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Research Methodologies – Session 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Neha Kardam, University of Washington; Shruti Misra, University of Washington; Denise Wilson, University of Washington

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students want from TAs in engineering education settings.Prior Use of NLP in EducationThe use of NLP in education has been significant, particularly in the assessment andclassification of student learning. Assessment involves determining the quality and level ofstudent learning, while classification aims to comprehend student learning without evaluating it.Automated assessment is an attractive solution for large student populations, and one of the mostcommon applications of NLP in education is the assessment of student writing in the Test ofEnglish as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) [3]. NLP is used to evaluate grammar, mechanics, wordusage, complexity, style, and organization of student essays. NLP-based assessments havedemonstrated remarkable

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Reviewing Emergent Topics and Theory in Engineering Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alexander V. Struck Jannini, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Muhsin Menekse, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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approach and avoidance achievement motivation.,” J. Pers. Soc. Psychol., vol. 76, no. 4, pp. 628–644, 1999, doi: 10.1037//0022-3514.76.4.628.[37] S. Purzer, T. J. Moore, and E. Dringenberg, “Engineering cognition: A process of knowledge acquisition and application,” in Cognition, Metacognition, and Culture in STEM Education. Innovations in Science Education and Technology, Y. J. Dori, Z. R. Mevarech, and D. R. Baker, Eds. Springer, 2018, pp. 167–190.[38] R. Ferrari, “Writing narrative style literature reviews,” Med. Writ., vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 230– 235, 2015, doi: 10.1179/2047480615z.000000000329.[39] J. A. Byrne, “Improving the peer review of narrative literature reviews,” Res. Integr. Peer Rev., vol

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 28

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Youla Ali, University of Oklahoma; Javeed Kittur, University of Oklahoma

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into effective online teaching strategies. She wishes for her contributions to enhance course interaction and ensure student perseverance in asynchronous engineering education for peers who rely on online learning options. In summer 2023, Youla was awarded a fellowship by The Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity (UReCA) at the University of Oklahoma. This fellowship enabled her to complete a Systematic Literature Review on asynchronous online engineering education under the title ”Teaching Online Engineering: A Systematic Literature Review”. Her research has contributed to identifying emerging themes in six finalist scholarly papers on asynchronous online engineering education and has offered

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Pedagogy and Instructional Practices

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yinqi (Anna) Zhang, Penn State University; Brian Belland, Penn State University

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’ perspective, hence there isa moral obligation concerning how they write. Reporting is the process where the authors hope tobring people together. Following Kvale's [39] guidelines, when the authors reported the analysisresult in the next section, they contextualized and interpreted the quotes while making themrelevant to the general writing. The authors rendered the conversations into a readable, writtentext format, and the maximum length of the interview quotes is no more than half a page. Onlythe most essential quotes are presented. ‘How to dialogically engage in reading and writing andmake the piece reader-ly?’ was a concern while they were writing up the piece. The goal is neverto generalize the stories. Everything we look at here is not

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Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katrina Marie Robertson; Hadi Ali, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Jonathan M. Adams, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Prescott; Elizabeth Ashley Rea, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Prescott

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is an assistant professor of rhetoric and composition and the writing program admin- istrator at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, AZ. His research on rhetorical theory, in- frastructure, and communication pedagogy informs his teaching of courses in rhetoric, composition, and technical communication in engineering.Elizabeth Ashley Rea, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Prescott ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Fostering Educational Equity in EngineeringAbstract: This is a research paper. Students in introductory engineering courses face challengescommunicating and integrating their ideas in team projects. Often these challenges with

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 6

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joel Alejandro Mejia, The University of Texas at San Antonio

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, social constructions and hierarchies, historical background, andsocioeconomic status among other social constructs. As Anzaldúa explored her ownupbringing and lived reality, she deconstructed those spaces she inhabited where she faceddiscrimination and ambiguity to imagine and (re)shape a third space where new realitiescould exist [16]. Through a process of self-reflexivity, Anzaldúa explains, Nepantla becomesa (re)imagined space rather than a dichotomy of worlds [16]. Anzaldúa claims that Nepantlasoften emerge through writing – the writing that comes from deep and critical reflection thateventually leads to a process that catalyzes transformation.Nepantla is also a way to explore the world through lived experience and engage indecolonial

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 23

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Godwyll Aikins, Florida Institute of Technology; Catherine G. P. Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University; Kim-Doang Nguyen, Florida Institute of Technology

