Paper ID #23681Reflections of S-STEM Faculty MentorsDr. Suzette R. Burckhard P.E., South Dakota State University Dr. Burckhard earned a BS in Engineering Physics, a BS in Civil Engineering, (both from South Dakota State University) an MS in Physics. an MS in Chemical Engineering, and a PhD in Civil Engineering with emphasis in Environmental Engineering, from Kansas State University. She has been on staff at South Dakota State University since 1997 in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department where she is a professor and program coordinator for the BSCE, MSCE and PhDCE. Dr. Burckhard is a member of ASCE, ASEE
Paper ID #34016Using Motivational Theory to Implement S-STEM Activities SupportingStudent SuccessDr. Tris Utschig, Kennesaw State University Dr. Tristan T. Utschig is Director for Scholarly Teaching in the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) and is Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering at Kennesaw State University. For- merly, he was Assistant Director for CETL and the Office of Assessment at Georgia Tech, and prior to that was a tenured Associate Professor of Engineering Physics at Lewis-Clark State College. Dr. Utschig consults with faculty across the university about bringing scholarly teaching
area of drug discovery, therapeutics and nanomaterials.Dr. Armando Dominguez SolisDr. Sandie Han, New York City College of Technology Sandie Han is a Professor of Mathematics at New York City College of Technology. She has extensive experience in program design and administration, including administrative responsibilities as the chair of the math department, Computer Science program coordinator, high school program coordinator, as well as PI on the U.S. Department of Education MSEIP grant and Co-PI on the NSF-S-STEM grants. She has several publications on the theory and practice of Self-Regulated Learning, Mathematics Self-Efficacy, PLTL. Her work in Self-Regulated Learning and self-efficacy has won the 2013 CUNY
Paper ID #23678Student Preferences in Mentoring Practices and Program Features in an S-STEM Scholarship/Mentoring ProgramDr. Suzette R. Burckhard, South Dakota State University Dr. Burckhard earned a BS in Engineering Physics, a BS in Civil Engineering, (both from South Dakota State University) an MS in Physics. an MS in Chemical Engineering, and a PhD in Civil Engineering with emphasis in Environmental Engineering, from Kansas State University. She has been on staff at South Dakota State University since 1997 in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department where she is a professor and program coordinator for the
Scholarships inSTEM (S-STEM) project. Our purpose in sharing our current situation is to gain feedback fromcolleagues experienced with projects of this size and type on how to effectively make midstreamcorrections to design-based methods in ways that maintain research and project fidelity. Duringthe 2019-20 academic year, the first year of the project, we created tools and procedures for datacollection and analysis that we piloted in Spring 2020 with the first cohort of students toparticipate in the S-STEM program. With regard to supporting undergraduate students, the planfor this multi-year, grant-funded project is to scale each year, along with increasing the size ofparticipant cohorts, through the fifth and final year of the project. As a two
AC 2011-1377: DEFINING AN EVALUATION FRAMEWORK FOR UN-DERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXPERIENCESLisa Massi, University of Central Florida Dr. Lisa Massi is the Director of Operations Analysis in the UCF College of Engineering & Computer Science. Her primary responsibilities include accreditation, assessment, and data administration. She is a Co-PI of the NSF-funded S-STEM program at UCF entitled the ”Young Entrepreneur & Scholar (YES) Scholarship Program.” Her research interests include program evaluation and predictors of career intentions.Michael Georgiopoulos, University of Central Florida Michael Georgiopoulos is a Professor in the UCF Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the PI of the
innovative STEM educationprograms designed in part to increase student attitudes toward STEM subjects and careers. Thispaper describes how a team of researchers at The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation atNorth Carolina State University developed the Upper Elementary School and Middle/HighSchool Student Attitudes toward STEM (S-STEM) Surveys to measure those attitudes. Thesurveys each consist of four, validated constructs which use Likert-scale items to measurestudent attitudes toward science, mathematics, engineering and technology, 21st century skills.The surveys also contain a comprehensive section measuring student interest in STEM careers.The surveys have been administered to over 10,000 fourth through twelfth grade students inNorth
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
. She received undergraduate and graduate degrees in mechanical engineering from Duke and NC State, respectively. Her research interests include engineering education and precision manufacturing. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Use of Personas in Rating Scholarship ApplicationsIntroductionThis evidence-based practice paper introduces a method for creating subjective, holistic rubricsbased on the human-centered design concept of personas. It can be difficult to align assessmentmetrics with subjective artifacts, especially when the goal of the artifact itself is subjective. Thefaculty team who collaborated on an NSF S-STEM project faced
