Conference Session

ERM Technical Session 23: Courses and Research on Communication

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ellen Zerbe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Catherine G.P. Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Natascha Trellinger Buswell, University of California, Irvine; Joana M. M. Melo, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

graduateengineering students’ attitudes and perceptions about writing and the writing process, the surveyitself is quite long, averaging participants over 30 minutes to complete. Most interesting weregraduate engineering student responses to two of the surveys given, which will be discussed atlength later and are described in our prior work. Literature suggests that survey fidelity decreases with longer surveys, due to “surveyfatigue” [24] in which participants lose focus or care over their answers, an unwelcomephenomenon in the collection of data. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to present a shortform of the survey which consists of only the survey items that most highly predict writingattitudes. The next section will introduce the two