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Bridging Content and Context in the Classroom
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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Melissa Ellen Ko, Stanford University
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Diversity
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Culture & Social Justice in Education, Equity
, students are subject to widely held human psychologicalneeds: the desire for esteem and recognition in the eyes of their instructor and peers, and the evenstronger influence of their fears of negative evaluation. Grades provide a standardized andstructural means of providing this recognition or judgment. All too often, instructors use gradesas one of the sole means to give students feedback, without attention to coaching and other formsof feedback not tied to the “carrot” or the “stick” of a specific grade.As grades represent a point of continuous and structurally endorsed feedback for students, themessaging sent by the grade that students receive can overwrite their own self-concept, i.e.whether they are good at the subject matter or have the
Conference Session
For Students to Know and Grow
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Robin Fowler, University of Michigan; Laura K. Alford, University of Michigan; Stephanie Sheffield, University of Michigan; Caitlin Hayward, University of Michigan; Trevion S. Henderson, University of Michigan; Rebecca L. Matz, University of Michigan
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Diversity
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Culture & Social Justice in Education, Equity
heightened risk ofreceiving disconfirming messages regarding whether they belong in academic spaces.In response to these inequities in students’ teamwork experiences and to create a more inclusiveclassroom, in a scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) approach [13], we began collectingstudent information throughout a team-based design project to better understand potentiallyfraught experiences (e.g., to what extent did you feel your ideas were heard and taken seriouslyin the team meeting?) as well as relating that information to more typical peer and self-assessments.Recognizing that power is unevenly distributed within teams, and wanting to forward a moresocially just classroom, we added critical readings highlighting ways that power and
Conference Session
Asset Sourcing for Remaking Engineering Learning
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Cara Margherio, University of Washington; Anna Lee Swan, University of Washington; Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Eva Andrijcic, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Sriram Mohan, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington
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Diversity
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Culture & Social Justice in Education, Equity
were loaded into Dedoose qualitative software; we applied open coding,selective coding, and theoretical coding [20], [21] to analyze the data. Throughout this process,memo-writing was used to identify emergent themes and explicate findings [22], [23]. Thecoding scheme includes the following parent codes: unified voice, group agency, organizational 3character, emotional investment, interpersonal rapport, and role of the RED consortium. For thepurpose of this paper, we focus primarily on unified voice and group agency, taking intoconsideration where and when codes within these two categories intersect with codes within theother categories as well as
Conference Session
Working Against Unjust Social Forces
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Lauren Anne Cooper, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo ; Jennifer Mott, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Culture & Social Justice in Education, Equity
understanding Clean Water Access in the US.In the Analyze section, the students determined what sort of calculations, including economic, andvisuals were need to tell the story of Clean Water Access and present the data. By the end of theEngage and Analyze sections, students’ goal was to ensure that other readers could understandconflicting sides of the issue in the report.For the Reflect section, students were asked to write individual reflections on what they hadlearned in the Engage and Analyze sections. Here they answered the following questions. “Whatare your opinions about the issues?” “How did your opinions change while doing the assignmentand discussions compared to what you thought or knew about the topic before the project?” “Isthere a
Conference Session
Working Against Unjust Social Forces
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Anna Marie LaChance, University of Connecticut; Jennifer Pascal, University of Connecticut; Danielle Gan, University of Connecticut; Justyn James Paquette Welsh, University of Connecticut; Thomas James Pauly, University of Connecticut; Patrick Paul, University of Connecticut
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Culture & Social Justice in Education, Equity
take away from this module), instructional strategy (the in-class activities forEJ Week), and forms of assessment (the homework assignment and project deliverable associatedwith the module’s learning objectives). In exchange for their increased educational labor comparedto the rest of the course, students who self-select to take part in the cogen would be able to dropone homework assignment from their final grade. Ultimately, four students—Danielle Gan, Patrick Paul, Justyn Welsh, and Thomas Pauly—offered to take part in the EJ cogen, writing to Anna about their prior experience with leadingclimate discussions. Danielle, a young woman of color pursuing a minor in global environmentalchange, had taken numerous courses about environmental
Conference Session
Critical Conversations on Being Valued
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Emily Gwen Blosser, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
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Diversity
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Culture & Social Justice in Education, Equity
that uses systematic but flexible guidelines to collect data often through interviews or theanalysis of texts. The researcher then analyzes data through coding and memo-writing. The goalof this method is to develop theories or provide new insights into social phenomena.Constructivist grounded theory recognizes that multiple perspectives and social realities existand promotes ongoing analysis and an openness to emerging ideas. Charmaz’s method alsoacknowledges that the researcher plays an active role in the research. As she explains, the resultsmust be firmly grounded in the data, however, the researcher and the research participants arenot external to the process. For example, researchers determine which questions to ask ofrespondents or which
Conference Session
Changing How We Pursue Change
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Jacqueline Handley, University of Michigan
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Diversity
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Culture & Social Justice in Education, Equity
]. Exercising her agency, Mariabella urged me (andthe group) to consider the displaced persons in the park as particular stakeholders in the design,with distinct needs and requirements. It led us to a distinctly different design space. Wedocumented this idea on the brainstorming paper in the moment. The group later took upMariabella’s idea by 1) including the displaced persons in the park amongst the differentpopulations we surveyed for the design, which led us to 2) focus our design efforts on seating inthe park. The structures of Mariabella’s and Ava’s peers could have constrained this suggestionthrough disagreement or challenge. As the people enacting the curriculum, the group leaders andI could have constrained Mariabella’s suggestion
Conference Session
Working Against Unjust Social Forces
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Desen Sevi Ozkan, Tufts University; Avneet Hira, Boston College
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Culture & Social Justice in Education, Equity
something you heard (someone else say) in your small group that pushed your thinking? • In the professional workforce, whose responsibility is it to ensure a team’s design process is ethical?Lastly, to wrap up the module, we would engage the entire class in a final discussion to highlightkey themes relating to their small and medium breakout rooms. We envision this type of modulehappening earlier in the semester, thereby later in the semester, we would build on this work byhaving students write individual reflexivity statements to discuss how their identities,background, and lived experiences might relate to the design space in which they are working.AcknowledgementsWe would like to thank the authors of the framework and