Conference Session

CEED Technical Session II: Developing Research and Design Skills Through Experiential Learning

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rylan C. Chong, Chaminade University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative and Experiential Education

self-efficacy. In addition, thisstudy examined whether the relationship was different between genders. The students in the classwere from eight universities and worked in teams with a mentor from a government agency orlab who provided them with a real unclassified cybersecurity problem. The study was conductedin 2016 and included a sample of 18 students (males=13 and females=5) who responded to a pre-survey and a post-survey (Cronbach’s alphas for both surveys =.96) that measured researchedself-efficacy using a 100-point Likert scale (0=complete uncertainty and 100=completecertainty). Due to a small sample, a Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test and a Mann-Whitney U Testwere used to analyze the data. As part of the posttest, students were asked open

Conference Session

CEED Technical Session II: Developing Research and Design Skills Through Experiential Learning

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diana R. Haidar, Carnegie Mellon University; Michael C. Melville, Carnegie Mellon University

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative and Experiential Education

significant improvement in students’ self-efficacy for applyingthese skills after completing the course. Furthermore, a notable number of students expressingdoubt in their abilities to complete a particular task with a maker skill had improvements to theirself-efficacy upon noting the steps towards successful completion of that task, and expressedconfidence in completing an even more complex task.IntroductionEngineering educators are often interested in knowing whether their students can confidentlyapply the skills they were taught from coursework. In many studies, exams and final grades areused as the key metrics in measuring students’ success towards applying theory to practice [1]–[5]. Yet, other researchers have repeatedly taken more interest in

Conference Session

CEED Technical Session II: Developing Research and Design Skills Through Experiential Learning

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicole Bowers, Arizona State University; Michelle Jordan, Arizona State University; Kate Fisher; Zachary Holman, Arizona State University; Mathew D. Evans, Arizona State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative and Experiential Education

to theengineering CoP as well as their imagination of their current relationship to the CoP in the formof self-efficacy. Two data sources were used to operationalize participants imagination as a modeof belonging: pre-post administrations of a self-efficacy survey and post-program used to probefor how participants’ saw themselves in relation to the CoP. Self-efficacy. The self-efficacy measure focused on participants’ imagined sense of theirown current capabilities related to engineering. At two points in the program (pre and post), REUparticipants were asked to rate themselves on a scale from 0 (Completely Unconfident) to 100(Completely Confident) with respect to their current level of self-efficacy or confidence forinnovation and