-disclosure, whilegratitude-focused writing led to more life satisfaction, with neither form of writing, however,having a significant impact on depressive symptoms (Booker & Dunsmore, 2017). Writing aboutlife goals, meanwhile, was associated with a significant increase in subjective well-being and along-term positive impact on physical health (King, 2001). In other story-driven learning interventions, meanwhile, ambivalence toward change,rumination, and distress significantly decreased throughout an online writing program (Batista etal., 2022). Similarly, story-driven learning in Indonesia led to increases in psychological capital(i.e., hope, self-efficacy, resilience, optimism) and ability to adjust to change (Prihatsanti, 2020
students’ engagement and Engineering courses. The section details confidence in hands-on lab/workshop activities; specific strategies and resources to make the hypervisibility of lab settings can cause laboratory experiences engaging and disengagement and low self-efficacy among a inclusive. certain population of students when using unfamiliar machines and tools - Avoid assumptions about
feedback. In Meeting 1 (Figure 1) co-instructors are invited toconsider their positionalities as they relate to each other [19]. How will the pairs address theinherent power differential between them? How will they approach differing opinions in theclassroom in real time? What are their preferences for giving and receiving feedback to eachother, and how can the mentor instill a sense of self-efficacy and advocacy in the mentee?Overall, we consider the redesigned program as a more intentional, more supportive, and highertouch experience for both mentors and mentees.OutcomesOwing to the continuous adjustments made in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and criseswithin our community, our program implementation proved to be a moving target, and we
self-efficacy towards using these strategies, how their students responded to theactivities, and the barriers they encountered when trying to implement active learning in theirclassrooms. The survey allowed an open space for instructors to describe the type of activity theyused in class that day and also asked “Does the activity you described above require students tointeract with each other?” The purpose of this distinction is to eventually better understand howstudents responses to active learning changes when they are asked to interact with their peers, asopposed to doing an activity that is non-interactive. For this paper, Study 1 will focus on whattypes of active learning is being used by instructors, as well as whether or not it is
. Different example methods can be seen in the faculty narratives. (2) Mentors should listen to the ideas and concerns of their mentees. This was uniformly important throughout the faculty narratives. All faculty mentioned methods to increase student interest in the project/field and support their self-efficacy as researchers. Further, the student survey, regardless of student gender, emphasized the importance of mentor “personal consideration.” (3) Mentors should provide career support, particularly for female mentees. While all undergraduate students should receive some level of career support, the female students surveyed indicated this as the most important role of the faculty research mentor
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single goal. Engagement in unstructured-specific activities is characterized by high self-motivation and high self-efficacy. For theseactivities, sometimes people engage to learn a task, while in others, engagement is driven by afixed-mindset: their mind was set on independent task completion. For example, one studentreflected on how he approaches working on his car in high school in this manner, saying, “I'd belike, all right, I'm going to try and identify the problem. I'm going to try and look at a video, seehow to do it.” Here we see that the activity was focused, goal-oriented, and driven by one’s self.A noted difference between unstructured-specific and structured-specific, is in the type ofactivities; with unstructured activities, the
systematically controlling for student motivation, self-efficacy, interest in science, or other variables that might influence performance. Thus,examining the effectiveness of bridge programs solely based on student’s academic success,persistence or retention could be insufficient [9]. There exists a need to examine a broader arrayof student outcomes.Instead of focusing only on academic outcomes to evaluate the effectiveness of summer bridgeprograms, we propose to consider an examination based on the transformative nature of theprograms in order to provide a holistic view of the effectiveness of the programs. Indeed, thetransformative learning theory posits that thought-provoking experiential activities or scenarios(also referred to as “disorienting
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, appropriate supervision of the project team, optimization of the necessaryallocated inputs, and their application to meeting the program’s objectives. The paperdescribes the effectiveness of the team as we utilized project management tools in managingthis large group of STEM projects over the past three years. Additionally, the paperelaborates on the social management theoretical framework on which the projectmanagement principles are hinged. The impactful outcomes of the STEM program inincreasing academic performance as well as improving key constructs associated with studentsuccess such as motivation, epistemic and perceptual curiosity, engineering identity, and self-efficacy through the team effectiveness metrics and the results of the Strength
