framework, ConcepTests are typicallyqualitative and require no or very minimal numerical calculation, although they may requiremental imagination of the development of key equations. Also, some ConcepTests are intendedfor summative assessment and should follow specific guidelines; others may be open-ended andintended to provoke debate and force students to verbalize and justify their assumptions whenanswering questions (Beatty et al. 2006).Since the workshop, the team has had virtual meetings every 1-2 months to discuss conceptquestion development and to review progress. A systematic review process was set up toprovide feedback on all of the different questions, and to plan and manage initial student testingconducted at three different institutions
with someonethey are not familiar with. A more personalized approach such as establishing rapport with theparticipants prior to administering the survey or participant interviews may elicit information thatparticipants may initially be hesitant to share.Future WorkData analysis is ongoing and will consist of a complete analysis of the reasons that influenceBlack women to leave their engineering positions. Trends and relationships between otherfactors and the decision to leave will also be examined. We also asked participants for theiremails and permission to contact them about their survey responses. We plan to conduct more in-depth interviews with these women to better understand their experiences within the workforce.Our hope is that this
had that feature. Other suggestions in that samesemester were to add captions and to have different speakers. After analyzing these responses,we added the ability to change the video’s speed on every video. Second, we decided to providecaptions for all the films once we were confident about a film’s wording. Third, we redid threevideos using student speakers and plan on incorporating more student speakers into the films.Results of Instructor Focus Groups. In October, we held two focus groups for instructors whomentor students on writing in courses, research projects, and professional developmentworkshops. One focus group involved six faculty members who teach or mentor students onwriting technical reports or research papers. Another focus
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factor and showed high coefficient alpha (.93) with the final grades in the original MSLQdescription [2].Test anxiety The MSLQ includesd test anxiety as a factor of affective component. This componentincludes both an emotionality and cognitive component. Emotionality refers to affective andphysiological aspects, like worries. The cCognitive component of test anxiety includes cognitiveconcern and preoccupation with performance. Test anxiety was negatively correlated toacademic performance (α = .80) [2].Time and study environment Self-regulation of time and study environment (TSE) is important for one’s successfullearning, and this factor also was highly correlated with the final grade (α = .76). It encompassesscheduling, planning
activitiesfacilitated by OSDS.History of Freshmen Student Support ProgramsGoing on 20 years, MAPS and the EFLC are the longest running student support programsdeveloped by OSDS. The MAPS Program exists to increase the retention and academicperformance of all students who are pursuing a COE degree. Although MAPS was originallydeveloped and implemented through National Science Foundation (NSF) funding, it is now fullyfunded by the University as a key component of the Southern Association of Colleges andSchools (SACS) Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), known as Prospect For Success (PFS). PFSis designed to foster academic engagement through three specific learning outcomes:Commitment to Success, Inquiry, and Cultural Awareness. For more information regarding
understanding. The plan is to continue tooffer the CUE-CMR in subsequent semesters to assess student understanding of electrostaticscontent.Future work will involve attempting to have the course split into two sections, one taught with abaseline guided-inquiry pedagogy, and the other taught with the guided-inquiry pedagogy butwith EML added in order to measure if any knowledge gain occurs due to EML specifically.References[1] Notaroš, Branislav M. "Geometrical approach to vector analysis in electromagneticseducation." IEEE Transactions on Education 56, no. 3 (2012): 336-345.[2] Voltmer, David R., and D. Garner. "A new direction for undergraduate electromagnetics."In FIE'98. 28th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference. Moving from'Teacher
year, an intervention is planned which will include sophomore students and will againutilize the senior students as mentors. In this next iteration, however, the context will be morestructured and related to a project assignment the sophomore students are completing for acourse.AcknowledgementsFunding for this research was provided by the National Science Foundation through grant EEC-1927144.ReferencesAustin A. E. (2002). Preparation of the next generation of faculty; Graduate school as socialization to the academic career. Journal of Higher Education, 73, 94-122.Blimling, G. The Resident Assistant: Applications and Strategies for Working with College Students in Residence Halls. 7th Edition, Kendall Hunt PublishingBurke P.J. and Reitzes
