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Bridging Content and Context in the Classroom

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Tracy Anne Hammond, Texas A&M University; Samantha Ray, Texas A&M University; Paul Taele, Texas A&M University; Shawna Thomas, Texas A&M University; Karan Watson P.E., Texas A&M University; Christine A. Stanley, Texas A&M University; Seth Polsley, Texas A&M University

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Diversity

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Culture & Social Justice in Education, Equity

around race, are facilitated and received. These all shed light on bothstudent and faculty perspectives regarding racial discourse in the classroom. We first reviewhow student learning is influenced by an inclusive classroom. We then discuss commonperspectives around having these difficult conversations. Finally we present ways that studentdevelopment, identity, and stereotypes can impact these faculty-facilitated discussions.Role of Inclusivity in Student Learning. Inclusivity plays a major role in student learning [1].Two representative examples from [1] demonstrate the effects of inclusivity in such studentlearning scenarios: 1. Professor discusses an article talking about the cost of illegal immigrants to the US Economy. Student 1

Conference Session

Critical Conversations on Being Valued

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Minha R. Ha, York University; Jeffrey Harris, York University; Aleksander Czekanski , CEEA-ACEG

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. heavy course load, particular ways of assessment andinstruction, projects that depend on teamwork, different starting levels in programming) that addlevels of stress. Learning to learn inevitably involves transformational change in the learner.Adults have a role to play in enhancing students’ resilience through failures and disappointments.In order to make engineering education an available option for a high school graduate, similaradult support and knowledgeability may reasonably be expected. John explains why an earlyplanning is essential: […] if you want to go into engineering, you had to think of this like years in advance, you had to start taking the courses, the right level courses, so if you want to go to college or

Conference Session

Special Topics: Conscious Considerations

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Courtney Janaye Wright, University of Kentucky; Lucy Elizabeth Hargis, University of Kentucky; Ellen L. Usher, University of Kentucky; Joseph H. Hammer, University of Kentucky; Sarah A. Wilson, University of Kentucky; Melanie E. Miller, University of Kentucky

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, and the connection between the two. In this way, a deductive boundarywas set, and then data analysis within that boundary proceeded in an inductive manner.Data AnalysisThe analysis team consisted of two graduate students (counseling psychology PhD students) andtwo professors (counseling psychology professor, chemical engineering professor). The firstgraduate student was a cisgender, Black woman. The second graduate student was a cisgender,White woman. The first professor was a cisgender White man, and the second, a cisgender Whitewoman. The research team followed Braun and Clarke’s (2006) six steps for conducting thematicanalysis [17]. First, all researchers independently engaged in familiarization and immersion byactively reading and re

Conference Session

Bridging Content and Context in the Classroom

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Melissa Ellen Ko, Stanford University

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notions of student ability based on both their identities and past work 3) The strong reliance on instructor-selected “objective” evaluations that show disparities between students of different identities and levels of privilegeIn response to these inequities, this paper proposes several strategies for instructors to make theirgrading schema more inclusive, including: 1) Diminishing the influence of instructor bias by giving students agency in how they are assessed in the course 2) Honoring different types of work and student growth rather than using convergent assessments that select for students with certain modes of thinking 3) Giving students a role in the grading process by allowing them to help determine the

Conference Session

Changing How We Pursue Change

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Joseph Valle, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Corin L. Bowen, California State University, Los Angeles; Donna M. Riley, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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identifylinkages between future salaries and class status as components impacting hierarchical rankingsamong engineering fields as well as across fields of study more broadly. Additionally, theiridentification of an expectation of students to be trained in skills deemed easily marketable overbeing educated to think critically and participate in civic society connects to the reproduction ofthe institutional power of dominant groups and acts as a barrier to potentially transformativesocial movements by shaping engineering education toward the production of “people who arethinking about how to ‘get ours’” over “people who know what they want to change” [32, p.229].The drive for “people who know