their curriculum, (2) both course and overall curriculum level assessments arepossible, where the assessment scores reflect the development on an absolute scale, and (3)instruments and rubrics can be upgraded over time to reflect the progress in the assessment ofspecific professional skills.The Model of Domain Learning (MDL) proposed by Alexander et al.1 is a learning theorycharacterized by the interrelations that exist between the learning-based constructs and theexperience-based stages in academic domains. In this study, the MDL based framework isapplied to develop assessment rubrics mapped to the interaction between the experience-basedstages and the learning-based components. The experience-based growth stages in ascendingorder of
the scheme to all the data. When compared,the internal consistency was over 90%, and further discussion introduced more refinements thatbrought the coders into nearly complete agreement. For instance, in discussing the codes fordrawbacks of participating in the project, the number of categories was reduced by combiningcomments about limited resources and being constrained by other teams’ decisions into theheading of “constraints.” The rich data generated illustrates these students’ impetus andprofessional development, as described in more detail below.Analysis and ResultsParticipantsTwenty-four TAs provided information about their involvement in developing the robot course.Their levels of experience varied, as reflected in Table 1. They also
tend to buy when stocks are higher than average and sell when stocks are at or near their lows.15 – 17, 26 There is evidence that fundamental analysis is linked to successful investing.27 – 29 In finance texts, this is presented as a violation of the semi-strong form of the efficient market hypothesis—all publicly available information is generally reflected in market prices. There is evidence that on average technical analysis (relying on past trends or patterns in stock prices) doesn’t support “beating the market.” In finance texts, this is presented as the weak form of the efficient market hypothesis is generally true—market prices generally reflect all information about stock price movements.28
. It has been suggested that advanced courses should begin by reviewing the informationfrom other courses that students will need and that instructors should design the course to“retroactively reinforce the consolidation of knowledge accumulated in previous courses.”6 Aspart of the poll conducted mid-semester by the TRC, students explained that the instructorsassumed they had more background knowledge than they did for certain graphs and equations.We recommend figuring out the essential pieces of background information and incorporating areview of them into the course.Student evaluations did not reflect quality of presentations. In an effort to help students paycloser attention to their peers’ presentations and provide peer feedback to
Group GeneralManager, System Z Pat Toole, an engineering alumnus, speak on leading engineers and IgnatiusSpirituality-appealing to some of our quiet engineering student leaders in formation. Thewisdom shared clearly touched chords with our engineering students as evidenced in theirwritten reflections and post discussions with staff in mentoring sessions.As we begin our Spring 2015 program, students are being encouraged to compete inmultidisciplinary teams on a specific pilot scope on Bowman Creek as a community projectsuggested by the South Bend Department of Public Works to apply both technical and leadershipskills. These projects have a broader range of stakeholders and more complex constraints thantypical academic projects, and participants
29 13 learning instead of learning in a group. Taking a course using group work was more difficult than taking an 18 12 instructor-directed course. *Percentages include students who responded “Agree” and “Strongly Agree” on a 6-point Likert-type scale. As noted in Table 4, students reported perceptions of group learning in a flippedclassroom to support their development of professional skills. Student’s perceived the flippedclassroom to foster and refine interpersonal skills (70% Fall; 75% Spring) and reflect authenticreal world environments (63% Fall; 64% Spring) they will be exposed to in their future
moderate positiverelationship between the variable of Ease of Use and Behavior. In other words, if students findthe usage of a smartphone is easy, they are more willing to use a smartphone in classroom. H7. There is a positive significant relationship between Usefulness and BehaviorThe perception of Ease of Use is another internal factor that reflects the individual willingness toadapt or perform a task if the person feels performing that specific task is easy. Table 13 presentsthe results of the correlation analysis between two factors of perceived Usefulness and Behavior. Correlations Usefulness Behavior Usefulness
(%) Treatment B 40 30 20 10 0 0 1 2 3 4 >4 Lab Periods Student was Leader Figure 1: Laboratory Session LeadershipOver 50 % of Treatment B students never led a lab. Surprisingly, almost 25 % of Treatment Astudents also never led, indicating that this requirement should be emphasized more in the future.This was reflected in one of the focus groups for Treatment A in which students noted “We werenot as successful at sticking to just our roles