most of the skills listed above are satisfied, either directly or indirectly, through ABETcriteria, some are emphasized more than others. Bloom’s taxonomy of educational objectives(1956) is widely used in curriculum design to plan learning experiences and prepare evaluationtools [6]. The original taxonomy was organized into three domains: Cognitive, Affective, andPsychomotor, although only the cognitive domain was developed initially, followed by work onthe affective domain by [7]. The cognitive domain includes objectives which deal with the recallor recognition of knowledge and the development of intellectual abilities and skills. The affectivedomain includes objectives which describe changes in interest, attitudes, and values, and
% ofthe cause the attrition [3]. Therefore, an ancillary research question is: Can mandatory studygroups formed in an introductory engineering course, help students succeed in other gatewayclasses? The results to the two research questions are reported with links to supporting videos.An Introduction to Human Centered DesignIn order to discuss design thinking and, by extension, IBM Enterprise Design Thinking (EDT) -paraphrased as human-centered design at scale (and speed) - we must first ground ourselves in thedefinition of general human-centered design (HCD) and the root meaning of design. A design isdefined as the purpose, planning, or intention that exists behind an action, fact, or material object.In and of itself, design is neither good nor
and polling questions were also perceived aspositive on average across demographic groups. The slightly lower score may be due to students’resistance to active learning formats [25]. The largely positive responses to the course structuresupport the plan to continue with this overall template. However, some results warrantadjustments: as mentioned JiT quizzes were already replaced. Assigned groups were rated in thebottom three for both female and black students. This could mean that more care is needed increating groups, or additional support is needed for developing group cohesiveness.This paper presented a small subset of the data collected in the study; much more work is left tobe done. Ongoing analysis will look at other student aspects
. The breadth and depth of engineeringmeant any individual branch within engineering, such as chemical engineering, could easily have46 episodes devoted to within that branch, or even within a single engineering course likethermodynamics. The direction to cover all of engineering meant that achieving a balance betweenall branches of engineering, with appropriate breadth and depth to cover key topics within eachfield, would take significant planning and effort before the series could even be filmed. Mappingout the series took ten months of research, which occurred while the series was being initiallywritten, filmed, animated, produced, and released. The series effectively broke down into several components. The first six episodes
Engineering Students’ Communication, Teamwork, and Leadership Skills, vol. 57, no. 3. Springer Netherlands, 2016.[5] B. A. Burt, D. D. Carpenter, C. J. Finelli, and T. S. Harding, “Outcomes of engaging engineering undergraduates in co-curricular experiences.”[6] L. C. Strauss and P. T. Terenzini, “The Effects of Students’ In- and Out-of-Class Experiences on their Analytical and Group Skills: A Study of Engineering Education,” Res. High. Educ., vol. 48, no. 8, pp. 967–992, Dec. 2007.[7] A. L. Miller, L. M. Rocconi, and A. D. Dumford, “Focus on the finish line: does high- impact practice participation influence career plans and early job attainment?,” High. Educ., vol. 75, no. 3, pp. 489–506, 2018.[8] S
supportcomputational thinking while planning a programming instruction [9]. To examine practices andperspectives in Computational thinking learning research, a proposed methodology of datacollection will be asking students to verbalize their thought process using think aloud protocolwhile programming and their on-screen programming activity could be captured and analyzed[9]. As for the instructional implication, it is proposed that a constructionism-based problem-solving learning environment, with information processing, scaffolding and reflection activities,could be designed to foster computational practices and computational perspectives.Although constructionism was the dominant learning theory to teach computational thinking.Additional frameworks were also
propercontext, and did not adequately prepare students to integrate knowledge across courses.Furthermore, labs were not used effectively. The study recommended a so-called “spiral model”and effective use of labs (by basing them on design projects):“… the ideal learning trajectory is a spiral, with all components revisited at increasing levels ofsophistication and interconnection. Learning in one area supports learning in another.” [1]-[2]A digest version of the study is available online. It compares a “linear components” model (of acurriculum) to their proposed “spiral model”—using two helpful diagrams [3].Chu’s approach applies the spiral model by introducing certain lab component themes (forfreshman labs) and then maps out a plan to revisit them with