paperreviews the findings from the subset of longitudinal data to add to the literature related to thisinstrument and to gather feedback related to future directions for this project.BackgroundThe Campbell University’s School of Engineering is able to offer students need-basedscholarships through an NSF S-STEM grant. As part of this program, students are expected totake part in a variety of professional development activities including faculty and peermentoring, industry tours, tutoring, and internship preparation assistance. This institution islocated in a rural area with many first-generation college students in the engineering studentpopulation. The institution also accepts many students into the engineering program who mayneed an additional
-income students are also more likely to take on debt than their counterparts [1], [5]. Thereis evidence that receiving financial aid is related to increased academic achievement andpersistence [5], but the precise nature of the relation between financial aid and persistence isunclear. Although student loans are readily available, receiving student loan aid had astatistically significant negative effect on persistence for high-need (Pell-eligible) students [6].Thus, it is important to examine whether scholarships - as opposed to loan aid - exert a uniqueeffect on student persistence in engineering, as a variety of programs, including federally-fundedprograms such as the NSF Scholarships in STEM (S-STEM) program, have sought to enhanceengineering
,2003). Furthermore, Preparing Our Children (NSB, 1999) urges partnerships betweenuniversities and local schools to increase the mathematics and science abilities of high schoolgraduates. TechSTEP directly addresses these concerns.“the University”’s STEM Talent Expansion Program (TechSTEP) has two major componentsthat will yield increased numbers of graduates in engineering, mathematics, and science. Onecomponent is a high school partnership program focused on recruiting new students into ourSTEM programs, while the other component is a summer enrichment and mentoring programfocused on increased retention of first-year college students. The recruiting component is an expansion of pilot
accepted for publication in Science Scope.4. Daugherty, J., Custer, R. L., Brockway, D., & Spake, D. A. (2012). Engineering Concept Assessment: Design and development (AC 2012-2987). American Society for Engineering Education.5. Greene, B. A. (2015). Measuring cognitive engagement with self-report scales: Reflections from over 20 years of research. Educational Psychologist, 50, 14-30. doi:10.1080/00461520.2014.9892306. Unfried, A., Faber, M., Stanhope, D. S., & Wiebe, E. (2015). The development and validation of a measure of Student Attitudes Toward Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (S-STEM). Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 1-18.7. American Association for the Advancement of Science (2017). Science
, dissemination of the resultsof this work is expected to provide a model for institutional implementation of evidence-basedpractices at colleges or universities of similar size and/or student body demographics as AAMU,a land-granted minority serving university.AcknowledgmentThis study has been supported by the S-STEM program of National Science Foundation (NSF)and MSEIP program of Department of Education (DOEd). The authors greatly appreciate thesupport and encouragement from the NSF and DOEd program officers and university colleagues.References 1. Chang, M. J., Cerna, O., Han, J., & Sáenz, V. The contradictory roles of institutional status in retaining underrepresented minorities in biomedical and behavioral science majors. The Review of
this field including learning and predictive analytics for student success, S-Stem NSF grant, Research Practitioner Partnership NSF grant, and Spatial Reasoning Impact Study in CS1.Nasrin Dehbozorgi, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Researcher and Ph.D. candidate in the department of Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Conducting research in the area of CSE by applying AI/NLP to do learning analytics, devel- oping models to operationalize attitude in collaborative conversations and pedagogical design patterns.Aileen Benedict, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Aileen Benedict is a Ph.D. student and GAANN Fellow at UNC Charlotte, who has been mentored in teaching since 2016
Paper ID #8899The Influence of Student-Faculty Interactions on Post-Graduation Intentionsin a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program: A Case StudyDr. Lisa Massi, University of Central Florida Dr. Lisa Massi is the Director of Operations Analysis for Accreditation, Assessment, & Data Adminis- tration in the College of Engineering & Computer Science at the University of Central Florida. She is Co-PI of a NSF-funded S-STEM program and program evaluator for an NSF-funded REU program. Her research interests include factors that impact student persistence and career development in the STEM fields.Caitlyn R
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models, statewide pre-college math initiatives, teacher and faculty professional development programs, and S-STEM pro- grams.Ms. Olivia W. Murch, Purdue University Senior at Purdue University pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in Biological, Food Process, Engi- neering. Currently conducting research under Dr. Ferguson through Engineering Education.Dr. Daniel M. Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Daniel M. Ferguson is CATME Managing Director and a research associate at Purdue University. Prior to coming to Purdue he was Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at Ohio Northern University. Before assuming that position he was Associate Director of the Inter-Professional Studies