institutional and access barriers to CS advocacy are valued, encouraged, and courses and exams. incorporated throughout the learning process.KP.5 Provision of comprehensive educator preparation CP.4 Families and communities (including their and professional development programs that cultures and assets) are incorporated into the support identity-inclusive pedagogy and practices. design of learning opportunities.KP.6 Development of local, regional, and state CS CP.5 A range of experts who are incorporated into education plans that center identity-inclusive learning opportunities (including researchers computing practices
, “He made a comment about how I would only be successful in thecareer just because I am the diversity quota, and that all the things that [I had accomplished]... isjust because they needed the diversity person.”Beyond facing challenges in interpersonal interactions with peers, participants identified hurdlesrelated to the structural and cultural domains of power. Kalani and Diana struggled to transfercollege credits into the university’s degree plan. Diana felt dismissed by advisors, and struggledto belong in her major. She later found an advisor who supported her success and helped herswitch to a different computing major, Yet, her experiences in computing did not changesignificantly. Rather, Diana expressed the continual pressure to fragment
, ournext steps are to develop an action plan that gives voice to counternarratives and brings truthsabout student experiences to the forefront of departmental decision making and climate work. Inthis way, we will create social justice action from the applied research effort we report at ASEE.Some possible mechanisms for creating dialog with faculty in computing at the universityinclude a) sharing current counternarratives with faculty with opportunity for discussion in afaculty meeting, b) proposing communications changes to departmental staff and leadership toclarify opportunities in the CS department, and c) developing student climate survey instrumentsthat relate to concerns demonstrated in counternarratives. We recognize issues of power
our applications of the categories. After three rounds of codebookiteration, the exact match between the two raters’ codes is 73% and the Cohen’s Kappa score is0.46, indicating moderate agreement (Blackman, N. J. & Koval, J. J., 2000). For the resultsreported in this work-in-progress paper, the raters came to consensus on all the turns of talkwhere our codes disagreed. For future work, we plan to continue to refine the codebook until wereach a Cohen’s Kappa score of 0.8. The final codebook will then be applied to the remaining 26transcripts. Findings Our analysis allowed us to characterize two kinds of marginalizing moves (interrupting and taking up disproportionate space) and three kinds of inclusive moves (encouraging sharing
will happen anyway. Hence, the need to bepurposeful, act with deliberation, and to plan ahead.On Distance EducationSeveral panelists comment on the significance and challenges of distance education.On Educating EducatorsDr. Watford emphasizes how important educating educators is … they are challenged to educatedifferently, yet are not prepared to do so. She also comments on how long ‘active learning’ hasbeen part of engineering education transformation, but questions how pervasive or wellimplemented such approaches are on a large scale. Students are not responsive to ‘old’methods. We must learn how to teach using the tools and methods we are challenging students tolearn. She uses the VLOOKUP function in Excel as an example. How many professors
, followed by the Clean Air and Water Acts, was part of a broader plan to protect the environment from any point source of pollution or contamination.” (Ramirez, 2021).The article points out the limits of the law when it was created in that it omitted to include civilrights protections. Ramirez then traces a history of the environmental justice movement and howits roots lay with Black communities. Through several case studies, Ramirez traces the activismby various communities to then detail the development of environmental policies that have comeafter NEPA. Ultimately, the Vox article discusses the limits of NEPA as it does not addressdisparate harm to disadvantaged communities. Even if developers put together an environmentalimpact
sessions with content ranging from “Getting Started inEarSketch” to “ Racial Discourse in the Classroom.” These sessions range from 1-2 hours, arefacilitated by YVIP curriculum directors, include hands-on activities, and are recorded for futurereference. MethodsEvaluation Framework The evaluation was conducted following the principles of the participatory evaluationframework, defined as “applied social research that involved a partnership between trainedevaluation personnel and practice-based decision makers, organization members with programresponsibility, or people with a vital interest with the program” [15]. These various stakeholderswere involved in the planning and design of the evaluation
