acceptance that a student receives from variouspersonal stakeholders, such as family, peers, and mentors. Finally, competence/performance isthe closest construct to a student’s feeling of self-efficacy and indicates their level ofself-confidence in their knowledge and abilities in computing. While the four sub-constructsmeasure distinguishable aspects of a student’s sense of identity in a field, they also influence eachother in a dynamic manner based on a student’s unique environment and context [24], a facet weindicate with bi-directional arrows.Students’ computing identity has previously been used as a measure of persistence [27] and alsotheir career choice [24]. We applied the computing identity framework to study students’ ties tothe discipline
intheir studies than students who procrastinate or have no planning and revisionstage for their writing (Sverdlik et al. 2018, p. 377-378). Finally, student successis tied to their academic identity (Sverdlik et al. 2018, p. 378-380). Students whoshow self-efficacy, that is confidence in their work, leads to positive outcomesin career trajectory and more competence in core abilities (Sverdlik et al. 2018,p. 379-380). This is also tied to student’s self-worth. Student’s who feel successas a result of their accomplishments as a graduate student are more likely tohave continued motivation (Sverdlik et al. 2018, p. 379-380). This can also,however, cause major determent to some students. Students whose identity istied to academic success and then find
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a professional educationcomponent consistent with the institution's mission and the program's educational objectives andpromotes diversity, equity, and inclusion awareness for career success [3]. "The need to feelbelongingness and linked with others" is how relatedness is defined (Baumeister and Leary [8]).According to studies, learning environments that provide a sense of connectedness to peers,parents, and instructors can enhance motivation and improve academic results (Ryan, et al. [9]).Self-efficacy, engagement, interest in school, higher grades, and retention have all beenconnected to feelings of relatedness, which are measured in terms of "school environment" andinstructor-student connections (Inkelas, et al. [10]). Research on
thatschool teachers and leaders both found ways to implement integrated STEM within their schoolsystems as a result of participation in the professional development offered on STEM integration.Additionally, the authors found that participants increased their self-efficacy for STEMintegration, but the emphasis of the work from Havice et al. (2019) was on classroomimplementation and teacher experiences. Therefore, while administrators were included in theprofessional development and the study data for some measures, they were excluded formeasures of classroom implementation and there was a lack of measures directly related toadministrator outcomes specifically, suggesting a need to explore administrator experiencesfurther as they seek to bring STEM
change.Teachers play a significant role in helping students develop an awareness of, and interest indifferent career opportunities [1]. They also help shape a students’ self-efficacy and expectationswhich can have a significant impact on the student’s choice of careers [2]. Unfortunately, manyteachers either have little knowledge of the field of engineering or have misconceptions about thefield such as failing to identify engineering as a career that helps humanity [3-4]. EngineeringCommunity Engaged Learning (CEL) is an excellent way to help teachers understand howengineering, as well as other STEM careers, can have a high level of community engagementwhile using creativity to help humanity.For the 2022-2023 Global STEM cohort, RET participants engaged
. Although the formal definition of CURES varies across the literature, the integrationof experiential learning opportunities organized around a motivating research question aregenerally common across implementations. CURES are a uniquely valuable intervention for deployment at two-year institutions, wheremany students face restrictions which prohibit their participation in extracurricular activities. Theimplementation of CURES at two-year institutions presents unique challenges versus universitiesdue to the lack of existing research infrastructure. In addition, many students attending two-yearinstitutions are from historically marginalized groups, and may have limited resource awarenessand self-efficacy as it relates to performing research
kid. Although they can be talkative and make ill-advised jokes, the kids will find you a fun person if you run along with them instead of alwaysdiscouraging them. Kids like and respect fun people, which helps them pay attention to you moreas a mentor." An increase in scientific knowledge and development of character boost kids' self-efficacy in STEM and computing, which is the main purpose of this NSF-funded project. 13 ConclusionOur Mentor Corps program was developed to support teaching computational content for collegestudent mentors to collaborate with intermediate schoolteachers in the classroom
micro-certificate in the professoriate, and led several educational experiences for underrepresented high school students. Amanda plans to pursue a higher education teaching career and research strategies to promote active learning and improve self-efficacy amongst engineering students.Dr. Raj R. Rao, University of Arkansas Dr. Raj R. Rao is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Biological Engineering, as an ABET Program Evaluator; and is a member of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Education Committee. His research interests are in the broad area of cellular engineering that utilize