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M.S. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering and her PhD in Engineering Education from Purdue University. Her research expertise lies in characterizing graduate-level attrition, persistence, and career trajectories; engineering writing and communication; and methodological development.Dr. Kim-Doang Nguyen, Florida Institute of Technology Dr. Kim-Doang Nguyen is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the Florida Institute of Technology. His research interests include engineering education research, data science, machine learning, robotics, and dynamical systems. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024How Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 11

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Paul Fernandez, Utah Valley University; Walker Eads, Utah Valley University; Israd Hakim Jaafar, Utah Valley University; Abolfazl Amin, Utah Valley University; Abdennour C. Seibi, Utah Valley University

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, persistence, and has beenlinked to a boost in students’ motivation to learn (Ditta, Strickland-Hughes, Cheung, & Wu,2020). Undergraduate research experience was also found to better equip students for graduateschool or careers (Sell, Naginey, & Stanton, 2017; Altman, et al., 2019). Through undergraduateresearch, students learn professional skills such as maintaining notes, identifying researchproblems, reading scientific literature, collaborating with peers in a research setting, and writingand presenting findings to an audience in their field of discipline (Carpenter & Pappenfus, 2009).Undergraduate research is said to be one of ten high impact practices shown to enhance andimprove college student performance and success (Kuh, 2008). A

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Disciplinary Engineering Education Research – Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joreen Arigye, Purdue University; Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Joseph A. Lyon, Purdue University; Elsje Pienaar

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ZPD was proposed by Lev Vygotsky as a sociocultural theory that describes learning anddevelopment [10]. The ZPD conceives learning as the space between what a learner can dowithout assistance and what the learner can do with competent assistance. A common way totranslate implications from the ZPD to the design of learning interventions is by providingstudents with scaffolding. Scaffolding refers to all types of support and guidance offered in theclassroom either by the instructor or peers or supported by technology [11].In the context of higher education, scaffolding refers to teaching techniques or tools that supportstudents' learning. Students are provided with learning supports that help them accomplish tasksthat they normally would not be

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Disciplinary Engineering Education Research – Session 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nourhan E. Elatky, Rowan University; Jenny Nguyen Hoang; Mason Elwell; Ronan Connor Harkins; Juan M. Cruz, Rowan University; Jie Li, Rowan University

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interviewee's consent. The interview was fully structured, and the interviewersfollowed the interview protocol to ensure that all the points were covered. iv. Analysis ● Transcription: The eight completed interviews were then transcribed using the online platform “otter” [ 21]. Then the transcripts were revised by the research team to ensure transcription accuracy. ● Coding: We adopted the thematic analysis coding approach with the following six-step process [22]: Familiarization We started by reading the interviews and familiarizing ourselves with their details. In addition to memoing and writing early insights. Coding We started with one

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Disciplinary Engineering Education Research – Session 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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G. R. Marvez, Tufts University Center for Engineering Education and Outreach; Greses Perez, Tufts University

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Multilingual Board GameIntroductionSerious games are a category of games that are often used in education to provide access tocomplex systems. In past research and curriculum development, engineering teachers haveimplemented curriculum around STEM-focused games [1], such as for urban planning [2],transportation engineering [1], chemistry education [3] and computational thinking [4]. Due tothe increased interactive engagement of games compared to lecture [5], [6], [7], engineeringeducators have utilized games to positively impact students' learning. However, theseeducational games are often only available in English. Students whose first language (L1) is notEnglish may be limited in how they present their ideas to peers in these playful spaces

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 10

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Serena Mao, Harvey Mudd College; David Chen, Harvey Mudd College; Magdalena Jones, Harvey Mudd College; Aye Mon Htut-Rosales, Harvey Mudd College; Laura Palucki Blake; Leah Mendelson, Harvey Mudd College; Steven Santana, Harvey Mudd College

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course has an introductory Physics class in Mechanics and a Writing course asprerequisites. Participants consist of students enrolled in the course (1,2). Enrolled students aretypically in their first or second year and often select this class to explore engineering as theirmajor. Students learn engineering design and manufacturing techniques, utilizing their learningto solve ill-defined problems on teams. Projects require both conceptual design and tangible,mechanical solutions for an external client. In addition to engineering design, students learnteamwork through activities centered in giving and receiving feedback, resolving conflict, andleadership. Teams create contracts, meeting agendas, and project management documents as theywork

