Conference Session

Construction 4: Construction Education Curriculum and Assessment

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ifte Choudhury, Texas A&M University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Construction

instructorsoften lower the rigor of teaching a course in an abbreviated semester that results in increasedstudent performance. But this was not the case for the present study; the syllabus, teaching method,and evaluation methods adopted by the instructor were exactly the same for both Spring andminimester sessions.A shortcoming of this study could be that it was not controlled for student demographics. However,the author did not observe any significant difference either in age or ethnic difference between thetwo groups of students, except for gender. The percentage of female students in the compressedsemesters was about 16 and that in the regular semesters was 10. But it is doubtful whether thisfactor would be responsible for enhanced student performance