reflect on their full rangeof projects. We conducted one focus group interview with three students from one team in energyengineering and six individual interviews with students from energy engineering, civil engineering,and computer engineering (Table 2). Since this is a work-in-progress, we reported our primaryfindings based on the group interview and six individual interviews. In our next step, for triangulationand enrich data with different aspects of students’ learning experiences in PBL, we planned to conductfocus group interviews firstly, and then invite same students from focus group interviews toparticipant in individual interviews.In the data analysis process, all interviews involved in this study were transcribed and reviewedcarefully
. Department of Commerce (see Figure 1a). All high schoolsin the Norfolk Public School system have students who reside in qualified opportunity zones (theirattendance zones are given in Figure 1b). Figure 1: Qualified Opportunity Zones in Norfolk, VA [15]Norfolk Public Schools Activities in Career and Technical EducationThe work plan will develop, assess, and improve the course curriculum and hands-on activities inthe area of computer science principles with Norfolk High Schools, Old Dominion University, andindustry partners for the Career and Technical Education (CTE) program. Figure 2 illustrates theComputer Science and Cybersecurity Pathway for the CTE Logical Model. One of the ways toengage more underrepresented students in STEM
classroom observation was conducted by two trained observers. Following the observation,the observers met with each faculty member to discuss each person’s goals as they pertain to theRTOP rubric. An individualized follow-up plan was devised among the participants andobservers and was also used to guide subsequent observations and instructional coaching. Inorder to examine how the active learning strategies that were presented in the workshopsimpacted student achievement, course-level data for undergraduate engineering classes betweenthe academic years of 2012-2013 (before the faculty development program) and 2017-2018 (afterthe faculty development program) was gathered. Seven disciplines of engineering were sampled:aerospace, biomedical, chemical
, pp. 115-149. Available: http://www98.griffith.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/handle/10072/55296/80979_1.pdf?sequen ce=1[30] Enterprise Florida. (2008). Statewide strategic plan for economic development: Rural priority. Available: http://www.floridajobs.org/REDI/EFI_2006- 08_RuralStrategicPlanofWork.pdf[31] U.S. Department of Agriculture. (2015). Rural America at a glance. 2015 edition. Available: http://www.ers.usda.gov/media/1952235/eib145.pdf
of wheels, and 3D printing [26] Entrepreneurship: business planning, business model canvas [27], product development process, market analysis, product market matrix [28], Porter’s 5 forces [29], technology S- curve [30], venture capital, crowd funding, grants, social entrepreneurship, and managing intellectual propertyCorresponding to each lesson on fundamental concepts, participants worked on hands-on learningtasks in teams. VEX Robotics Clawbot kit [31] and Arduino UNO microcontroller [32] were usedfor building the chassis of the robot and the microcontroller circuitry of the robot, respectively.The research team introduced participants to operating principles, electrical schematic, coding, andmicrocontroller interfacing of
the author with multipleideas as to focus on how to achieve more efficient student learning. The author plans to work onimproving his classroom assignments to address the issues generated in this research activity.The above set of conclusions are almost identical to the ones the author has arrived at, in hisprevious research publications (Narayanan, 2019).APPENDIX A: Procedure Followed by the Author 1 Continuous Review Improvement Assignment 5 2 Select Draw
effective in teaching math and science concepts to middle schoolstudents. They indicated during the professional development that the math and science teachershad the opportunity to work together to prepare collaborative math and science lessons with theintegration of technology. They were motivated to work with their colleagues in their schools toprepare collaborative math and science lesson plans to demonstrate the connection to theirstudents.The flight simulator software/hardware has been installed in two middle school (Figure 5) and isbeing installed in a third middle school so that teachers can implement the pedagogical approachin their classrooms.AcknowledgementThis research is supported by NSF Grant# 1614249.References[1] NCES (2018) https
it is a requirement for being hired to understand this technology and these programs. Oneadditional survey involved students exposed to this new technology. Students were asked to respondto a series of statements pertaining to the inclusion of BIM for the purpose of structural design as partof the intermediate design courses taught within the authors’ program. With the data from the resultsof these surveys, a plan can be formulated for the inclusion of these new technologies into theteachings of engineering students.For the survey sent to engineering programs, the 24 ABET accredited architectural engineeringprograms were contacted, as well as similar programs at other universities. A total of 32 programswere sent the survey, with 20