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 21

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kelsey Scalaro, University of Nevada, Reno; Indira Chatterjee, University of Nevada, Reno; Ann-Marie Vollstedt, University of Nevada, Reno; Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno

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], but less is known regarding howengineering students develop these recognition beliefs. Existing identity work has illustrated that students perceive recognition differentlydepending on who the recognition is coming from [10], [13], [14]. The difference betweensources of recognition is most often explored in terms of the prevalence of recognition fromdifferent groups including peers, family, and faculty. Engineering faculty have been identified ashigh impact sources of recognition, but this has been mostly explored with respect to thefrequency of interaction with engineering students in an educational context [13], [15], [16].While recognition from engineering faculty has been considered supportive of students’ overallrecognition beliefs

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 8

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pablo Frank Bolton, Smith College; Liberty Rose Lehr, Smith College; Rahul Simha, The George Washington University; Michelle Lawson, Smith College

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Paper ID #41712The Justification Effect on Two-Tier Multiple-Choice ExamsDr. Pablo Frank Bolton, Smith College I am a Lecturer in the Computer Science department at Smith College. I received my PhD. from the George Washington University under the direction of Professor Rahul Simha. I currently teach a variety of undergraduate courses and have taught graduate courses in the past. My research is currently focused on STEM, especially on the areas of identifying misconceptions, creating scalable and informative assessments, and in the use of active learning techniques such as learning-by-teaching, and peer learning

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Computer Science Education and AI research

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katherine Mao; Sharon Ferguson, University of Toronto; James N. Magarian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Alison Olechowski, University of Toronto

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, aligning with the profession’s values, and developing a professional identity[6]. Thus, the study of social belonging confidence in students, particularly through professionalsocialization, is a key step in understanding persistence in the field of ML/AI. We study socialbelonging through the lens of confidence, another predictor of persistence [7]–[9]. We define socialbelonging confidence as how confident a person feels that they will fit in with the social and culturalaspects of a profession and develop meaningful relationships with their peers. Belonging uncertainty,defined by Walton and Cohen [10], may be interpreted as a lack of this confidence.Lower levels of confidence have been found to negatively affect persistence of women and girls

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Student Experiences and Development – Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Reeping, University of Cincinnati; Sushant Makarand Padhye, University of Cincinnati; Nahal Rashedi

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complexity. R is also open source, making the platform and packagemore accessible to the community. We chose to write our package in R because of theexisting packages for analyzing data from MIDFIELD, namely midfieldr [16] andmidfielddata [17]. The midfieldr contains ready-to-go functions for properly processing dataat the student level, and the second package is a stratified random sample from MIDFIELDfor users to practice on and explore. The data produced from this project will be madeavailable in a similar format. We anticipate the output synergizing with the broader goal ofexpanding access to and participation in MIDFIELD’s development [18].Data CollectionAlthough originally intended for project communication alone and standardization to

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 20

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lise Clara Mabour, Tufts University; Geling Xu, Tufts University; Brian Gravel, Tufts University

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many knowledge sources, practices, andmethodologies that inform how they design and conduct research and their future orientations inthe discipline. Both graduate student researchers co-designed with the end user to developprojects or products [1]. Graduate student researchers in engineering education constantly designresearch studies, tools, and environments with their advisors, peers, and other researchers.However, opportunities to co-design engineering projects with learners and educators are lesscommon for engineering education graduate students. Yet the work that graduate studentresearchers develop can influence K-12 educators and students and vice versa. Thus, graduatestudent researchers must have experience working with learners and

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kevin E Wandke, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Christopher D. Schmitz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Jonathon Kenneth Schuh, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Yang Victoria Shao, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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encouragestudents to discuss their predictions of what will happen with their peers, rather than justanswering with iClicker, as this has been shown to further improve student learning [8, 14].Lastly, we plan to reshoot some of these videos utilizing best practices to improve theireffectiveness, such as showing demonstrations from a first-person perspective [14], writing outkey information as the demonstration is given rather than just displaying it [15], and focusing onvisual tabletop demonstrations [16]. We believe that these changes can further improve thequality of demonstration videos to improve the overall educational experience of our students byproviding high quality, exciting demonstrations to them in a course where they previously didnot have

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 18

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marino Nader, University of Central Florida; Michelle Taub, University of Central Florida; Sierra Outerbridge, University of Central Florida; Harrison N. Oonge, University of Central Florida; Hyoung Jin Cho, University of Central Florida