undergraduate degree makes it difficult to even think about these manyaspects of her career progression.This self-doubt/lack of self-confidence came up other times, for instance, when she was askedwhat her plan after graduation was: I need to continue studying because I don't feel prepared for life, I don't feel that I have the resources or the awareness of how to learn things on my own yet, as in I don't have the foundations for learning other things... [contd] I don't even know how to get into one of those [Ph.D.] programs. And my GPA isn't the best. I don't have the best track record and research. I haven't-- I'm not a primary author in any research papers, I haven't done anything fantastic. So acceptance
understanding the pressing issues including legislative opportunities (new CSEdcoordinators, call for state CSEd plans, or funding allocated for CSEd).The sessions during the Initial framing phase on subjectivity and bias and, relatedly, on engagingothers with the data story are important in enabling the teams to understand in advance a) howthey want to own their state BPC story and b) how others in the BPC arena make choices abouthow they present data in ways that may be counterproductive to the ECEP team’s BPC advocacywork. These sessions are both cautionary and empowering for the teams.Understanding the data ecosystemWithin the first 6 months of the first CMP cohort the research team designed a process thatallows for a clear understanding of where
of the elements underagency for learning, that is self-reflectiveness, self-regulation, forethought-extrinsic, forethought-intrinsic, intentionality- planfulness, and intentionality- decision competence.Initial Self-Efficacy, Self-Determination, and Agency LevelsAnalysis of the initial levels of each of the three constructs was carried out. A single-factorANOVA analysis was done on the pre-survey (2022) to compare the constructs and assess meandifferences. A post hoc analysis was done further using a Tukey HSD test to check forstatistically significant differences between the frameworks. These comparisons were performedto determine which constructs students were experiencing at the start of the course. The sameanalyses were done on the pre
assessments will be needed to validate these initial findings.Future WorkThe authors plan to deliver a second iteration of the class with updated curricula based onstudents’ recommendations and instructors’ experiences.ReferencesAbr`amoff, M. D., Roehrenbeck, C., Trujillo, S., Goldstein, J., Graves, A. S., Repka, M. X., and Silva III, E. [U+FFFD]2022). A reimbursement framework for artificial intelligence in healthcare. NPJ digital medicine, 5(1):72.American Association of Colleges and Universities (2022). Value rubrics - global learning.Bielefeldt, A. R. and Canney, N. E. (2016). Changes in the social responsibility attitudes of engineering students over time. Science and engineering ethics, 22:1535–1551.Braveman, P., Arkin, E., Orleans, T
a distraction if the familiaritythey have with the term does not align with the context being described. With assumedexperiences having a familiarity with context items or events could be helpful when answeringthe questions. As we continue to assess remaining concept inventories, we plan to expand on ourknowledge of the groups most represented in these questions. At the conclusion of thisassessment, we will have categorized almost 200 inventory questions. Engineeringundergraduate students consist of several racial, ethnic, and cultural groups made up of bothdomestic and international students. These students are from a range of socioeconomic andgeographic backgrounds. Within these students, there are a variety of experiences that
).[3] U.S. Department of Education, Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development andOffice of the Under Secretary, “Advancing Diversity and Inclusion In Higher Education,” 2016.[4] American Society for Engineering Education, “Profiles of Engineering and EngineeringTechnology,” American Society of Engineering Education, Washington, DC, 2021.[5] Q. Ketchum, “Indigenizing ASABE: Why We Should, and How We Can,” ResourceMagazine, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 19–22, 2021.[6] G. S. May and D. E. Chubin, “A Retrospective on Undergraduate Engineering Success forUnderrepresented Minority Students,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 92, no. 1, pp.27–39, 2003, doi: 10.1002/j.2168-9830.2003.tb00735.x.[7] A. Rattan, K. Savani, M. Komarraju, M. M