challenging problems that areauthentic, curriculum-based, and often interdisciplinary. Learners decide how to approach aproblem and what activities to pursue. They gather information from a variety of sources andsynthesize, analyze, and derive knowledge from it. Their learning environment is inherentlyvaluable because it's connected to something real and involves adult skills such as collaborationand reflection. At the end, students demonstrate their newly acquired knowledge and are judgedby how much they've learned and how well they communicate it. Throughout this process, theteacher's role is to guide and advise, rather than to direct and manage, student work. PBL is alsoa model that organizes learning around projects. According to the definitions
the studentswith the higher incoming confidence, regardless of tasks completed). Page 26.1328.14AcknowledgmentsWe are grateful for support provided by the National Science Foundation under EEC-0953698.Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are thoseof the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References1. Bandura A. Self-efficacy: toward a unifying theory of behavioral change. Psychol Rev. 1977;84(2):191-215.2. Vogt C. Change: Motivational Factors for Women in Engineering: Self-Efficacy and Academic Self- Confidence.; 2005.3. Vogt CM
technicalities such as spelling or grammar. Instead, focus your writing process on your personal reflections. If you have any questions, please let me know and I will be glad to assist you.The first page of the activity listed 12 broad values not directly related to academic performance:being good at art; creativity; relationships with family and friends; government or politics;independence; learning and gaining knowledge; athletic ability; belonging to a social group(such as your community, racial group, or school club); music; career; spiritual or religiousvalues; and a sense of humor. The instructions asked students to circle 2-3 values that are ofpersonal importance.Page 2 of the activity asked students to write a few sentences
. (ABET 3b, 3e) • Reflection: Critically reflect utilizing multiple forms of communication (oral presentation, poster presentation and formal report writing) (ABET 3e, 3g) • Communication: Communicate ideas/concepts to audiences in multiple cultures. (ABET 3g, 3h) • Collaboration: Effectively collaborate in multidisciplinary teams of students, faculty, staff, and outside constituents (ABET 3d)During a typical course, there can be quite a bit of interaction between students with differentcultural and social backgrounds. However, these interactions are set in the context of anacademic location (in this case, Cambridge, MA or Hong Kong). Very few of the engineeringstudents at Harvard and Hong
thinking about what they are doing.” While EET course are traditional hands-on with the“doing” part well emphasized – the “thinking” part quite often is not well explored. An instructorinformed and educated in active learning can incorporate teaching mechanisms to explore the“thinking” and additional engagement of students.2.1 Student’s Preparation for Active LearningIt is a good practice for instructors to talk to students in the beginning of the course to brieflyexplain the type of active learning approaches that will be used in class, setting up instructors’expectations, and emphasize that the active learning approaches used in class will be reflected inquizzes, exams, homework, lab reports, and other assignments.9 One suggested starting point
study. Note that Likert scale items allow for both agreement and disagreement.Table 3 below contains sample survey items for the three aspects under study. The “H6” itemrelates to student motivation (aspect 1), the “SE2” item relates to perceived software engineeringlearning (aspect 2) and the “G2” item relates to impact on major and career plans (aspect 3). Thesurvey items are worded so that the positive outcome, Ha, will be reflected by student agreement(“agree” or “strongly agree”) with each statement. ID Item H6 Working with an H-FOSS community to develop a project has increased my interest in computing. SE2 I am comfortable that I could participate in the planning and development of a real-world software project. G2
example.The overarching purpose of the landscape analysis process is to have teams consider thestrengths and gaps on their campuses. This process provides team members with a sharedunderstanding of the unique opportunities and challenges on their campus, and forms afoundation on which to develop plans for growing their entrepreneurial ecosystem.The tool was originally designed as a spreadsheet for teams to document “assets” on theircampus (e.g., courses, extra-curricular offerings, spaces, champions). The tool alsodefined the terms “innovation”* and “entrepreneurship”† to support shared understanding.Finally, the tool guided teams in reflecting on various dimensions of their schools’ecosystem as a whole – the balance between electives and required