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transition issues, and articulation. Harrison holds a B.A. in Education (Kenyatta University, Kenya), a M.A. in Special Education (WVU), and Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instruction (WVU). Short Bio: Dr. Hyoung Jin Cho is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Central Florida. His research interest is in miniaturized sensors and sample handling devices. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed journal and proceeding papers and has 12 and 6 patents granted in the U.S. and Korea, respectively. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 2002, M.S. and B.S. in Materials Engineering from Seoul National University in 1991 and 1989. He worked

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 30

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julianne Latimer, Georgia Institute of Technology; Mary Lynn Realff, Georgia Institute of Technology; Clara Blue Templin, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jill Fennell, Georgia Institute of Technology; Christie Stewart, Georgia Institute of Technology; Lesley Baradel, Georgia Institute of Technology

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andcourse satisfaction and can work concurrently with self-reflection opportunities.Recent developments in the field suggest that incorporating positive psychology can enhancemore established practices and lead to student “flourishing.” Flourishing is defined as “growingvigorously; thriving; prosperous” and can be applied as a goal in a classroom setting through“teachers and students using their own strengths, seeing the strengths in others and mobilizinggroup-level strengths to achieve a common goal” [23]. When using common positivepsychology, or “the scientific study of human flourishing,” one study found the students in thecourse that integrated positive psychology in “required readings, writing assignments, andengaged learning activities” had

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 12

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew Bahnson, Purdue University; Eric Trevor McChesney, University of Pittsburgh; Carlie Laton Cooper, University of Georgia; Allison Godwin, Cornell University; Linda DeAngelo, University of Pittsburgh; Kevin R. Binning

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to understand and do well in thesubject (or competence and performance), and recognition by meaningful others (e.g., peers,instructors, family, etc.)[42], [43]. This framing is based on prior work in science education.Carlone and Johnson [44] developed a framework for science role identity from interviews withwomen of Color professionals that included performance, competence, and recognition. Later, intranslating this framework to undergraduate students in physics, Hazari and colleagues [45] addedinterest as an important facet of the student experience and developed quantitative measuresassociated with the four constructs. They found that for undergraduate students, performance andcompetence were not two separate factors but rather a single

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Student Assessments and Tests

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kai Jun Chew, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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point in the past was negotiated with the otherdepartments in sort of an agreement that they came to in how the students will be graded. I don'treally know the details of that it's been there for longer than I have…And we've just kind of keptdoing that same thing.” It must be noted that instructors had autonomy to write their own midterm exams as Jacknoted that the instructors were “responsible for making the tests for their sections,” but not thefinal exam as the final was a standardized, multiple-choice exam for all sections and was writtenby the course supervisor. In triangulating this finding with the public documents from the institution, such as thefaculty and student handbooks, it showed consistency in one dimension and

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Research Methodologies – Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew Bahnson, Pennsylvania State University; Catherine G. P. Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University

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American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity (CoNECD), Frontiers in Education (FIE), as well as major psychological con- ferences.Catherine G. P. Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University Catherine G.P. Berdanier is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Penn- sylvania State University. She earned her B.S. in Chemistry from The University of South Dakota, her M.S. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering and her PhD in Engineering Education from Purdue University. Her research expertise lies in characterizing graduate-level attrition, persistence, and career trajectories; engineering writing and communication; and

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Self-Regulation and Learning

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sakhi Aggrawal, Purdue University; Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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twentieth centuries. The creation of MIT'sUndergraduate Research Opportunities Program in 1969 encouraged an explosion in popularitysuch that Undergraduate Research Programs (URPs) became fairly common globally by the1990s.Developing and maintaining URPs benefit students, faculty mentors, and the university equally.Incorporating a research component along with a sound academic foundation enables students togain research and professional experience, work on real-world applications, develop oral andwritten communication skills as well as better relationships with faculty and peers [1]. Accordingto Thiry et al. [2], "Through coursework and out-of-class experiences, students describedlearning to work and think independently, to take responsibility for

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Computer Science Education and AI research

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lily R. Liang, University of the District of Columbia; Briana Lowe Wellman, University of the District of Columbia; Rui Kang, Georgia College & State University

