probably start on this assignment earlier so I could focus on it more; it just happened to come at a period of a lot of assignments and I wasn’t able to start earlier. • However, from the next assignment forward, we will brainstorm and create a plan of working before the due date so that we do not have to rush. • We will try to meet with the professor beforehand as well to make sure the expectations for the assignment are clear and we know how to properly complete the assignment.4.3 Student Suggestions for Continuous ImprovementWhen implementing a change in your course for the first time, it’s important to collect feedbackfrom students and reflect on opportunities to improve in subsequent course
followed the same detailed grading rubric, grading styles (e.g., being more liberal withpartial credit) could potentially have affected the results. Further, while comparing metrics fromthe TRAD with the AL and AL+BT groups, it is not clear if the actual Bloom’s Taxonomyquestions or the method of delivery of the questions (i.e., active learning) influenced studentperformance. In the following semester, the authors plan to deliver the targeted Bloom’sTaxonomy questions without active learning by eliminating the collaborative in-class activities,describing answers to the higher-order questions as part of the lecture, and having the‘understand’, ‘analyze’, and ‘evaluate’ questions as part of the homework and quizzes. Bycomparing student performance
engineering in undergraduate engineering through asocial justice lens. Future work needs to continue to investigate the challenges and benefits tosuch integration from the perspectives of the students and the instructors, which we plan topursue through future empirical work. The papers that we focused on in this review containthorough descriptions of the development and implementation of curriculum that integrate socialand technical aspects of engineering through a social justice lens, which is an essential first stepin working towards this goal. For example, Mejia et al. [23] describe in detail the developmentand implementation of two courses, and Hendricks and Flores’ [34] described in detail thecurricular materials that they used. While Mejia et
the near future to obtain a “seat at the table,” it gives me hope that thereare also several dialogues happening to ensure a right step forward in terms of gender equity. Ininstitutions and workspaces in recent times, there have been multiple dialogues and in some casesratification of contracts to ensure an expansion in the paid parental leave, and this step woulddefinitely reduce barriers for early career womxn who are planning on starting a family. Also,there are a lot of free resources available for those who want to educate themselves and practiceinclusivity in their workspace. Additionally, I think it is important to create initiatives (industrybased fellowship/internship opportunities to pursue higher studies) that encourage more womxn
Paper ID #37635Examining the Impact of Introductory Mathematics Courses onUndergraduate Students’ Desire to Pursue a STEM MajorSydney Hunt, Duke University Sydney Hunt is a Reginaldo Howard Memorial Scholar at Duke University (Class of 2023). She is ma- joring in Electrical/Computer Engineering and Computer Science with a concentration in Artificial Intel- ligence and Machine Learning. She is also minoring in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies. Syd- ney plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Electrical/Biomedical Engineering post-graduation while continuing to be heavily involved in organizations dedicated to mentoring and
asengineering learners and educators as well as their understanding of the importance of communication indiverse engineering teams.Table 2 below shows the overall structure of the interview protocol for both student and facultyparticipants. The table also shows the relationship between the questions asked for each group in order tosubstantiate evidence of similarities and differences between the two groups, as well as links between theinterview questions and the research questions. 5. Plans for data analysisWe have concluded the data collection for this research and are currently in the process of analyzing theinterview data. This qualitative study will use coding practices derived from grounded theory (Saldaña,2016). After segmenting the data, we
recommend the following: • Gain familiarity with basics of MATLAB and/or Python programming. This could be through prior experience, a workshop such as those offered through AIChE or Software Carpentry, or through the self-paced resources for Python [40, 41, 49-55] and MATLAB [49-52, 56] (annotated in Table 1). • Access our workshop materials online [1], particularly our library of interactive coding templates. • Work through Active learning exercise 1 (described above) to learn how to create a MATLAB Live Script or Jupyter Notebook. • Work through Active learning exercise 2 (described above) to make a simple lesson plan in a MATLAB Live Script or Jupyter Notebook. • Skim through our library