teachers agreed,the degree of learning was not reflected in the assessment scores. Furthermore, althougheducators felt that the curriculum had helped their students learn engineering design throughhands-on activities, student results did not show increases in learning of the Engineering DesignProcess. This suggests that more explicit instruction in science and programming content and theengineering design process may be required for deeper learning.IntroductionRobotics is a timely, relevant and exciting field that incorporates a very broad spectrum ofengineering, science, and information technology disciplines. Robotics curricula have beenwidely used in both formal classroom instruction and out-of-school contexts and at many gradelevels to engage
required to maintain a log book recording the design process, as well as their thoughts and reflections. • At the end of the semester students a required to submit a portfolio of their work & meet with the professor for evaluation. • The design teams are formed from students with varying interests and D Team Work discipline choices. This combination of ideas contributes to the strength of the projects. • Teams are self-directed • Deliverables were intended to
Students specifically mentioned splitting up projects into pieces and never necessarilyworking together as a team. The delegation of tasks occurred in such a way that limitedteammate interactions. This reflects a lack of relatedness, neglecting the process of workingtogether to integrate individual aspects of the project and sharing knowledge. In essence, teammembers did not engage in teamwork; instead, they completed what amounts to individualprojects. In fact, the following student quotes depict teamwork as a last resort or even go as far asexpressing an interest in not working together at all. In some instances, groups assigned one specific team member the individual task of“putting all the pieces together.” Interestingly, in the quote
and Kitchener’s suggestion that interview and essayapproaches to assessment (rather than multiple choice tests and questions with definite answers) Page 26.255.11are preferable13. Neither group has explicitly suggested an approach that would allow theeducator to assess how students arrive at their conclusions. While the approach suggested bygroup I requires students to provide arguments for why they think a certain problem is a WSP, itdoes not require students to reflect on the process of identifying the problem and arguments forit’s description as a WSP. We suggest that this aspect could be added by asking students to alsoexplain to each
. Finally, the authors thank Dr.Julie Kalnin for conducting the focus group and overall program evaluation.This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under awardnumber DUE - 1317238 and is supported in part by funds given to the National ScienceFoundation by the Intel Foundation and the GE Foundation. Any opinions, findings, andconclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do notnecessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References 1. American Society for Engineering Education. 2012. Going the Distance: Best Practices and Strategies for Retaining Engineering. Engineering Technology, and Computing Students. http://www.asee.org/retention
responsible for thesuccess of the project even though a team failure may result in some self-flagellation. We often learnmost in failure and so do students. Sponsors have experienced failure also. Still the goal of Capstone isfor students to learn to apply design, and to expand their engineering knowledge, skills and abilities KSAsbeyond what they’ve learned in the classroom and that may involve failure on some level; the goal is notto induce failure. Let ‘em stumble. Let ‘em fall. Let ‘em pick themselves up. As a faculty advisor,guide them in reflecting on what happened and push them to excel.This guide is offered in the spirit of helping students and faculty excel in Capstone. This is the facultyversion. Use this in conjunction with the “Purple
reflects the physicist’s way ofunderstanding the world, so we should teach physics that way.The importance of nurturing a scientific curiosity and motivating young students’ understandingof science has been addressed for many years1 and that call invites everyone2. As Barak Obamarecently reinforced: “we want to make sure that those who historically have not participated inthe sciences as robustly -girls, members of minority groups here in this country- that they areencouraged as well”3. In this call, physics and mathematicians become the main filters of young Page 26.353.2students’ career decisions. We want them to select a program because it has
skills, the middleband (in bold) highlights design skills, and bottom portion (in italics) highlights communicationskills. Student and faculty perspectives were closely aligned. The client perspective wassimilar, but it reflected what was important in intermediate and final work products rather thanwhat transpired in day to day team activities. What was valued by students and faculty wassimilar to traditional capstone projects, but there was heavier weight given to thermodynamics,engineering economics, computer modeling, interaction with external stakeholders, and greater Page 26.357.15emphasis on technical presentations as well as report