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, technical support, and encouragement. • GiggleBot programming workshop. One ExCITE student volunteer demonstrated three GiggleBots [16] to the CS I students. Three CS I students and five ACM/ACM- W members participated. Among these five students, two were freshmen, and three were upperclassmen. The presenter demonstrated how to drive a GiggleBot with a pre-programmed Microbit [17] and then let the participants do the same. The students also plugged markers into the GiggleBots, to let the robots draw lines on the papers on the floor by moving. Then the students were divided into groups to write programs for the robots on the computers in the lab and then download their code to the robots to

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Work-in-Progress Session: Exploring Learning and Development in Engineering Courses

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Courtney June Faber, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Lorna Treffert, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Alexis Gillmore, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Isabel A. Boyd, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Chulin Chen, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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criticism include forums where methods, ideas, assumptions, and reasoning can beevaluated and critiqued by the community. In the context of EER teams, these venues could beformal (e.g. an advisory board meeting or peer review process) or informal (e.g. a hallway con-versation or sidebar conversation during a meeting). They might be internal, only including groupmembers, or external to the group. The modes of communication in a venue may be spoken (e.g. ameeting or phone call) or written (e.g. an email or peer review). Additionally, the venue could havevaried degrees of collaboration involved in the critical activities (e.g. a team discussion regardingthe solution to a problem vs a team delegating tasks to be completed). We anticipate that

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 23

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Leslie Bostwick, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Alex George, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Trinity Lee, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Zachary Del Rosario, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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: Statistics educators broadly agree that “(a)nyserious discussion of statistical thinking must examine the role of 'variation'” [3]. In this work,we use the phrase “statistical variability” to refer to variability as it is viewed by statisticians: anubiquitous phenomenon to be directly studied and modeled.Despite its importance, prior failures in engineering can be traced to the neglect of variability [4].In the 1950s, design of aircraft for “the average man” led to uncontrollable aircraft [5]. At theheight of this issue, as many as 17 pilots crashed in a single day [6]. Similar issues persist inmodern engineering practice: As of writing, female passengers are crudely modeled as a scaledversion of the male median in automobile crash test practice [7

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Student Assessments and Tests

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Viyon Dansu, Florida International University; Yashin Brijmohan, University of Nebraska Lincoln; Nathaniel Hunsu, University of Georgia

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cases hence the use of a collective case study design. Crowe et al. [17] were of theopinion that each individual case should be analyzed separately before conducting a cross-casecomparison to explore the similarities in their perceptions of self-assessment. Drawing on Croweet al. [17], the multiple data sets were coded separately and analyzed using the NVivo dataanalysis software. An inductive thematic analysis was conducted on both data sets. The finalcodebook was conceptualized using both the self-regulation theory [15] and the student self-assessment cycle [3]. The authors completed multiple iterations of coding and engaged in criticalreviews of codes by peer debriefers [16]. Thereafter, a cross-case comparison was conducted toexplore the

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Work-in-Progress Session: Understanding Issues Faced by Graduate Students and Faculty

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Todd M. Fernandez, Georgia Institute of Technology; Shayla Ellington, Georgia Institute of Technology

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by Monfort et al., [15], we also drew ontheir methods. We added and adjusted questions to fit the participants’ primary stance as learners as opposed toemerging educators and to fit the disciplinary shift from ‘science’ into ‘engineering’. We sought to use broad,general, terminology to avoid evoking a socially desirable response from participants (e.g., ‘good teaching’ asopposed to ‘effective learning’)[21]. Such concerns also motivated having an undergraduate peer with lowerpower distance to participants be the interviewer [22,23]. The major interview questions appear in the appendix.Participants were interviewed once using typical interview techniques that included asking probing questions togather specific examples and deeper explanation

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Exploration of Written and Team Communication

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kristin L. Schaefer P.E., UH; Jorge Rosales; Jerrod A. Henderson, University of Houston

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quantitative summarydimensions such as total word count, the number of “big” words (longer than 6 letters), andpercentage of the dictionary’s words appearing in the text, as well as various psychologicalcategories, using both standard and custom dictionaries [8]. The psychological portion using thestandard dictionary reports four summary measures (analytical thinking, clout, authenticity, andemotional tone) and nine dimensions (linguistic, drives, cognition, affect, social, culture,lifestyle, physical, perception, and conversation).The four LIWC summary measures provide their analysis of the text as a dichotomy comparisonfrom a normalized percentage of several variables [7]. Lower analytical thinking scores indicatemore informal, personable writing