learning and academic identity. CUREs provideauthentic learning experiences, raise the level of expectations for all students, and support thedevelopment of a community of learners – all critical for students who have been historicallyunderrepresented in STEM [11] [12] [13] [14]. These experiences support development of self-efficacy, interest and identity in STEM [12] [15], contribute to improved course outcomes [16],and generally result in higher retention and persistence for participating students [17].Place-Based Learning CommunityThe term “learning community” refers to a purposeful restructuring of curriculum to link two ormore courses from different disciplines to emphasize connections and provide coherence in thecurriculum [18]. They are a
-awareness category involves not only understanding your ownemotions, values, strengths and self-efficacy, but also recognizing personal bias and how torecognize the interconnection of thoughts and feelings and actions across diverse contexts.Competencies in social awareness address empathy and compassion for those from same anddifferent backgrounds and cultures, understanding social norms for constructive behaviors andsupporting the collective well-being. Relationship skills include the ability to establish, navigateand maintain healthy relationships across social and cultural norms; communicating clearly,actively listening and working collaboratively whenever possible. Curriculum from thisorientation honors and connects to lived experiences of
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mentoring has thepotential to create a more diverse and inclusive learning environment that can promote thesuccess of Hispanic engineering students.AcknowledgementsThis work was funded by the Institute for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access in theGrainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois (Grant #GIANT2021-01). We also thankour mentors Victor Cervantes and Ivan Favila for their feedback.References[1] F. Arbelo, K. Martin, and A. Frigerio. Hispanic Students and Online Learning: Factors of Success. In HETS Online Journal, 9(2), May 2019.[2] A. Carpi, D.M. Ronan, H.M. Falconer, and N.H. Lents. Cultivating Minority Scientists: Undergraduate Research Increases Self-Efficacy and Career Ambitions for Underrepresented
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peers,faculty, staff, and campus life. With 55% of engineering students being first-generation, andeven fewer having family members with careers in STEM fields, students’ ability to visualizelife as an engineer or computer scientist becomes more challenging. Non-cognitive factors suchas low self-efficacy may also play a role in students’ sense of belonging in college and in STEMmajors. Especially with the low state-wide K-12 ranking and the high percentage of first-generation students, these factors correlate with a need to support stronger study skills and studyhabits, including bridging gaps in K-12 learning and skills. Some students also report that theyand their families can often underestimate the importance of academic workload demands
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Institute for research 1. Thisinstrument has been used by many colleges in the United States to measure the level of masterytheir graduates have in various skills. The instruments used in this study are composed of twomain sections. The first section contains demographic information about the professionalengineers and department heads, such as gender, race, level of education, employment type,experience, and location of the company. The second section on of the instruments contains thelist of skills that are needed for ECE graduates. The ECE professional engineers and ECEdepartment heads have been asked to rank the various skills based on their “level of importance”and the “degree of preparedness”. The focus of this paper is to highlight the
to theseissues, and perhaps new interventions need to be designed to increase women's self-efficacy inSTEM classes.With regard to the other observations about timing, modality, and repetition, further inquiry isnecessary to establish if the results are situational or suggestive of general patterns. The authorsintend to maintain working through a Community of Practice to refine the questions and generatefurther data to support more definitive conclusions.AcknowledgementsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under GrantNos. Grant Nos. 1821445, 1821638, 1821439, and 1821603. Any opinions, findings, andconclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do
institutions will be presented.IntroductionVirtual mentoring is not a new practice, it has been in existence for over 20 years [5], [6] [7], [8],[9]. The online setting can seamlessly connect undergraduate students across the country withmentors, and the GradTrack program was initially started in 2021 during the COVID-19pandemic. Virtual mentoring has also been shown to increase sense of community, STEMachievement, career self-efficacy, and drive to persist in mentors and mentees [10].The GradTrack mentoring structure is a scalable group and peer mentoring model, with 2graduate student mentors from Purdue with 5-7 URM undergraduate student mentees fromacross the United States and Puerto Rico joined in a mentoring circle. The second iteration of