Diversity Program,” presented at the 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Jun. 2017. Accessed: Feb. 12, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/fostering-an-asset-mindset-to-broaden-participation-through-the-transf ormation-of-an-engineering-diversity-program[10] M. J. Graham, J. Frederick, A. Byars-Winston, A.-B. Hunter, and J. Handelsman, “Increasing Persistence of College Students in STEM,” Science, vol. 341, no. 6153, pp. 1455–1456, Sep. 2013, doi: 10.1126/science.1240487.[11] K. R. Schneider, A. Bickel, and A. Morrison-Shetlar, “Planning and Implementing a Comprehensive Student-Centered Research Program for First-Year STEM Undergraduates,” J. Coll. Sci. Teach., vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 37–43, 2015
) that is an API used tocontrol radio equipment via a computer interface [47]. These software are controlled by theSatNOGS network through a terminal-based boot on the Raspberry Pi. There are other softwareincorporated into the network to demodulate some of the different types of data collected byground stations. The software can also be used to demodulate data on the student end. TheSatNOGS OS allows it to be remotely accessed, using the Raspberry Pi’s IP address, to manuallyset observations.4.4 Laboratory ActivitiesThe laboratory activities were designed to fulfill all the learning objectives previouslymentioned. There are five planned laboratory activities with each activity building upon the nextand becoming more open-ended. Specifically
with each standard. These boxes closely resemble the format of those created for the NGSS [Fig. 8]. • Curriculum Frameworks: Provides a roadmap for curriculum development.• Instructional Resources: Examples of lesson plans aligned with the new standards, teaching observation rubrics, and other resources to assist educators and school districts.• Curriculum Resources: Vetted resources from national standards documents aimed to assist educators and school districts in developing standards-aligned curriculum while also meeting the needs specific to their community and students.• Research Resources: Articles and reports related to NGSS and STEL research studies.• Professional Learning: Recorded training sessions covering
Halston’suse of “praise” equalizes the voice and input of a lower-status student relative to a higher-statusstudent. Deliberate use of praise to boost self-esteem requires much thought on an LA's partbecause they need to be attentive to the motivations they bring into their instructional moves andmake sure that they recognize specific competencies in assigning praise (as opposed to generic,effusive praise).Understanding how LAs construct and understand what status-based inequalities look like withinthe classroom and how they plan to navigate them has important implications for interpretingtheir role as potential status interventionists. LAs are mediators in various aspects of a student’slearning, and their roles as agents within the classroom activity
changes. The iteration aims to ground our work in praxis [12] and transform thecurriculum through reflective action.Conceptualizing the engineering curriculumWe would like to start by clarifying what we mean by a curriculum because the definitions ofa curriculum range from everything that happens in a course [13] to a plan for learning [14]to the materials used for teaching [15], [16]. The word curriculum is often not even defined inthe literature, assuming a shared understanding of this word. However, it is crucial to definecurricula since they are not ahistorical or apolitical. Like knowledge, curricula are sociallyconstructed and reflect the ideologies of those in power [15]–[18]. Dei [18] insists that thecurriculum is “a social construction
just always have to take a second and then engage (in) teacher mode.Author 1 described a difficult conversation with a student who was not meeting up with theiracademic expectations halfway into the semester (1AA). Because this student cried during thisconversation, she had to be empathic and sensitive while offering advice about changing theiracademic outcome. Both authors also recalled the challenge of effectively communicating valuablelearning objectives to the students through conversations and the types of assessments andstructure of the classroom (2AA, 2DM).Flexibility: This sub-theme describes the instructor’s willingness to deviate from set plans andadapt in real-time to unexpected situations
observe teams as they were creating their flowcharts, the rationale for studentdecisions in creating the flowchart are not always clear. We plan to collect process data in futureresearch to better understand the students decision making when producing the flowcharts. FindingsThis study explored the extent to which undergraduate students developed CT skills whenengaging in a physics lab integrated with ED and CT tasks. The six teams included in this studydemonstrated development across four facets of CT (i.e., decomposition, abstraction, algorithmdesign, and debugging) while working on designing their flowcharts. The following paragraphsdescribe evidence for how teams developed within each CT facet
