering student skills in bothstatics and value creation career formation in the context of building an entrepreneurial mindset.For this work, we define entrepreneurial mindset to be consistent with the EngineeringUnleashed community, “An entrepreneurial mindset (EM) influences the way you think about theworld and act upon what you see. It is a collection of mental habits that empower you toquestion, adapt, and make positive change, leading you to: Recognize and identify opportunities;Focus on their impact; Create value in any
the extremely lownumbers of Black males in engineering, participants experienced isolation and scrutiny from whiteand Asian male peers [5]. The stereotypes and assumptions about Black males excluded them fromvital educational resources such as study groups which often formed around gender and raceaffinity [5]. Similarly, Burt et al. find that graduate student-advisor relationships in graduateengineering often included microaggressions and reflected unsupportive environments thatperpetuated structural and social inequities [7]. These discrimination experiences and microaggressions can cause traditionallyunderserved students to see engineering as unwelcoming and unsupportive [4, 7, 15, 16]. Womenexperience judgment and stereotypes based
onefactor, and loadings ranged from .42 to .79 (see Table 1). Communalities ranged from .23 to .58.The factors explained 39.26% of the variance in the items. The first factor consisted of eightitems from the original problem-solving identity subscale, so we kept that label, Problem-Solving Identity. The second and third factors consisted only of items from the original approachavoidance style subscale. The seven items of Factor 2 all expressed variations of the idea that therespondent engaged in little to no reflection either before or after solving a problem; they just didnot want to think about it (e.g., “When I am confronted with a complex problem, I do not botherto develop a strategy to collect information so I can define exactly what the
is described as any act or work done by the students in a classroom that is extendedbeyond listening passively to the instructor and taking notes [7]. It can take many forms and canbe as simple as answering questions during the lecture or as more involving as asking the studentsto reflect on the presented material and their learning experience [8]. The effectiveness of activelearning had been extensively investigated in the literature and was proven to increase students’learning, engagement, and interest in the topics discussed [8-11]. Despite these facts, the traditionallecture-based learning is still the dominant approach in STEM fields [12, 13]. According to thestudy presented in [14], only 30% of faculty in Electrical and Computer
received her B.S. and M.S. in Food Science from Cornell University and her Ph.D. in Food Process Engineering from the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Purdue University. She was an inaugural faculty member of the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University and now leads the Discipline-Based Education Research Initiative in the College of Engineering at UNL. Her research focuses on the development, implementation, and assessment of modeling and design activities with authentic engineering contexts. She also focuses on the implementation of learning objective-based grading and reflection. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022
butenacts integration in their program implementation. Rather than describing all benefits andchallenges of these programs, citations allow interested readers to discover more about theprograms and their specific implementations. This paper then presents various related topicsincluding reflections from faculty at other programs who have participated in earlierconversations, key points from earlier discussions, and a starting point for the engineeringeducation community to use for future consideration.Four Perspectives on Integrated EngineeringIntegrated Engineering is used as the name of a cross-department programme at UniversityCollege London (UCL), the name of an undergraduate major at Minnesota State University,Mankato (MSU) and University of
increasing thevariety of tools students could pick to better reflect the selection within the makerspaces. Themain difference is that three categories (crafts, paint booth, and CAD station) were not includedfor School A in the Fall 2020 survey, but do show up in the Spring 2021 survey. These tools arenot included in the modularity analysis for School A for the Fall 2020 semester. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 2022 ASEE Conference Table 1: The tool list included in the surveys. Relevant differences between the two schools (Aand B) are highlighted in terms of the barriers to their use (training required, course directed use, and no supervision required). Tools that were
individual reflects upon an action when the action is repeated, and he or she can make an internal mental construction called a process by which the individual can think of as performing the same kind of action without an external support... An object is results from individual’s awareness of the process’ totality and realizes that transformations can act on it... A schema is a linkage of collected actions, processes, objects, and other schemas that help to form a framework by using general principles in individual’s mind...Every concept can be constructed on different concepts and schemas in the APOS theory. We canalso say that every concept requires concept knowledge, and the construction of a specific conceptdepends on
a step.Among those who felt that they were less likely to forget a task, several commented on theswitching process that was highlighted previously. Others commented on the existence of a blankspace in the LiveScript, in contrast to those who referenced the blank space in the worksheet. ThisFigure 2: Students felt more likely to forget to upload a deliverable when given a separate instruc-tions file.may reflect a concern over the questions to be answered in the lab as opposed to completing thecoding steps called out in the instructions, and which one a student felt was morechallenging. Student 3: In the livescript, if you forget a task there will be an empty blank space. This makes it hard to miss as opposed to a seperate
allinterviewees were members of the target study population. Negative case analysis increases theprecision of the codebook by anticipating potential discrepancies in the coding process andrefines the coding process by providing comparative references for which excerpts belong and donot belong to a certain code [20]. During the development of the codebook, at least one negativecase was identified for each code. Reflexivity is the acknowledgement that the researchers enactsignificant influence on the research process simply by being the active researcher [19], [21].Analytical memoing enables researchers to reflect on how they influence the data and how theirpersonal views impact their interpretations of the data [22]. The coding team wrote analyticalmemos
opportunity in integrating VRT into the studentcurriculum to enhance their active teaching methodology. Implementation of VRT-based learningas part of the courses could enhance course offerings in the achievement of student outcomes whiledeciding on the best alignment of the VRT as a scarce resource remains a challenge.2.0 Literature review2.1 The Methods and Practice of Teaching: VRT as an enablerThe types of pedagogical models are inexhaustive from direct instruction to game-based projects[16]. However, they can be classified into one of these three types which are teacher-centered,learner-centered, and learning-centered [17]. Researchers often conduct experiments onexperiential learning which is learning by doing, and this reflects in pedagogical
goals for this course are: (1) to provide a general approach to scientificresearch and graduate school preparation, and (2) to prepare the students for the subsequentEngineering Honors laboratory experience course, ES 4580 Undergraduate Research (again,cross listed across the college), or for Honor’s students as either HP 4975 (Independent Study) orthrough the undergraduate research course number in the students home department.. Thesebroad goals were then separated into individual learning objectives as reflected below. Two required textbooks will be used for the course: The Craft of Research by Booth,Colomb and Williams[17], and The Craft of Scientific Presentation by Alley.[18] In addition,On Being a Scientist: Responsible Conduct in
-assessment, was used as part of a solid mechanics course offered to first year engineeringstudents at the University of Waterloo. In this course, first-year engineering students wererequired to complete various hands-on lab activities, and a final project as a group. Oncesubmitting their initial work on the platform, they were then required to individually assess theirpeers’ work, and then individually reflect on the grades that they received. The grade theyreceived for their group work, the quality of their peer evaluations, and the feedback theyprovided on the grades they received from their peers were all factors of their final individualgrade for each assessment. This encouraged students to evaluate each other’s work in a genuinemanner
, and the 2nd-year contest judging was done with more various judges fromdifferent parties.Assessment / RubricThe assessment was carefully designed for both the class term projects and the contest judgingprocess. The class project criteria were aligned with the ML contest rules to measure the project’sperformance in the following six categories: 1) originality and creativity, 2) functionality andtechnical qualities, 3) demo video, 4) presentation, 5) participation in live sessions and mission,and 6) popularity according to people’s votes. For each category, teams could earn points or losepoints, meant to guide and encourage the participating teams. This assessment was specificallydesigned to not only reflect students’ learning but also Qeexo’s