Conference Session

Software & Web-based Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katie Evans, Louisiana Tech University; Paul Hummel, Louisiana Tech University; Miguel Gates, Louisiana Tech University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

average, students in online learningconditions performed modestly better than those receiving face-to-face instruction” [5]. Similarresults were found in a study of college algebra students at a community college [6]. Specifically,online homework was found to be “just as effective as textbook homework in helping studentslearn college algebra and in improving students’ mathematics self-efficacy,” as measured by theMathematics Self-Efficacy Scale. Further, it was observed that “online homework may be evenmore effective for helping the large population of college algebra students who enroll in thecourse with inadequate prerequisite math skills.” Some universities report that students performbetter on exams when using WeBWorK thus boosting student

Conference Session

SDR & Programming in ECE Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wesley G. Lawson, University of Maryland, College Park; Stephen Secules, University of Maryland, College Park; Shuvra Bhattacharyya, University of Maryland, College Park, and Tampere University of Technology; Ayush Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

alternative course better represents real world engineering.Initial Findings from 2015 cohortInitial analysis of the 2015 cohort has shown tentative gains on self-efficacy and identitymeasures for alternative over traditional course students, however with the inclusion of a finalquestion asking students to identify their prior programming background, race, and gender (anintuition about the importance of these categories came about from our qualitative researchfindings) we noticed that many more of the 14 students who had taken the survey from thetraditional course had no prior programming background, and had correspondingly lower self-efficacy responses on all measures. We intend to continue pursuing the analysis on the 2015cohort stratified by