engineering students, the possible implementation of acontinuous scheme—although complicated--should not be discounted.References[1] C. Wagner, “High GPA leads to interview; Good interview leads to job,” Marketing - Miami University, 22-Jul-2015. [Online]. Available: http://miamioh.edu/news/top- stories/2015/07/gpa-interview-job.html. [Accessed: 25-Mar-2018].[2] S. Adams, “Do Employers Care About College Grades?,” Forbes, 08-Jul-2015. [Online]. Available: https://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2015/07/08/do-employers-care-about- college-grades/. [Accessed: 25-Mar-2018].[3] L. D. Edgar, D. M. Johnson, D. L. Graham, and B. L. Dixon, “Student and Faculty Perceptions of the Plus/Minus Grading System,” PsycTESTS Dataset, 2014.[4] H. Altaf
AC 2007-368: INDUCING STUDENTS TO CONTEMPLATECONCEPT-ELICITING QUESTIONS AND THE EFFECT ON PROBLEMSOLVING PERFORMANCEPaul Steif, Carnegie Mellon University PAUL S. STEIF Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa Degrees: Sc. B. 1979, Brown University; M.S. 1980, Ph.D. 1982, Harvard University. Research area: engineering mechanics and education.Jamie LoBue, Carnegie Mellon University Undergraduate Student, Mechanical EngineeringAnne Fay, Carnegie Mellon University Director of Assessment, Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA Degrees: B.A. 1983, York University; Ph. D. 1990, University of California
degrees, either completing multiple degrees atHBCUs or only attaining their undergraduate degree at an HBCU before attending a differenttype of institution for graduate studies. As Crewe [3] further notes, depending on the institutionthat awarded the graduate degree(s), recognition of success may be framed around the alumni’snon-HBCU campus environments rather than how one’s undergraduate HBCU campusexperiences helped lay the foundation for academic achievement. Such narratives areproblematic and speak to the need to further highlight the critical and supportive role HBCUsplay in producing Black STEM professionals. Additionally, there remains a critical gap in theliterature that details the graduate school decision-making process for HBCU
traditionalstudents to leave school in their first year; 1) much less likely to earn a degree within five years;2) far more likely to have leave school without returning than their traditional counterparts.Why we need to examine nontraditional student experiences in STEM In the United States, STEM education at all levels remains a significant national priority basedupon concerns ranging from global competitiveness, national security, 21st century workforceneeds, and equal access. In 2018, U.S. science and engineering (S&E) bachelor’s degreescomprised only 10% of the global total, while India and China together produced almost half ofthe world’s S&E bachelor degrees during the same time period. The U.S. demand for graduateswith STEM degrees continues
al., [11]) is Pulakos et al.’s taxonomy, which includes: solving problemscreatively; dealing with uncertain or unpredictable work situations; learning new worktasks/technology/procedures; interpersonal adaptability; cultural adaptability; physically-orientedadaptability; handling workplace stress; and handling emergencies/crisis situations [34]. There isno published instrument associated with this taxonomy; those authors taking it up have createdprocedures and instruments based on their own operationalization of the dimensions. Notably,this taxonomy focuses explicitly on observed behaviors, rather than on the metacognitive orcognitive skills and abilities identified in the rest of the literature, as being central to adaptiveexpertise, making
advising quality) 12 Connection and sense of belonging to college Literature review 13 Opportunity to be independent Focus group Negative outcomes Participation in out-of-class activities does not always lead to positive outcomes. The review ofliteratures revealed that there are a number of unintended consequences or negative outcomesassociated with students’ involvement in out-of-class activities. Further, the researchers foundthat there are a number of factors that act as barriers to students from getting involved in certainout-of-class activities. To the best of our knowledge, no such survey(s) exist that assess studentson those negative
incorporating social parameters into thescientific process, and the third is Delve et al.’s service learning model. Page 25.70.3Schwartz’s model describes the cognitive development towards engaging in altruistic behaviorthrough five unique phases11, 12. The first phase is the Attention Phase and describes theindividual’s recognition of needs, perceptions about potential action and recognition of one’sown ability to engage in these actions. The Motivation Phase categorizes the activation of theindividual’s value system through feelings of moral obligation to act or not act. The activationof moral obligations could come from internal personal norms