of service learning and presents two senior capstone projects indetail: designing and building a zipline tower and two timber bridges for a local community. Thispaper outlines the entire design and build process from conception to completion, with emphasison problem definition, development of design ideas, communications and interactions withstakeholders, detailed designed improvement, and construction issues. Based on the learningoutcome assessments and feedback from the local community, these successfully providedprojects successfully provided vehicles to enable students to develop their technical skills andenhance their social self-efficacy and employability.IntroductionService learning was first pedagogically defined by Sigmon in 1979
attitudes and higher self-efficacy for innovation. Theydefined a mindful attitude as the willingness to engage in situations that may seem uncertain andnovel in one’s daily life. Respondents to the survey with mindful attitudes were more likely tohave been involved with leadership and entrepreneurial clubs, courses, and initiatives. Theresults suggest that students who exercise mindfulness in their routine are set up for successfulentrepreneurial and design-related endeavors.Through a meta-analysis of literature in psychology, Lebuda et al. (2016) demonstrated that thereis a statistically significant link between mindfulness and creativity. They found certain abilitiesthat promote creativity to be fostered through mindfulness training or trait
terms of sharing, thinking about, andcaring about others; and 2) how students’ self-perceptions of empathy correspond to externalevaluations of empathy from stories shared. We quantitatively assessed aspects of empathy in (n =20) students’ stories submitted around four specific prompts using the External Evaluation ofEmpathy Rubric (EEER). The empathy observed in these stories was then compared to thestudents’ self-reported empathy, as measured using the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI). Ourfindings illustrate that encouraging students to think about their future and their goals often yieldsthe highest scores for emotional, cognitive, and action-oriented components of empathy.Prompting students to describe confronting or responding to a
, participants seem to have strikingly different ideas of what it means to persist in ML/AI, and future work should continue to capture this. In quantitative studies, ML/AI should be clearly defined, with examples of roles.2. Questions about social belonging should assess the ability for students to develop meaningful close social connection, such as mentorship, rather than general social connection.3. Persistence research in tech-heavy engineering fields should assess programming self-efficacy, which women report lower levels of [52]. The increasing demand for these skills in engineering may exacerbate the technical confidence gap, further perpetuating the gender gap in these fields.We report on some initial ways persistence in ML/AI
health also encompass well-being, perceived self-efficacy, autonomy,competence, and the student’s recognition of their ability to realize both their intellectual andemotional potential [11]. Many mental health concerns do not manifest until emergingadulthood, and the significant life changes of adjusting to living on campus frequently amplifypsychological stress [12]. This stress often transfers to RAs, who share responsibility for thewellbeing of their residents, as described by a Residence-Life Coordinator: A lot of my RAs, like…, I needed to get them some [support] because they definitely had a lot of stress with the job and their duty situations that they responded [to].Our interviews echoed prior research that engineering
inform the development of a model or framework that organizes factors thatinfluence success in educational aspirations (shown in Figure 1 below).This model highlights sociocultural Figure 1. Framework for Educational Aspirationsexperiences and validating experiences ascritical to a positive higher experience forAmerican Indian women.The themes presented in the findings of theirstudy were based on n=18 returned surveyswith multiple choice and open-ended questionsrelated to 1) Honoring Family, 2) SocialModels, 3) Encouragement and Support, 4)Values and Attributes, 5) Service, 6) Learning,7) Hard Work and 8) Self-efficacy. Theyhighlight the interconnectedness of individualwomen’s lives and conclude that theinterviewed women’s voices
explore each of these themes in the following sections: Ability to learn the material. The theme of “My ability to learn the material” was a concernfor the 90.9% of participants. This finding illustrates students’ learning styles and preferencesregarding the most effective way to engage and learn course material. It also highlights thechallenges associated of adjusting rapidly to a new learning modality. Confidence in Class. The theme of “Confidence in Class” was a concern for 75.8% ofparticipants. This finding helps to highlight students’ concern regarding their own self-efficacy tolearn course material in this new learning setting. It can be argued that a large part of student’soverall confidence in class originates from
for mentoring and to providefaculty training in optimizing mentoring relationships for mentors with their mentees at all levelsof their research careers. The Academy is based on the research mentoring curriculum, ”EnteringMentoring”, an evidence-based curriculum from the Center for the Improvement of MentoredExperiences in Research (CIMER) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Course topicsinclude aligning expectations, assessing understanding, promoting professional development,cultivating ethical behaviors, promoting mentee research self-efficacy, enhancing work-lifeintegration, and articulating a mentoring philosophy and action plan. 37Plans for Evaluation and ExpansionWe are currently designing a peer-to-peer mentoring certification