teaching contents of Engineering Drawing course have included the introductionof tolerance and fit, important elements of engineering drawings and the use of at least oneCAD software such as SOLIDWORKS, AutoCAD. The task of “disassembling andredrawing the provided XY positioning mechanism” is set in the plan of the project referringto the idea of “reverse engineering” used for teaching. An example of the disassembly andmapping process of the screw slide table is shown in Fig. 4. In this way, students can discernthe components of “handwriting robot” and apprehend how these components work togetherto achieve system functions by disassembling the provided machinery, which is necessary forbeginners. Tasks such as writing measure reports, drawing
Effectively communicating, building rapport and relating well to all kinds of people Leadership Organizing and influencing people to believe in a vision while creating a sense of purpose and direction Negotiation Listening to many points of view and facilitating agreements between two or more parties Personal accountability Being answerable for personal actions Planning and organizing Establishing courses of action to ensure that work is completed effectively Problem solving Defining, analyzing and diagnosing key components of a problem
ambiguity of many of the objectives from each analyzed set was identified during theanalysis process for this study. Some of this lack of clarity resulted from the fact that many of theobjectives were deemed too difficult to objectively measure in a course, such as to “demonstrateconstant curiosity about our changing world.” The solution to this current lack of clarity is toimprove specificity and measurability in EM objectives. Measurable course outcomes ofteninvolve observable criteria, time frames, and numerical goals. For example, rather than “Studentswill develop and demonstrate proficiency in writing and verbal skills,” an effective objectivemight be "Present an original business plan at a design showcase."Many other objectives, although
Compared to Men: Lack of Mathematical Confidence a Potential Culprit.,” PLoS One, vol. 11, no. 7, p. e0157447, 2016.[29] J. Wang, H. Hong, J. Ravitz, and M. Ivory, “Gender differences in factors influencing pursuit of computer science and related fields,” in Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE, 2015, vol. 2015–June, pp. 117–122.AppendixBelow please find question in the survey which studied for the purpose of this study.Q. (field plans). “Mark all that apply.”Which of the following options best describe what field(s) you wanted to pursue?q6ms… = desired field in middle schoolq6bhs… = desired field at the beginning of high schoolq6ehs… = desired field at the end of high schoolq6col
community partners. To evaluate the effectiveness of the critical learning community,students will be prompted at various points in the quarter to use the reflection journals todescribe any aspects of the community partnership that have influenced how they understandthemselves, others, and the communities with whom they will work. Students’ reflection journalswill be analyzed for themes that emerge.(c) Community partners’ perceptions: Finally, because this course collaborates withinternational partners, their feedback must be sought in understanding the impact of the course.We plan to design a questionnaire that is collaboratively informed by the community partnersand faculty. We wish to understand the expectations and priorities of the community
idea. Students start from thebasics, such as drawing a line, and are well-supported with lesson videos and visual guidance foreach lesson. Practice may be pursued through a structured plan, or by selecting their own paththrough the lessons. The most popular item is an award-winning gamified line sketching activitywhereby points are awarded for achievement levels of three basic sketching metrics.Instructor ObservationsAll three tools provide digital formative assessments with immediate feedback to the studentsfrom the tools. PhET and Sketchtivity respond with visual stimuli to be interpreted by thestudent, while Mechanix is designed to provide textual hints and guidance.PhET is an online simulation tool widely utilized at all levels of
measures when considering socioeconomic status,gender, ethnicity, and race of test takers (Gilborn & Mizra, 2000; Weissglass, 2001).Muddying the water- how qualitative data provide further reinterpretations of impactIn our initial plans for studying scholars over time, we brought naïve assumptions about whomour scholars would be, and how to address a “fair comparison” in our study of the impact of ourprogram. As we began interviews and focus groups in our studies at multiple institutions, wefound context variables that further complicated our work. As we take a mixed method approach,the data help inform our evolving quantitative study. The following are realities we did notprepare for in our study of “time to degree” with students studying