definitions and descriptions, an alternative workingdefinition for troubleshooting would be a type of problem solving that analyzes a faulty systemto identify the fault(s) in the system and then pursue the appropriate procedures to correct thefault(s) in a timely manner.Engineering is one of the domains where well-developed troubleshooting skills can frequentlymake a substantial impact, e.g., when an engineer finds and fixes a problem that has shut down amass transit line. Significantly, it has been observed that the engineers entering industry havepoorly developed troubleshooting skills because they gain little hands-on experience and theyunderuse test equipment in the typical U.S. undergraduate engineering curriculum [5]. Morerecently (in 2018
survey were brought to the attention ofthe faculty including the survey’s skip function when particular questions were answerednegatively and items requiring free response. The format of the interview followed that ofcognitive interviewing in which faculty were encouraged to explain their understanding of eachitem. Cognitive interviewing is an important step in survey development as this type ofinterviewing helps researchers to evaluate participants’ interpretation of the quality of surveyitems and their ability to measure the intended construct(s). In keeping with the sensemakingframework, this phase of interviewing was aimed at validating the items on the survey from theperspective of faculty who would be future implementers of the instrument
mechanicalengineers. Future research will expand this to other engineering disciplines.AcknowledgmentsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.EEC 1751369. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.References[1] J. F. Hair, W. C. Black, B. J. Babin, R. E. Anderson, and R. L. Tatham, Multivariate data analysis. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006.[2] Z. S. Roth, H. Zhuang, V. Ungvichian, and A. Zilouchian, "Integrating Design into the Entire Electrical Engineering Four Year Experience."[3] B. I. Hyman, "From capstone to cornerstone
(i.e., undergraduate students in the class, other LAs,graduate TAs and faculty on the instructional team), the LAs develop a broad set of socio-technical competencies that may help better prepare them for engineering practice.AcknowledgementThe authors are grateful for support provided by the National Science Foundation grant DUE1347817. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this materialare those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.References[1] S. Olson, and D. G. Riorda, "Engage to Excel: Producing One Million Additional College Graduates with Degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Report to the President," Executive Office of
opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are thoseof the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of IES.References[1] X. Fan, W. Luo, M. Menekse, D. Litman, and J. Wang, “CourseMIRROR: Enhancing large classroom instructor-student interactions via mobile interfaces and natural language processing.” in Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2015), Seoul, Korea, 2015. pp. 1473–1478.[2] W. Luo and D. J. Litman, “Summarizing student responses to reflection prompts.,” in Proceedings of Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Lisbon, Portugal, 2015. pp. 1955–1960.[3] W. Luo, X. Fan, M. Menekse, J. Wang, and D. J. Litman
traditional disciplines, including engineering and physical sciences,to perform research focused on the micro to macro-level fabrication and regeneration of tissues.While this field has continued to grow since the 1970’s [6], it faces challenges shared by otherinterdisciplinary fields when trying to develop and implement curriculum for interdisciplinaryprograms.Rapid growth in interdisciplinary fields and subsequently interdisciplinary academic programshas created programs with ill-defined disciplinary skills for students graduating from thoseprograms [7]. As a result, interdisciplinary engineering program graduates regularly pursuecareers outside of traditional engineering jobs [8], often making career trajectories unclear aftergraduation [9]. In an