with new and innovative solutions[37]; iv) self-management and self-development, understood as the capacity to work autonomouslyin a self-motivated and self-controlled manner [36]; and v) systemic thinking, i.e. the ability torecognize how a system functions [36] to make decisions about their elements and interactions[38].However, is possible to synthesize 21st century skills and positive attitudes toward STEM asengagement, interest, and self-efficacy [39], into STEM skills such as i) critical thinking, ii)problem-solving, iii) research, iv) creativity, v) communication, and vi) collaboration [28]. TheseSTEM skills can be complemented by the competency of computational thinking, which is veryimportant for STEM learning [40] and involves some
Research Workshop has been provided by the Kern Family Foundation.Dr. Doug Melton and Dr. Meg West provided thoughtful feedback about the workshop development overmany years. Special thanks to all the participants who took time to take our survey and learn with us!References[1] L. O. Flowers, “Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences at HBCUs,” J. Educ. Soc. Policy, vol. 8, no. 1, p. 33, 2021, doi: 10.30845/jesp.v8n1p4.[2] A. Carpi, D. M. Ronan, H. M. Falconer, and N. H. Lents, “Cultivating minority scientists: Undergraduate research increases self-efficacy and career ambitions for underrepresented students in STEM,” J. Res. Sci. Teach., vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 169–194, Feb. 2017, doi: 10.1002/tea.21341.[3] M. Villarejo, A. E. L
strategies include using real-world contexts, and in the learningdesign of the study, students would be working on a real-world research project with real data.Zimmerman and Moylan [18] provide a cyclical phase model of self-regulation that maps theseconstructivist strategies to different phases in self-regulation, as shown in Figure 1. It presents acyclic feedback loop between the forethought phase, performance, and self-reflection phase. Figure 1. Cyclic Phase Model of Self-RegulationThe first phase, forethought is a preparation step for self-regulated learning. It involves taskanalysis through goal setting and strategic planning and Self-motivation through self-efficacy,outcome expectations, task interest, and goal
. The goal is to provide insights that will help framefuture studies of students who do not value engaging with or belonging in their engineeringprograms to the detriment of their professional formation as engineers.Literature ReviewSense of Belonging and Persistence At a fundamental level, humans have the desire to belong. The desire for interpersonalrelationships has an additive effect on that desire. Previous research on students’ academicsuccess has primarily focused on the interaction between students’ sense of belonging,motivation, self-efficacy, and perception of curriculum [1], [2]. On the college campus andwithin STEM classrooms, several characteristics are known to commonly exhibit a positiveeffect on students’ sense of belonging
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debugging has also been tested, finding relationships betweensystematic debugging exposure and students' self-efficacy and effective debugging ([22], [23]).Debugging and students’ performancePrevious research has established the complexity and multiple factors that influence studentsdebugging performance. To date, several studies have focused on how the program errormessage influences students’ skills and strategies to debug [24], the time novice students take todebug a problem by using counting error compilers [13], identifying how visual attention couldalso impact students debugging performances [25] and the type of high or lower achieversinfluence students’ strategies and performance on debugging [13], [26].Studies have shown that students spend
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and financial aidplanning, but also self efficacy, transfer shock and feelings of connectedness. As such, apartnership with UWT has great potential to increase the effectiveness of interventions initiated atHighline by leveraging the knowledge, data, and resources of both institutions and boostingstudent retention rates and reducing graduation timelines at the 2-year and 4-year levels.Guided Pathways Implementation at Highline: In April 2019, Highline joined a cohort ofWashington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC) in implementingGuided Pathways. As a student-centered framework designed to increase and diversify thestudents and communities accessing and earning high-value credentials, using data and solicitingstudent
include subscales that assess research abilities, leadership potential, self-efficacy,sense of one’s identity as a scientist, plans to attend graduate school, plans to pursue engineering,mentorship connections, attitudes toward research, etc. The conclusions drawn from the SageFoxassessment report are presented in this section and available on the program website [15].REU HighlightsThe data collected during the four years of the program shows that the program has beensuccessful during the pandemic and beyond. The results from the survey suggest that there hasbeen an increase in STEM knowledge, confidence, and high intention to pursue engineering as adegree. Even though the program has been successful and met its goals, the data results showthat