Conference Session

Action on Diversity - Disability Experiences & Empathy

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fernando Garcia Gonzalez, Florida Golf Coast University

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students. While there aremany types of accommodations that can help an LD student, one common characteristic most allLD students have is that they require more time to assimilate any newly presented material. Thiscan present a problem if the active learning activity is immediately following the lecture. Forexample, the minute paper activity requires the student to write on the topic just covered for oneminute. Then present or otherwise submit the writing perhaps for a grade. A learning disabledstudent may not be able to acquire sufficient knowledge from the lecture part, in the time given,to be in a position to write such a piece. Furthermore, the process of writing itself may presentadditional problems as many types of learning disabilities

Conference Session

Action on Diversity - Supporting Students at Multiple Levels

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Tiago R Forin, Rowan University; Kauser Jahan P.E., Rowan University; Ralph Alan Dusseau P.E., Rowan University; Parth Bhavsar, Rowan University; Beena Sukumaran, Rowan University

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connected-automated Vehicle Technologies, Transportation Data Analytics, and Alter- native Fuel Vehicles. Dr. Bhavsar has published in peer reviewed journals such as the Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technology, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and the Environment and Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board. Dr. Bhavsar was pre- viously a postdoctoral fellow in a connected vehicle research program in the Glenn Department of Civil c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Paper ID #18938 Engineering at Clemson University, where he worked on

Conference Session

Action on Diversity - Disability Experiences & Empathy

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yvette Pearson Weatherton, Rice University; Renae Danielle Mayes, Ball State University; Carol Villanueva-Perez, Ball State University

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pipeline in three areas including gifted education, special education, and urban education.Ms. Carol Villanueva-Perez, Ball State University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Barriers to Persistence of Engineering Students with Disabilities: A Review of LiteratureAbstractUndergraduate student retention is dependent not only on academic aptitude, but also on non-academic factors, which include the ability to integrate fully into their academicenvironments. Non-academic factors are likely to more significantly impact the success ofstudents with disabilities compared to their peers who do not have disabilities, especially withinscience, technology, engineering, and

Conference Session

Action on Diversity - Disability Experiences & Empathy

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raja S Kushalnagar, Gallaudet University; Gary Walter Behm, RIT/NTID Center on Access Technology; Shareef Sayel Ali, NTID's ACE Innovaton Lab; Susie Michaela Harvey, REU-AMI; Karina G. Bercan, Simmons College

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also contributes to their lackof inclusion and sense of belonging. To a smaller extent, some hearing students misunderstand spokeninformation, especially in lab environments.We report on the evaluation of an extension to our Real-Time Text Display (RTTD), to handle multiplespeakers (RTTD-MS), for engineering labs. RTTD was developed to reduce frustration in following theteacher and other peers during laboratory and other academic settings. The system projects a real-timedisplay of captions (RTTD) above a teacher who can move around the room during the class orlaboratory, which may aid deaf students in viewing both the speaker and the speaker’s words as text.Our first study with RTTD found that deaf students in engineering course lectures

Conference Session

Action on Diversity - Supporting Students at Multiple Levels

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beverly Louie, University of Colorado, Boulder; Beth A Myers, University of Colorado Boulder; Janet Y Tsai, University of Colorado Boulder; Tanya D Ennis, University of Colorado Boulder

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and assumptions about the GS students received fromthe mainstream community instead reinforced their visible differences and outsider status,isolated from conventional curricular pathways. Changes to key aspects of the GS Program hasled to more student success and growth in the program. These changes included providing moreflexibility in course selection, peer mentoring and tutoring, a diverse set of internship andresearch opportunities, and employment in engineering departments in the College.Background: Asset vs. Deficit MindsetIndividual mindset development: Yeager and Dweck (2012) studied the negative consequencesfrom placing community college students in pre-college, or remedial, math classes. Up to twothirds of such students did not

Conference Session

Action on Diversity - Disability Experiences & Empathy

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Henriette D Burns, Washington State University, Vancouver; Kristin Lesseig, Washington State University Vancouver

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interest evident in observed behavior or verbal expression is astudent’s intrinsic readiness to acquire new domain- specific knowledge and to explore an idea orconcept about the object of interest meta-cognitively.50 Taking work home, asking to borrow abook on the subject, or teaching peers are examples of personal interest. We followed the Hideand Fenninger model12 in our study and analyzed observed behavior and student self-reportedinterest through written and verbal indicators.MethodologyThe research was conducted one day a week for nine weeks, within the sixth-grade class of amiddle-grade after-school science club program sponsored by the state university through thelocal 4-H. The school district had a disproportionate percentage of recent