for underrepresented students in undergraduatescience, technology, engineering, and math," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,vol. 117, no. 12, pp. 6476-6483, Mar. 2020.[17] S. Freeman, S. L. Eddy, M. McDonough, M. K. Smith, N. Okoroafor, H. Jordt, and M. P.Wenderoth, "Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, andmathematics," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., vol. 111, no. 23, pp. 8410-8415, Jun. 2014.[18] C. J. Ballen, C. Wieman, S. Salehi, J. B. Searle, and K. R. Zamudio, "Enhancing diversity inundergraduate science: Self-efficacy drives performance gains with active learning," CBE—LifeSciences Education, vol. 16, no. 4, ar56, 2017.[19] P. Gurin, B. A. Nagda, and X. Zúñiga, Dialogue Across
skills and motivation might limit students' outcomes in capstone design projects. The lack of the supervisors' practical communication skills ultimately affected the students' motivation to develop the projects and apply the required project management techniques. In other words, if students sense that their opinions are respected, they will feel more empowered and motivated. Similar results are observed by the National Institute of Construction Management and Research and Walden University [13,14]. Along with motivation, social-cognitive theory suggests that effective communication affects students' deep thinking and motivation [15]. Hence, learners with strong self-efficacy are more likely to engage in activities that
is the S-SMART Summer Internship Program, which offerscommunity college students who have limited previous research experience meaningfulopportunities to engage in engineering research with close mentorship from faculty and peermentors, as well as gain hands-on teamwork experience. Research has shown that closementorship and teamwork can enhance academic performance, increase retention and persistenceto graduation, improve confidence and self-efficacy, and enhance career preparation, particularlyamong URM students [13]–[15]. The eight-week summer internship program aims to have ten totwelve community college students from diverse backgrounds in group research projects acrossseveral engineering disciplines within research labs at SFSU School
development, and student learning in integrated STEM environments. Dr. Alemdar is currently PI and co-PI on various NSF funded projects. Her expertise includes program evaluation, social network analysis and quantitative methods such as Hierarchical Linear Modeling, and Structure Equation Model- ing. She received her Ph.D. in Educational Policy, with a concentration in Research, Measurement, and Statistics, from Georgia State University.Dr. Michael Helms, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Michael Helms is a Research Scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where his research focused on improving design creativity.Dyanne Baptiste
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highschool internships that engage students in authentic STEM environments [2], [3]. High schoolinternships are especially impactful for underrepresented minority (URM) female students inSTEM [1]. Prior research has shown that these internship opportunities can increase students’sense of self-efficacy in STEM fields, give students insight into career paths they might nototherwise be exposed to, and increase students’ interest in and pursuit of STEM-related majorsand careers.The home environment can also provide opportunity for students to increase and strengthenSTEM identity and the consideration of STEM careers. A model for STEM identity has beendeveloped as a framework building on disciplinary studies and includes the interplay of threeelements
-school outreachprogram in engineering design for middle school students (ages 11-14), and how instructorsviewed the successes, challenges, and tensions of their students’ laboratory experiences. A challenge associated with NGSS and ASEE implementation is the meaningful integrationof science and engineering knowledge and skills in precollege teaching and learning. Researchhas identified issues that science teachers encounter with integrated STEM instruction, includinglack of relevant content knowledge, lack of administrative support, and weak self-efficacy inengineering pedagogy [4,10,11]. Research in STEM integration education has suggested thatinnovative instructional models and curricular resources are needed to demonstrate how scienceand
ongoing research, implementing favorable employmentlaws, and ensuring women's voices are heard in decision-making [11]. According to Howe-Walsh et al. [17], women in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) prioritizework prestige in their career choices, regardless of whether they work for a public or privatecompany. This preference for work prestige may challenge women who value balancing theirprofessional and personal goals, as it could limit their career opportunities [17]. Researchers have identified several factors and challenges that affect women's entry,persistence, or departure from STEM fields. For instance, one study found that these factorsincluded the relationship between self-efficacy and competence, religious and personal
might be better retained if their social-cognitive disposition with respect to attritionwas supported by social-cognitive skills and strategies adapted from SOB and SRL models.However, of the many interventions currently being employed, most focus on improving thematch of the student to the institution and major, and specific core competencies. While this doesrecognize a cognitive element of student success (i.e., how a student thinks about their majorimpacts their decision to remain in it), it does not fully support SOB. Although they are aminority, there interventions at the college level for engineering majors that specifically addressSOB [18] or self-efficacy [14]. Self-efficacy is an important but small element of these socio-cognitive
