Collection

2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Abdullah Konak; Sadan Kulturel-Konak

have a negative experience with teamwork (reverse coded) • I would rather work on team projects than on my own • I like to participate in teamwork • I am usually motivated to participate in teamworkIn order to measure their teamwork self-efficacy, students are asked to rate themselves usingfour-level Likert scales (1= Very Unconfident, 2=Unconfident, 3=Confident, 4= Very confident)with respect to the following teamwork skill, knowledge, and abilities. • Establishing specific team goals • Evaluating team progress toward each team goal • Providing feedback on the team or individual performance • Accepting feedback and criticism positively • Making adjustments based on the feedback • Defining tasks and clear task

Collection

2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Linda S. Hirsch

have become more rigorous with positive results. Girls who participated in theprograms have been found to have significantly more positive attitudes toward STEM,particularly engineering, significantly more knowledge about careers in engineering and whatengineers actually do compared to other students from similar backgrounds. Recent, morequalitative evaluations using the Draw an Engineer test to examine girls’ perceptions ofengineers including gender attributions and their own self-efficacy have found interesting andpositive results. Data from evaluations conducted during the last 6 years are being synthesized todemonstrate the positive and motivation effects programs of this type can have on young girls.The focus of the current paper is an