Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Crawley, MIT; Robert Niewoehner, United States Naval Academy; Jean Koster, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

development skills necessary to translate technicalknowledge into competitive products; and self confidence in learning (self-efficacy). We’ve introduced the innovative adaptation of new tools for student learning assessment toaeronautics education. Assessment of self-confidence in learning will be used both as animportant educational outcome and as a means to better understand the dynamics of careerdevelopment. There is a rich literature that has addressed the importance of having self-confidence that one can successfully perform the tasks necessary to achieve larger goals. Thisform of self-confidence, called self-efficacy,22 is not a general personality trait like self-esteem,but instead varies from one domain to another as individuals gain