question of how to improve the course wereindicated that the students thought the tests were too hard, which is not an unexpected responseto this type of question.IV. Analysis and DiscussionCircuits 1 MisconceptionsUsing Circuits Concept Inventory (CCI) items or other final exam questions can help assess howwell students have learned essential aspects of the subject material, but also can reveal wheremisconceptions remain. An incorrect response on one of these items can reflect the deficiency ofindividual students, or if it wider spread among a majority of students in the class, a deficiency inthe teaching method that needs to be addressed. Focusing first on the poorest results with CCIitems from the previous section reveals the following
the distance students, it was attributed to the fact that “every team member is a full-timeworking professorial”, as a result, “everyone pulled their own weight and contributed equally”.On the other hand, in the rest of locally distributed teams where distance students were mixedtogether, multiple distance students had reflected that their voices tend to be “easily missed if notneglected”, because “the online facet has many conveniences, but my physical presence isabsolutely lacking and it is therefore very difficult to influence any of the group's decisions”.And more than one distance students suggested that they need to work more diligent and behavemore proactively than the other on campus students.No significant difference was identified
these examples, bearing in mind the initial differences in their programmingproficiency. Their use was still found stimulating.Rationale for the study – The context of mathematics in engineering educationDesigning engineering education with mathematics and physics in the first two years of theprogram is not a law of nature. 4 It can hardly be argued that abstract mathematics is taught in theinitial stages of programs for pedagogical reasons. Rather, such a design reflects a Tayloristicview of industrial production transferred to education where context-free bits and pieces aredispensed by specialists to be assembled to a coherent whole in the end. 5 Most engineeringteachers claim that they need to build on a ”solid” mathematics and science base
practice may be a program, a product, or a process”In this research, the product is web-based engineering and technology curriculum. ActionResearch is specific to education and learning using web-based technology and applying it tothe engineering and technology curriculum. Even though Action Research is oftenmentioned as lacking a distinct theoretical base, it is a powerful tool in stimulating socialchange and exploring how to modify a situation or practice. Eileen Ferrance definition ofAction Research is, “It is a reflective process that allows for inquiry and discussion ascomponents of the “research.” Often, action research is a collaborative activity amongcolleagues searching for solutions to everyday, real problems experienced in schools
funded by the US National Science Foundation Division of UndergraduateEducation through grant numbers 1446319, 1446323 and 1446369. Any opinions, findings, andconclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do notnecessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.Bibliographic Information1. Olson, S. and D.G. Riordan, Engage to excel: Producing one million additional college graduates with degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Report to the President. 2012, Executive Office of the President, President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology: Washington, DC, USA.2. Rendon, L.I. and J.R. Valadez, Qualitative indicators of Hispanic student
the historical context of standard use industry sponsors were asked to reflect theirperceptions of how standards have changed throughout their career, Table 5.Table 5: Change of standard use through careerI just manage project design engineers or SMEs work with codes on projects I manage.Yes. Due mostly to project requirements. I’ve been working on larger projects with a muchmore rigorous QA program.Yes. The state requires new codes and standards be implemented 1 year after the new IBCcomes out. Methods of analysis use to be crude in modern times. They were designed to besolved using a slide rule. Most standards have been updated to allow FEA and other moresophisticated computational models, but they still lag behind. Additionally, materials
. Figure 1 and Figure 2 show snapshots of the concept test question and student responseson PollEverywhere.com from Graphical Communications, and Dynamics courses respectively.Figure 3 shows a snapshot of the open-ended question and student responses from ControlSystems. The lectures were punctuated by multiple-choice conceptual questions or open-endedquestions to test students’ understanding of the material. In the multiple-choice conceptualquestions, often the distracters (incorrect responses) reflect typical student misconceptions.These questions are good indicators of students’ conceptual understanding, especially infundamental courses. The open-ended questions provide the senior-level students an opportunityto improve their critical thinking