Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yue Bi, University of Virginia; Reid Bailey, University of Virginia; Michael C. Smith, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

feedback they received on their cases, and their generalexperiences with the course SYS 2001. Three major categories of surveys were used to assessstudents’ perceptions (timeline of the use of the technologies included in Figure 1): Page 24.547.7 Self-efficacy surveys were modified based on an instrument measuring engineeringdesign self-efficacy by Carberry and Lee24. The surveys were believed to identify students’self-concepts to engineering design tasks24. Students were asked to rate on a scale of 0-100their confidence, motivation, success, and anxiety in completing each of the 10 tasks whichrepresent a systems approach. Grading surveys

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pablo Biswas, Texas A&M International University; Runchang Lin, Texas A&M International University

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

questionnaire concerning amount of homework assigned by teachers, portion ofassignments completed by students, and attitudes about homework. Upon collection of studentachievement measures, the authors found weak relations between the amount of homeworkassigned and student achievement, and positive relations between the amount of homeworkstudents completed and achievement, especially at upper grades (6-12). Bempechat3 obtainedresearch on parental involvement in student homework, and found that parents involvethemselves in student homework because they believe that they should be involved, believe thattheir involvement will make a positive difference, and perceive that their children or children'steachers want their involvement. Unfortunately, the first