differences in the trends emerging from the twogroups. Our analysis thus far suggests that trends tend to be common to both groups.Specifically, most of the trends emerging from Table 2 are replicated in Table 3 and vice versa.Table 2. Papers Presented in Divisions Other Than LEES Table&2.&PAPERS&PRESENTED&IN&DIVISIONS&OUTSIDE(OF(LEES& Division Number and Title of Session No. & Paper Title(s) & ID Numbers Non-LEES Sessions Position of Papers 1. Chemical Engineering W105 Communication in the 4 (entire • “Improving Student Technical
questions.While we are just launching our validation effort, it is worth commenting on some criticalmethodological issues related to the two main approaches we are now pursuing. The firstapproach is among the most widely used for scoring SJT items. It involves utilizing a smallgroup of SMEs (i.e., job incumbents with extensive global experience) who identify best andworst options, or rate each response option on a continuum using a Likert-type scale (e.g., from1=least desirable behavior/action to 5=most desirable behavior/action). A test-taker’s answerswill then be compared to the SME ratings; the more similarities between SME ratings and thetest-taker’s answers, the higher scores s/he would receive. This presumes that responses collectedfrom SMEs
0.86 0.00 0.80 0.71 0.00 helping me to understand the material. 3. The course format/delivery -1.13 0.73 0.00 -0.57 1.01 0.01 method encouraged cheating. 4. I enjoyed the course. 0.37 0.89 0.03 0.50 0.78 0.00 5. I was interested in the material 0.80 0.81 0.00 1.07 0.78 0.00 presented. 6. It would bother me if other 0.57 1.04 0.01 0.63 1.13 0.01 student(s) cheated during this course
methods include the use of content experts, reviews of existinginstruments, and lists of behaviors and descriptors commonly associated with the construct(s) wewish to assess. Unfortunately, however, item creation sometimes becomes overly dependentupon a researcher’s personal attitudes about the construct(s) being tested, or on “borrowing”items from other instruments that may or may not be sound measures of the construct(s) ofinterest. These risks are particularly likely for new researchers in engineering education, whomay have little experience with best practices in social science research.One way to support best practices in the development of new surveys and assessments is to usean instrument blueprint to guide the creation of items, as well
project of survey development is entering its second year, and the section concerningstudents’ in-class, cognitive engagement is in its final stages. In Fall 2017, the survey wasdistributed to 618 students across courses of varying size, undergraduate academic level, andcontent focus in engineering. Another round of factor analyses will be conducted with our newround of survey data, and items will be revised, reworded, and removed as necessary. ReferencesAppleton, J. J., Christenson, S. L., Kim, D., & Reschly, A. L. (2006). Measuring cognitive and psychological engagement: Validation of the Student Engagement Instrument. Journal of School Psychology, 44(5), 427-445.Chi, M. T., &
. Retrieved from Washington, DC:Brubaker, E. R., Kohn, M., & Sheppard, S. (2019). Comparing outcomes of introductory makerspaces courses: The role of reflection and multi-age communities of practice. Paper presented at the International Symposium on Academic Makerspaces, New Haven, CT.Carbonell, R. M., & Andrews, M. E., & Boklage, A., & Borrego, M. J. (2019, June), Innovation, Design, and Self-Efficacy: The Impact of Makerspaces Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Tampa, Florida. https://peer.asee.org/32965Charmaz, K. (2006). Constructing grounded theory: A practical guide through qualitative analysis. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.Fasso, W., & Knight, B. A. (2019
identify motivations for and barriers to changes in resource use, Survey 3 also askedparticipants, “Have you changed the amount of times you used any of the following courseresources during the past three weeks? For the course resources that have changed, state thereason for the change.” Participants were provided a text box to type a written description oftheir reason(s) for changing resource(s) use.Exam Scores. Participant performance was measured using exam scores provided by theinstructor at the end of the course. Two midterm exams and one final exam were administered inclass by the primary instructor during the 15-week semester (Figure 1). Week 2: Week 4: Week 5: Week 7: Week 8: Survey 1
…half and half. Half of [theprofessors] will [not teach well], [the] other half are pure geniuses who actually genuinely careabout you.” While, Georgia from HBCU2 had a slightly more positive experience: …I came over [to this university before I enrolled], and I…was just browsing…I spoke with an advisor in the industrial engineering program, Ms. V. … [S]he was just so nice. She was caring. As soon as I came in, she [said], ‘Oh, we need you here. We need people here.’ And I [said], “Okay, okay.” I was at [another university] at the time, and I just felt like a number there. But as soon as I came here…they just automatically showed me that they cared.Georgia’s experience was similar to that of Carlos from HSI1