structural,process, and interpersonal dynamics that were resulting in different outcomes and experiencesfor participants in our workshops. In addition to enhancing inclusion for DHH participants, weacknowledged that slowing down and giving time for all participants to engage with theinformation presented in the slides and discussion would likely lead to better engagement andunderstanding for all.For the fall 2022 workshops, the leadership team continued to refine their thinking about howbest to support activities with mixed-hearing status groups. In alignment with our strategic goalsto ensure each campus team was making progress on their campus self-assessment andorganizational action plans, we moved towards longer campus-specific breakout rooms
ordered and elegant; a neatly bounded object that represents your competency. I knew I was a competent and clever doctoral student, but still my research did not look like that neat and tidy output. My research was messy, it was emotional, and it was not an easily divisible and logical process.” (Weatherall, 2019, p. 101)I itched to do something different in how I presented my work. I even planned to do a cross-stitch representation of each chapter at one point, buying cross-stitching supplies and everything.They never made it out of the package. I was drowning, trying to fit my non-traditional work intothe traditional box of engineering research. By trying to emphasize the rational, apolitical, andmechanistic elements of
engineering and computingdepartments; and 3) posting with social media (e.g., LinkedIn and Facebook). Statistical powercalculations were used to inform our recruitment plan, and recruitment numbers were monitoredon an ongoing, twice-monthly basis.The EECT-STEM survey aimed to delve into the experiences of underrepresented minority (URM)doctoral STEM students, specifically assessing how their racialized experiences, such as minoritystatus stress resulting from discrimination and bias, influence their career aspirations. Similarly,the SIDE 1 survey explored the impact of mental health, racial activism, and minority status stresson students' likelihood of pursuing various career trajectories, with a particular emphasis onentrepreneurship. The ECDES
curriculum auditing, mapping & development, climate and culture assessments for schools and workplaces, and building inclusive and sustainable environments. As longtime K-16+ educators, we struggled to find interdisciplinary place- Mother Earth based curriculums that engaged students with their environment–so we created our own. We Literacies have an Environmental Justice Education (EJE) framework that guides our work. We offer professional development around our published curriculums and help educators decolonize their own curriculum using an auditing and backward planning process (excerpt). Open Buffalo Our mission is to advance
frameworkthat recognizes the need for 1) initial and ongoing professional development for engineeringinstructors who seek to create and teach equity-centered courses, and 2) a collective effort bydepartment leaders and teams of faculty that receive ongoing support for their efforts fromconception and design of equity-centered courses and through implementation and evaluation ofthese curricular reform efforts. This holistic approach faces an important challenge, which is toaccommodate different users in different contexts while providing concrete, practical guidance.We plan to address this challenge by partnering with early adopters (departments andindividuals) to study the framework. We will study their experiences as department leaders andinstructors
models of parts and assembly, manufacturing drawings and 3Dprinting) and constitutes 40% of the students’ overall course grade.Students also work on Team projects in the freshman design course. Five-member teamscollaborate on the ideation, sketching, planning, designing, modeling, assembly and functionalanimations of proposed large engineering structures. Students divide the overall assembly into amanageable number of subassemblies, and delegate tasks so that each member contributes toparts modeling, assembly, animation, checks for functionality, and documentation. Using a socio-technical project-based learning model, the assignment tasks students with designing asustainable product to address the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This
similar meaning into categories toform themes. For example, the three preliminary codes mentioned earlier in this paragraph werecombined into a theme of a sense of belonging to Engineering. For more examples refer tocolumn three in Table 2. To enhance the quality and trustworthiness of the study planning, datacollection, analysis, interpretations, and reporting, we solicited feedback from the research teamon all steps of the study. This included but was not limited to revising the interview protocol andcodebook, piloting interviews, and soliciting feedback from co-authors and other colleagues ascoding and analysis progressed through the project [25].Table 2. Example analytic process for data excerptsInterview excerpts [1