' academic self-efficacy,research skills, research confidence, teamwork confidence, education, and engineering careerintentions are also presented in the paper. In addition, this study also illustrates how the student’sglobal experiences, such as cultural awareness, worldwide perspectives, and interest in globalengineering careers, have changed as a result of this project. Lastly, the lessons learned from theCOVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the project implementation and what changes are beingmade for the next cohort are also discussed.Project backgroundThree public universities in the states of Texas, Nevada, and North Dakota are working togetheron the IRES project. North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCAT),University of
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, teachers reinforceautonomy, contribute to increased intrinsic motivation in their students, and positively affectstudent engagement and feelings of competence [17] [18]. Students with self-efficacy who knowthey have successfully solved problems in the past believe in themselves and are more likely tosucceed in future problem-solving opportunities [19]. The integrated STEM curricula developedfor middle school students for the current study aim to support student autonomy andcompetence needs by giving students structured opportunities to make choices and reflect upontheir decisions in an engineering design project [5]. By helping students feel independent andcompetent, we support students' intrinsic motivation. The curriculumdesigners' motivation
translatedto action as part of a written student development plan with next steps, major milestones, andcontinuous feedback.Program AssessmentWe strive to execute an agile, build-test-build paradigm, where we continually evaluate our trainingmethodology and systems for student support. We do this through qualitative and quantitativeassessments of workshops and training. Through surveys we analyze student engagement, researchoutputs, and self-assessment (e.g., imposter syndrome, self-efficacy, confidence, belonging) whichare indicators of the effectiveness of programs of this nature 7,11 . These surveys are administered atthe beginning, middle, and end of the program so that fellows can see their growth real-time.Finally, we track longitudinal student
course. CLC’s Engineering program has alsostruggled with overall retention, especially amongst underrepresented students. Our NationalScience Foundation S-STEM grant addresses some of these issues by incorporating activitiesaimed at increasing self-efficacy and sense of belonging. The opportunity to improveexperiential learning in Engineering Design Graphics using the Baxter Innovation Lab resulted inthe development of new learning outcomes and the project work featured in this paper.In addition, many engineering students lack practical knowledge of how to use basic hand andpower tools, measure for fabrication, and inspect completed parts by comparing with the originaldesign. This often results in students’ virtual designs being impractical to
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performance, including motivation, self-efficacy, values,curiosity, and, most importantly, learning environments. Learning is a cognitive phenomenon thatdiffers from person to person. There is no doubt, however, that learning through hands-onexperience is an effective method of retaining information. Undergraduate students in this digitalage have grown up with technology and come from an education system that encourages criticalthinking, hands-on learning, teamwork, design skills, problem solving, and experiential learning[1]. Most students today are visual and interactive learners, and research in educational theory andcognitive psychology shows that this type of learning is one of the most effective methods forteaching students of all ages how to
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self-efficacy orreduce opportunities to make the course more challenging if they had higher personal learninggoals. Researchers speculated that some students may not make the connection between failureand iteration as an effective learning strategy.CollaborationStudents are required to work in groups in both courses and at times considered a “divide andconquer” approach to teamwork, in which each team member undertook a separate task, as themost efficient strategy. Investigators identified a need for a cooperative, integrated teamapproach to learning that would help students make sense of course material together with theirpeers by benefitting from one another’s knowledge and diverse experience.Creative ConfidenceAccording to David and Tom
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discussion class, and attend a couple of advancedscholarships in teaching and learning opportunities. Both sections will be attending a Teachingand Learning Symposium offered internally through the Provost office and faculty developmentcenter. Future analysis will include a deeper exploration of the impact of this certification on thestudents' development. This will include the following: ● Interviews with the students around their teaching philosophy. ● Examination of the new 396 cohort philosophy and 397 newly developed philosophies ● Impact analysis on motivation, attitudes, self-efficacy on the students and their career ● Impact on analysis on confidence and success in their respective courses as teaching fellows through