. Similarly, ACCESS students appear to haveincreased their confidence in being able to approach a faculty or staff member to get assistancewith academic problems between the 2021 and 2022 surveys. This result may be explained bythe changing population of ACCESS students. All 2021 survey respondents were in their firstyear of the ACCESS program, while among 2022 survey respondents some students were intheir first and other in their second year of the ACCESS program. The variation of time in theACCESS program, along with the natural maturity gained by completing another year of collegeand life, may explain some of the increase.Future work may include augmenting the survey with additional questions related to the sense ofbelonging. Furthermore, we plan
agreed to take part.Moreover, no information was collected regarding their ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, etc.,which would have broadened the study and helped to explain the sense of belonging of theparticipants in greater depth.In the future, the objective is to conduct interventions in the classroom in order to investigatehow sense of belonging changes as a result of these interventions. The planned interventionsinclude increasing student-centered activities and promoting inclusion in the classroom throughawareness-raising workshops, among other similar initiatives. In addition, it is the intention ofthe authors of this study to design a pilot mentoring program with which to empower women CEstudents.AcknowledgementsThe authors would like
the classroom that can impact our class performance. If you would like to meet to discuss a plan moving forward in this course, please come to my office hours at your earliest opening or if they conflict with your schedule, please reach out to our assigned GTA for assistance.”12) Video Quizzes (podcasts)Video quizzes [21] offer students an opportunity to explain course concepts in their own words(podcast) with the option of preparing slides (video quiz). Students are at the center of the contentcreation. In this way, the students feel like engineers and are exploring their sense of belonging inthe engineering community.Portions of the Video Quizzes (podcasts) are adapted from projects described by Joseph P.Hoffbeck in
Paper ID #37342Talking Tech: How Language Variety in Engineering Curriculum InstructionCan Ease Delivery and Engage StudentsIngrid Scheel, Oregon State University Ingrid Scheel is a Project Instructor at Oregon State University. She works to teach from an integrated sociotechnical perspective in engineering science and design courses. Her focus is systems engineering and program management. Scheel has experience in small business strategic planning and risk assessment, designing and deploying fiber optic sensors and sensing systems, prototype development, instrumentation, data acquisition and analysis, and reporting
to communicate effectively. However, there arefewer centers catering specifically to the needs of engineering students [12] and resources areoften allocated to undergraduate writing instruction [7]. More importantly, the tutoring can bevery different between multilingual writers and English-native writers [13]. Silva [14] foundthat multilingual writers’ writing processes (planning, reviewing) and products (fluency,quality) were distinctive from their English-native peers. Moreover, for graduate studentswho need discipline-specific support, having a tutor with limited academic writing experiencein that field will likely face resistance for giving discipline-inappropriate advice [15]. As aresult of doubt in tutors’ domain-specific knowledge
yearsof teaching experience, and 28% having less than 10 years of teaching experience. While the vastmajority of the respondents taught engineering technical cores, 9% taught complementary studiescourses (i.e., humanities, social sciences, and business courses). Most of the respondents (>70%)were white and male.The interviews focused on the effective teaching practices that instructors had introduced from2020 to 2022, and their plans for future teaching. Of the 11 interviewees, three instructors taughtengineering courses but in different engineering fields while others were instructors who taughtcourses in other disciplines than engineering. We recruited most of these participants via aquestion in the instructor survey and a few from student
problemsthrough human action. Proponents of this Current focus on citizenship at both the local andglobal level, and use strategies like community projects, debates and action plans that actuallyencourage students to stand up for what is just. Educators may have concerns about exposingtheir ideology and political leanings in the classroom, creating some tension with respect to thisCurrent.STSE-Relevant Practices in Engineering educationIn reflecting on the nature of STSE as described above, and considering the integration withengineering, we might start with exploring the nature of the engineering profession, and how thattranslates to the engineering education context. In a critique of engineering education, Pawley(2019) suggested that engineering