Conference Session

Technical Session IV

Collection

2018 FYEE Conference

Authors

Christopher McComb, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Catherine G.P. Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Jessica Dolores Menold, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Topics

Diversity, FYEE Conference Sessions

], [16] and scales have beendeveloped in a myriad of fields. With respect to engineering design in particular, Carberry, Lee,and Ohland [17] validated a scale for design self-efficacy that measures student’s self-efficacy,motivation, outcome expectancy, and anxiety across the breadth of activities involved in thedesign process. The correlation between skill and self-efficacy in first-year engineering designcourses is typically studied outside of an assessment context; however, we posit that self-efficacymeasures embedded within open-ended design challenges can add insight into the developmentof students’ skills, both as perceived by the students and as assessed by engineering instructors.To investigate this proposition, this paper presents an