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pursue a professional computing industry careerpathway [11]. Factors hindering computing students from pursuing internships are studentinterest in internships include, lower self-efficacy, the challenging application process forinternships, and other priorities such as family, focusing on their GPA, etc. [12]. Less frequently,students may consider going into business for themselves as an entrepreneurship pathway. Jobmarket conditions and socioeconomic status are primary factors influencing the students’decision to pursue entrepreneurship [4], [13]. Finally, though perhaps not exhaustively, studentscan consider attending graduate school and conducting research through a master’s or Ph.D.degree. Students’ interest and actual enrollment in graduate
et al. observed to students involved in group work. Lin andYou [14] developed the Predicting Teamwork Performance system to identify functional rolesautomatically. In their work, students agreed (60%) that the strengths and role assignment systemhelped them cooperate with team members effectively and distribute the workload appropriately.Deemer et al. [12] studied how an energy science intervention caused an increase in leadershipand teamwork, increasing the self-efficacy of students. Martin et al. [16] showed the importanceof understanding justice through the teaching materials that they developed. They studied theimpact of teaching students how to work effectively in teams for the problem-based learningintensive BS Biomedical Engineering
programs, conceptual difficulties with core courses, a lack of self-efficacy or self-confidence, inadequate high school preparation, insufficient interest in or commitment to thefield of engineering or a change in career goals, and racism and/or sexism” [2]. Retentionprograms that directly address these attritional factors may be more successful.Common interventions have included faculty development, support programs,remedial/developmental course work, learning communities, and intervention programs tailoredto individual students [3]. Of a survey of twenty-five studies that related to improving studentretention, many potential actions with evidence of success were identified—among whichlearning communities, support groups or networks, and student
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. This experience has sparked my passion towards helping develop technology that has a meaningful real-world application, and further solidified my intention to pursue bioinformatics or computational biology in grad school and as a career. Spring 2022Evaluation ResultsThe Center for Evaluating the Research Pipeline part of the Computing Research Associationevaluates the ERSP program every year. Their first evaluation of ERSP at UIC [6], showed thatERSP students had increased levels of experience with research, working with colleagues onresearch, analyzing data, and presenting research reports, six months after completing ERSP. Otherstudent measures such as self-efficacy and sense of belonging did not show a statistical
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rural children includes recognizing the importance ofconnecting the students’ experiential habitats in their engineering learning and for their sense ofself-development [24]. Similarly, in the LED program, a priority in the curriculum is to supportstudents’ engineering identities and their self-efficacy related to science and engineering.In Practice: Our Work Thus Far for 2D/3D Modeling Curricula DevelopmentDeBoer Lab and partners are collaborating in designing an assessment to recognize the priorskills of the students in their ability to communicate ideas for 2D/3D modeling and prototyping.This assessment would support future work in designing a curriculum with activities for studentsto aid their engineering problem-solving process with 2D/3D
benefits of peer-enhanced learning, moredeveloped evaluative skills, a greater sense of belonging, improved self-efficacy beliefs, andhigher levels of intrinsic academic motivation. The merging of the two evidence-basedassessment approaches promises a scalable assessment modality hybridizing the pedagogicaldimensions of the former two assessment practices. Our study of students’ surveyed perceptionsabout peer oral exams offers perspectives on the qualities and potential role of peer oral exams ineducational practice and suggests directions for future educational research.IntroductionThe rapidly evolving professional ecosystem of the Fourth Industrial Revolution is placing highdemands on STEM education at an unprecedented rate [1], [2]. Principle
community.In this context, collaborative learning pedagogies represent an opportunity to increase students’motivation and support students’ development of effective learning strategies. In content-heavybiomedical engineering courses, high-stakes assessments such as tests or exams often elicitanxiety, low expectancy to succeed, and low self-efficacy for students, corresponding todecreased motivation. Collaborative testing has been demonstrated to improve students’performance [8]–[10], leading to the hypothesis that collaborative testing also improves students’perceptions of their learning environment based on development of effective learning strategies.Collaborative testing has been reported to improve retention and recall (e.g., [7]–[10
” methods [11,15]. Active frameworks have many benefits suchas: student preference [16], self-efficacy [17], and student engagement [18]; all of which contribute to theclassroom climate. Perhaps the most popular method for active learning in recent engineering educationliterature is the inverted or flipped classroom where lectures are moved outside the class time [12-13]. Ameta-analysis by Lo and Hew [19] involving 29 engineering education studies concluded that flippedclassrooms promote student achievement with evidence suggesting that self-paced learning before classand increased problem-solving during class were the predominant reasons [20]. Another systematic reviewby Karabulut-Ilgu et al. [21] on the flipped classroom highlighted the following