instructional interventions. Theinterventions were either school-wide or part of smaller, in-school academies. The 2012-13school-year was the launch of the Urban Initiative.As part of a larger research project, a set of surveys were developed to measure student attitudestoward STEM and interest in STEM careers. Two versions of the “Student Attitudes towardSTEM (S-STEM) Survey” were created, one for upper elementary students (4th and 5th grade)and another for middle and high school students (6-12th grade). To measure student interest inSTEM careers the final section of the S-STEM Survey contained twelve items, each with adefinition of a STEM career pathway and titles of related occupations. One item read, forexample, “Medical science involves
, as their normal patterns of activities, such as sleep, exercise,and studying, have been disrupted. The present study seeks to gather direct evidence of howstudents are allocating their time (e.g. what activities and for what duration), in an effort to bothinform human-centered course design and to optimize student learning and well-being under theconditions of remote/multi-modal learning and beyond.Literature Review Until relatively recently, there has been little scholarly interest in how students spendtheir time outside of class. This began changing in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s when ahandful of large-scale studies indicated that student spend far less time on learning activities,such as reading or studying, than had been
1.708Sibling(s) encouraged me toward STEM career .023 .633STEM is involved in father’s career .034 .750Female students who reported being interested in an engineering career at the beginning of highschool had higher odds of choosing engineering as a career at the end of high school (OR =9.500; Table 4). It was noticeable that interest in engineering in middle school no longerincreased female students’ odds of choosing engineering as a career at the end of high school. Itcould be inferred that female students’ engineering career interest in middle school only affectedtheir interest at the beginning, not the end of high school, as students might have the option totake more
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that had been tried and thesuccess (or lack thereof) that followed. For example, if change agents are considering alternativepedagogies as an approach to achieve their course goals, they may to investigate the literaturethat supports the efficacy of student-centered pedagogies3,4,13-39.Bar r ier s to ChangeResistance to change is inevitable40,41. Recognizing its inevitability, Mauer34 encourages changeagents to anticipate and address resistance in their plans, rather than be surprised at itsoccurrence and have to improvise. Change agents who are prepared to address commonlyoccurring barriers are likely to be more effective than unprepared change agents.Research by Sunal et al.42 showed that faculty in their survey, which asked respondents
characteristics (basic information about each study), evaluation(method by which the intervention was assessed), outcomes (the main result(s) of the study).Below we describe how articles were screened and selected for inclusion in the database andhow articles were coded. We then present summary data on the 307 articles that were in thedatabase on December 15, 2005, organized, in part, by the major categories mentioned above..We conclude with some observations about the state and quality of engineering educationresearch articles in the database.Article Screening and SelectionArticles were screened and selected for inclusion in the database in two phases. In the first phase(Phase One), articles were culled from chapters 14, 15, 16, and 17 of a draft of
Characterize Reform-Oriented Instruction: The Scoop Notebook and Rating Guide. CSE Technical Report 707. National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST).10. Chambers, J.M., Carbonaro, M., Rex, M., and Grove, S. (2007). Scaffolding knowledge construction through robotic technology: A middle school case study. Electronic Journal for the Integration of Technology in Education, 6, 55-70.11. Eguchi, A. (2010). What is educational robotics? Theories behind it and practical implementation. Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, Chesapeake: AACE, pp. 4006–4014.12. Papert, S. (1993). The Children’s Machine: Rethinking Schools in