statement to their peers of their academic failures.4 Students who are notconfident in their ability to perform well in a course are more likely to seek help than their moreconfident peers.7 A 2004 study done at Texas A&M University demonstrated that students whowere more engaged in supplemental instruction had significantly lower self-efficacy, butachieved higher final course grades.7The personality of the tutor is also an important factor students consider when seeking extrahelp.5 Students feel that traits associated with a good tutor are empathy, patience, sensitivity,diplomacy, friendliness, intuitiveness, supportiveness, responsiveness, and care.8 If students feelthat tutors are arrogant or not empathetic to their concerns, they are
, and 82 teachers completed a questionnaire concerning amount of homeworkassigned by teachers, portion of assignments completed by students, and attitudes abouthomework. Upon collection of student achievement measures, the authors found weak relationsbetween the amount of homework assigned and student achievement, and positive relationsbetween the amount of homework students completed and achievement, especially at uppergrades (6-12). Hoover-Dempsey et al.[16] reviewed research on parental involvement in studenthomework, and found that parents involve themselves in student homework because they believethat they should be involved, believe that their involvement will make a positive difference, andperceive that their children or children's
significant.There may also be differences between lateral and vertical transfer students in GPA and otherstudent outcomes. Specifically, in a study of one-time transfers who were non-science and non-professional majors, Kirk-Kuwaye and Kirk-Kuwaye15 found that vertical transfer students Page 23.39.5scored higher than lateral transfers on three out of four measures of engagement: active andcollaborative learning, a supportive campus environment, and enriching educational experiences.The lateral transfer students scored higher than vertical transfers on the student-facultyinteraction measure. The authors conclude that because of the inconsistency in culture
kit (http://www.pasco.com/). Calculate the bar forces of truss bridge under static loads. Measure the bar forces of truss bridge under static loads. Measure the bar forces of truss bridge under dynamic traffic loads. Compare the bar forces under static and dynamic loads. Prepare project report and presentation.Electrical Engineering Project: Mini TimerThe Electrical Engineering group project uses the BASIC Stamp Activity Kit from Parallax, Inc.(http://www.parallax.com/) to achieve the following objectives: Understand basic circuits principles. Understand circuit elements, symbols and diagrams. Design, build and test simple circuits. Understand the basics of microcontrollers. Learn concepts of
as microteaching) is a practice that is recommended by Prieto, Yamokoski, & Meyers(2007) for graduate student development because the practice helps increase TAs’ self-efficacy.21 Page 23.136.3During the 5-minute practice teaching, TAs plan & present a topic, reflect on their teaching withthe support of a trained facilitator (often a peer teaching mentor) and provide feedback to a smallgroup of their peers about their teaching. For students where English is their second language,we ask students to self-select into microteaching sessions where there is at least one facilitatorwho is trained to provide English language feedback and
mentors and mentees, not on any official recommendations or suggestions.While the mentors were generally positive and optimistic program participants, differences ininitial assumptions or assumed understanding of program expectations led to variedinterpretations of their self-efficacy as mentors. Early on, several mentors explained theirperspectives on the difficulties of being a mentor without a clearly established structure: “Since she [my mentee] can only work on my primary project, she’s just been reading papers that are way over her head and helping me order stuff. The phase my project has been in is not hands-on. This lack of flexibility has also made meeting with her a drain on my time…When structured well
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