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2020 ASEE North Central Section conference

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Joseph Dygert, West Virginia University; Melissa Lynn Morris, University of Nevada - Las Vegas; Robin A.M. Hensel, West Virginia University

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, teaching student success skills, and providingprofessional development.AcES students participate in the GRIT, LAESE, and MSLQ surveys at the start and end of eachfall semester and at the end of the spring semester each year. Focus group data is collected at thebeginning, middle and end of each semester and one-on-one interviews occur at the start and endof each semester. The surveys provide a measure of students’ GRIT, defined as perseverance forlong term goals, as well as, general self-efficacy, engineering self-efficacy, test anxiety, mathoutcome efficacy, intrinsic value of learning, inclusion, career expectations, and coping efficacy.A previous study, based on an analysis of the 2017 AcES cohort survey responses, produced asurprising result

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2020 ASEE North Central Section conference

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Matthew Cavalli, Western Michigan University; Anetra Grice, Western Michigan University

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random drawing for one of three $35 gift cards to the University bookstore.In addition to the any relationships between students’ time allocations and their retention andacademic performance, we also hoped to gain insights into initial values and changes in the self-efficacy beliefs of ENGR 2100 students over the course of the semester (as measured by theCollege Self-Efficacy Inventory) in relation their academic outcomes [10,11]. Solberg et al.found that self-efficacy can play a significant role in student success, particularly for Hispanicstudents (and possibly other minority groups). This data could contribute to an early warningmethod of identifying students in most need of targeted intervention. The questions from theCollege Self-Efficacy

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2020 ASEE North Central Section conference

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Bhuvana Ramachandran, University of West Florida; Chathapuram Ramanathan, University of West Florida,; Mohamed Khabou, University of West Florida

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from consideringengineering as a major or choosing engineering as a career. Barriers/Retention ChallengesAccording to Bandura’s self-efficacy theory [33], a person’s belief about his/her ability tosuccessfully perform a task may be an important factor in the choice of certain behaviors oractivities. Wigfield and Eccles [34] built upon Bandura’s theory by arguing that in addition to self-efficacy, an individual’s choice of activities and behaviors will depend not only on how well theindividual believes that he/she will do on a given task, but will depend also on the value that theindividual places on the activity or behavior. According to this theory, expectancy and valuedirectly influence achievement choices. If