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Conference Session
Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 19
Collection
2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Foad Hamidi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Adena Moulton, Digital Harbor Foundation; Shawn Grimes; Stephanie Grimes; Andrew Coy, Digital Harbor Foundation
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Pre-College Engineering Education
months, we collected data using aseries of survey tools including two Upper Elementary School and Middle/High School StudentAttitudes toward STEM (S-STEM) Surveys (Technology and Engineering and 21st CenturySkills) [8] and the Alternative Uses Test (AUT) [9][10]. Additionally, we conducted interviewswith representative youth about their perceptions and attitudes towards the surveys.While the AUT results showed a positive change in the youth, initial results from pre-postSTEM-S evaluations showed insignificant and sometimes negative shifts in youth's intereststowards Technology and Engineering, and 21st Century Skills. Interviews showed that youthstruggled to accurately assess changes in themselves due to the time lapse between pre-postprogram
Conference Session
Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 4
Collection
2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Emel Cevik, Texas A&M University; Michael Johnson, Texas A&M University; Bugrahan Yalvac, Texas A&M University; Jennifer Whitfield, Texas A&M University; Mathew Kuttolamadom, Texas A&M University; Jay R. Porter, Texas A&M University; Joseph A. Morgan, Texas A&M University
Tagged Divisions
Pre-College Engineering Education
activities. The DET survey is a five-point Likert-scale that consists of 40 items.The instrument focused on measuring the participants’ perceptions and familiarity with the DETconcepts. A S-STEM survey was also administrated to the teachers’ students at the beginning andthe end of the school year. The S_STEM survey is a five-point Likert-scale with 37 items. TheS_STEM survey captured the students’ attitudes towards the STEM fields and the 21st-centuryskills. In the paper we will describe the research conducted and discuss the implications forcultivating STEM literacy and integrated STEM education. Both pre- and post-comparison resultsand correlation results are presented.IntroductionSTEM fields play a crucial role in generating technological
Conference Session
Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 1
Collection
2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Katherine C. Chen, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Tiffiny Antionette Butler , Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Suzanne Sontgerath, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Ryan Nicole Meadows, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Tagged Topics
Diversity
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Pre-College Engineering Education
Director of Pre-collegiate Outreach Programs at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Meadows works with K-12 S STEM outreach programs during the summer and academic year. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Building and Evaluating a Multi-tiered Mentor Program to Introduce Research to High School Women (Evaluation)AbstractWorcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has developed the Women’s Research and MentoringProgram (WRAMP) with the goal of encouraging more women to consider advanced degrees inscience, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). A multi-tiered mentor program hasevolved to place two local high school students in a graduate student mentor’s research lab