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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Courses

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Jennifer Craig, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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teach and refine oral communicationskills of English language learners (ELL) at Skoltech, a Russian university. The objectivewas to develop disciplinary communication skills in English so that students could presenttheir engineering designs during a rapid prototyping project. A pre/post survey assessedchanges in self-efficacy as a measure of success in the instruction about, practice andperformance of oral presentations. The post-test survey showed a statistically significantincrease in self-efficacy for a majority of the students. Survey data combined with facultyobservation indicates that the communication pedagogy combined with practice waseffective in increasing self-efficacy and in facilitating and refining oral communication skillsfor the

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session I Curriculum

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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David W. Gatchell PhD, Northwestern University; Robert A Linsenmeier, Northwestern University; Robert L. Murphy, Northwestern University; Akinwale Oladotun Coker P.E., university of ibadan; Akinniyi A. Osuntoki, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

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occurring through theseexperiences. One potential solution to this problem is to use the reflections that we havecollected to date to identify what the participants have learned through each of their experiencesand what they would have liked to have learned but have not. These skills and concepts can beintegrated into a self-efficacy pre- and post-test survey instrument (see the work of McKennaand Hirsch10 for an example of a similar effort to measure learning of the design process byundergraduate engineering students). In addition to the summative reflections that we havecollected (i.e., reflections collected after the training has been completed), we shouldcomplement these with more frequent journaling of the experiences using prompts provided