persistence toward graduating with an engineering degree.Student attitudes and beliefs are known to be important. For example, student beliefs aboutengineering career security and salary are predictors for persistence [3]. Student career aspirationhas also been observed as an indicator of persistence [2]. Other studies have highlighted theimportance of guidance and clarification of the role of engineers through advising, as manystudents may have incorrect assumptions about the culture of engineering [4]. One studyidentified six broad factors that drive attrition from engineering: classroom and academicclimate, grades and conceptual understanding, self-efficacy and self-confidence, high schoolpreparation, interest and career goals, and race and gender
and delivered themin a face-to-face workshop. They stated team formation, team roles, teamwork experience, andassessment and evaluation are areas that should be clearly addressed to enhance the capabilitiesof engineering educators in establishing effective gender-mixed teams.Beigpourian and Ohland [20] conducted a systematized review on the role of gender and race inteamwork in undergraduate engineering classrooms to highlight pertaining factors in the area ofwomen and minorities' teamwork that have been investigated in prior studies. They extracted keyterms related to race and gender in engineering Teamwork including collaboration,communication, leadership and self-efficacy, peer evaluation, perceptions of professors andstudents, team
performance [35]; • working project design and oral presentation [36], post-quiz and post-design [37]; • direct assessment (course design notebook, oral presentations, etc.) or indirect assessment (class feedback forms, process checks) [38, 39]; and • third party evaluation [40].Surveys, standard student evaluation or adapted evaluation tools [41] or anonymous [42] wereconducted to evaluate students’ group dynamics with open-ended questions [43], provide postinterventions [44], determine students gain in learning and self-efficacy [45], etc. Individualinterviews and focus group discussions were conducted to identify successful practices andlessons learned in cross-disciplinary virtual teams [46], as well as to assess the effectiveness
study the effectiveness of online lab experiences with the goal of improvingstudent success and self-efficacy. Online lab sessions must offer active learning experiences,which may include ample opportunities for students to interact with their peers and instructors,and tackle real problems by experiencing trials and errors. This research on the online labs cangreatly contribute to enhancing EE engineering student learning. Further, it will address thecritical component of EE engineering - experiential learning - with a lot of hands-on lab learningexperiences that can lead to a deeper understanding of engineering concepts. Well-designedonline labs can help students maintain enthusiasm for engineering fresh and can also increase theretention rate
IraqiUniversity. Each faculty member had excellent content knowledge of their respective disciplines.After a series of meetings with members of the school administration, we sent out a needsassessment survey via personalized links to the 161 faculty members in the college of engineering.The survey consisted of 11 sections including background and qualifications, current work,individualized approach to teaching, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) self-efficacy and perceived usefulness, professional development history, school climate, and schoolculture. The primary goal of this analysis was to facilitate conversation and inform stakeholdersof the areas of interest to concentrate the efforts of the proposed faculty development workshop.The
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who do not consider mentoring apriority, it should be noted that they were at least interested enough in mentoring or incentivizedsufficiently by the travel grants earmarked for students to have bothered completing thisvoluntary mentoring survey.Mentorship Seminar SeriesTo enable successful mentor-mentee relationships between graduate students and facultymembers, it is important to first understand how to start, build, and maintain one as well asrecognize what factors can contribute to failed mentoring. However, graduate students,especially minority graduate students, often lack this knowledge, significantly impacting theirresearch productivity, academic and research self-efficacy from experiencing unsatisfyingmentoring without the ability to
] reported results from a quasi-experimental study that evaluated embedded ethics modules in a computer science course. Thisintervention included discussion, perspective-taking activities and stakeholder analysis aroundthe ethics of contact tracing in a public health context. These researchers reported an increase instudents’ level of interest and perceived self-efficacy in addressing ethical issues. Our inventionalso seeks to increase interest and perception regarding ethical issues, and using a similar quasi-experimental methodology, we can review the implications of our intervention on students’perceptions of ethical and professional responsibility. Furthermore, Hess et al. [ 27] usedqualitative methods to investigate empathetic perspective