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Educational Research and Methods Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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So Yoon Yoon, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Miles Griffin Evans; Johannes Strobel, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

. Page 25.466.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Development of the Teaching Engineering Self-Efficacy Scale (TESS) for K-12 TeachersTo teach engineering in K-12 classrooms means, for most teachers, to teach something for whichthey are not adequately prepared: pre-service teacher training does not require learningengineering and there are no teaching licenses for engineering teaching1. There is, however, alarge movement to provide in-service teachers with professional development to help themintegrate engineering into their classrooms2,3. A well-established construct to measure teachers’preparedness and effect on students’ achievement is “teacher self-efficacy towards

Conference Session

Epistemic Research

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Golnaz Arastoopour, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Naomi C. Chesler, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Cynthia M. D'Angelo, University of Wisconsin, Madison; David Williamson Shaffer, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Jamon W. Opgenorth; Carrie Beth Reardan, Epistemic Games; Nathan Patrick Haggerty, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Clayton Guy Lepak

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. National Science Foundation, Science and Engineering Indicators 2010, 2010, NSF.4. Marra, R.M., et al., Women engineering students and self-efficacy: A multi-year, multi-institution study of women engineering student self-efficacy. Journal of Engineering Education, 2009. 98(1): p. 27-38.5. Atkinson, R.D. and M.J. Mayo, Refueling the US Innovation Economy: Fresh Approaches to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education. 2011.6. Huang, G., N. Taddese, and E. Walter, Entry and Persistence of Women and Minorities in College Science and Engineering Education. Education Statistics Quarterly, 2000. 2(3): p. 59-60.7. Berenson, S.B., et al., Voices of women in a software engineering course

Conference Session

Understanding Our Students I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kyle B. Reed, University of South Florida

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students who had hobbies related to engineering and studentswho had pre-engineering classes had significantly higher self-efficacy measures than studentswithout these interests or extra classes in first year students. A survey of first year engineeringstudents’ self-efficacy beliefs found that students’ motivation to succeed in the course and theirunderstanding of the material were ranked as the most influential factors that would contribute totheir success in the course10. Ponton et al.13 suggest that professors can enhance a student’s self-efficacy by developing skills, peer interaction, encouraging students, and explaining copingstrategies, all of which are important for practicing engineers.Self-efficacy can be difficult to measure since it is

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Research in Engineering Education I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rebecca Brent, Education Designs, Inc.

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implementationEvaluation activities were designed for each of the three principal components of the project andthe retreat. • Scholars study groups: An online survey collected data on the senior and emerging leaders’ motivation for committing three years to the project and baseline data on their personal and professional goals and leadership self-efficacy. The groups met monthly for facilitated discussions and work on their projects, and each of the first two years of the grant ended with an appreciative inquiry session for each group. (Appreciative inquiry is an evaluation technique to gain insight into the strengths of a project directly from the people involved and have them identify ways to build on those strengths.5

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Understanding Our Students I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Herold, University of California, Riverside; Thomas Stahovich, University of California, Riverside

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would be“too burdensome,” although no evidence for this is provided. Because there was nostatistical analysis, the results were inconclusive.Hall and Vance8 investigate the impact that self-explanation has on student performance aswell as self-efficacy in a statistics course. Students in the experimental groupcollaboratively solved problems in teams of three, providing self-explanations of thereasoning behind their answers to one another. Students in a control group solved the sameproblems individually. This study showed that students who generated collaborativeself-explanation perform significantly better at solving problems than students who did not.What these studies have in common is their use of summative performance assessments toshow the

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julie P. Martin, Clemson University; Matthew K. Miller, Clemson University; Marian S. Kennedy, Clemson University

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Educational Research and Methods

Foundation’s Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)initiative aims to recruit students to careers in research and has funded over 1,700 sites totalingover $435 million (of which over 600 sites receiving $171 million in funding are presentlyactive)1. Research by the STEM education community concurs that these research experienceshave a positive influence on undergraduates in a variety of ways. Yet, many of the specificaspects of the nature benefits to participants and how they accrue to participants are not knownor well understood.Prior work by the first author used Lent’s Social Cognitive Career Theory to study the impact ofREU programs on undergraduate students’ self efficacy for graduate school and researchcareers2. In this prior work, we

Conference Session

Research Informing Teaching Practice I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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George D. Ricco, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Noah Salzman, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Russell Andrew Long, Purdue University; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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level. Several studies in higher education have demonstrated the effect of faculty on studentachievement. Within the engineering context, Vogt (2008) found that faculty distance (definedas courses taught in a large lecture format with limited opportunities to interact directly with theprofessor) had a strong negative influence on self-efficacy, academic confidence, andGPA.6 These effects can be particularly pronounced among female students, who tend to report Page 25.1146.5greater numbers of negative interactions with professors and a corresponding loss of academicconfidence.32 Further evidence of the effect of a faculty member on

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Research Informing Teaching Practice II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Flora P. McMartin, Broad-based Knowledge, LLC; Joseph G. Tront, Virginia Tech; Sarah Giersch, Broad-based Knowledge, LLC

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. Page 25.698.1414. Morgan, G. Wolf, A., Mcmartin, F., Iverson E., Manduca, C., & Morrill, J. (2007). What do faculty need and want from digital libraries? Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. June 18 – 23, Vancouver, B.C.15. NEEDS (1997). Archived history found at: http://www.engineeringpathway.com/ep/premier/2009/general.jhtml;jsessionid=LZTDQON3G2AZVABAVRS SFEQ.16. Orczyk, C. (1990). The effects of critical career events on self-efficacy and scholarly achievement. Report: ED325061. 15 pp.17. Regan M. & Sheppard, S. (1996). "Interactive Multimedia Courseware and Hands-on Learning Experience: An Assessment Study," ASEE Journal of Engineering Education. 85 (2), pp. 123-130.18. Shephard, K

Conference Session

Epistemic Research

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ji Hyun Yu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Johannes Strobel, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

, S. (2007). The cognitive-situative divide and the problem of conceptual change. Educational Psychologist, 42(1), 55-66.36. Schraw, G.J. & Olafson, L.J. (2008). Assessing teachers’ epistemological and ontological worldviews. In M. S. Khine (ed.) Knowing, knowledge, and beliefs: Epistemological studies across diverse cultures (pp.25-44). Netherlands: Springer. Schunk, D. H. (1991). Self-efficacy and academic motivation. Educational Psychologist, 26. 207-232.37. Olafson, L., Schraw, G., & Vander Veldt, M. (2010). Consistency and development of teachers’ epistemological and ontological world views. Learning Environments Research