, planned graduation year, and names of anymentors or supporters (e.g., gender, title, and role). This research recruited ten people in total as aresult of the participant recruitment activity. The Table 1 below displays the general backgroundof the participants. Table 1. Participants recruited in the study Name Academic year Major Region Ethnic group Autumn fourth or above Construction Management Midwestern Chinese Kat third year Civil Engineering Western Taiwanese Marielle third year Civil Engineering Midwestern Chinese Ana fourth or above Civil Engineering Western
the lab and going to our work area. And this is the whole of the canoe which concrete gets placed on. And then that's how the canoe is created. So, I think this glimpse made me feel like an engineer because throughout my college career so far, most of our work has been just very ... Like writing, you don't actually get to see real-world applications.”Under theme 2, students described spaces where they were able to get together with other students tosocialize and plan outside of the classroom setting such as crafting projects, club meetings, and potlucks.One University B student described her crafting project, Figure 4: Cider made by RedShirt student to unwind after a test. “I was like in a quiz
-long professional development program focusedon educating institutional teams of faculty, campus leadership and faculty developers about theInclusive Professional Framework and how to integrate its components, individually and asteams, to improve STEM faculty inclusive behaviors. During the Institute, participants explorethe IPF by engaging in a mix of expert presentations, discussions, case-based scenarios, roleplays, as well as individual and group reflection. Teams action plan to operationalize learning inboth their individual roles and at an organizational level. In addition, participants can engagewith an ongoing Community of Practice. To gauge the impact of participation in the ASI, participants were invited to completelinked pre
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woman (she/her) Engineering Yes Dr. O Black woman (she/her) Engineering Yes Dr. Wu Black woman (she/her) Natural Science YesData AnalysisThe data was analyzed using a general inductive analytic plan, meaning we analyzed theinterviews in line with the conceptual framework and study’s objectives [63], [64]. The first stepof the data analysis involved reading through the transcripts so the lead researcher couldfamiliarize themselves with the data. Next, the lead researcher identified significant statements ineach of the interviews pertaining to codes reflective of the Collins’ [11] domains of powerframework. The interpersonal domain code was created to describe when a participantmentioned
there is a course management challenge, and it is incumbent upon the instructor to ensurethat there are support mechanisms for students who may be struggling with the course materials.In addition to the training of peer tutors and TAs, in my case this has meant ensuring that wheneverI am teaching CS 1, I have accounted for extra time needed for the course. In the CS 1 course studentsare required to meet with me 1-on-1 which helps me assess student progress as well as strategize,often with student agency, how to help each student succeed. Active learning and peer learningtechniques are also critical to ensuring there is a greater opportunity for students to learn from eachother and form a learning community. In the future, I also plan to
to make engineering education more inclusive in different ways.For instance, Rooney (2020) developed a workshop that helped faculty work through topics suchas implicit bias, growth mindset, interpersonal and teamwork skills, and other evidence-basedpractices that can promote inclusivity. Further, Dewsbury & Brame (2019) developed aninteractive guide that would help instructors develop inclusive teaching practices. They emphasizethe role of instructor empathy and self-awareness as well as the kinds of classroom climates theycreate. Relatedly, Hunter et al. (2010) lay out a professional development plan for lab instructionthat emphasizes diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM. They focus on diversity in terms oflearning styles and
ofnew engineering pedagogy focused on Human Rights. We then explain the methodologyemployed for our survey and introduce our preliminary results. The paper concludes withlessons learned, derived from our survey responses and course evaluations, and future plans.1 The University of Connecticut’s broader Engineering for Human Rights Initiative (EHRI) is “a collaborativeventure between UConn’s College of Engineering and the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute that addresseshuman rights implications of the most significant challenges in engineering and technology.” Seehttps://engineeringforhumanrights.initiative.UConn.edu/ 3 ASEE 2024HUMAN RIGHTS
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