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- First-Year Programs: Recruiting and Retention
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- 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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- Joanne Kay Beckwith, University of Michigan; Laura Hirshfield, University of Michigan
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- Diversity
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- First-Year Programs
work is part of a larger study exploring the experiences of rural engineering students. Inaddition to investigating the motivations behind rural students’ decisions to pursue engineering,the study explored the formation of engineering identity and barriers rural students face whileentering an engineering community of practice [20]. A sample of the questions developed tospecifically probe the research question of this paper is as follows: • Why did you choose to attend college? • Why did you choose this university? • Why did you choose an engineering major? • What motivates you? • After graduation, do you plan to return to your rural community? Why or why not?Data AnalysisInterviews were recorded and transcribed by a
- Conference Session
- First-Year Programs: Recruiting and Retention
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- 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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- Nisha Abraham, University of Texas at Austin; Nina Kamath Telang, University of Texas at Austin
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- Diversity
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- First-Year Programs
) has thehighest impact to students’ grade outcomes, retention and graduation rates, as well as their senseof connection, belonging and positive experience in their first year. This complete research paperexamines the quantitative and qualitative impact of intentionally creating small,registration-based cohorts of students to regularly attend SI sessions, implemented at ouruniversity in a first year engineering course in fall 2020. Our results indicate that (as in othersemesters), students who attended SI sessions had statistically significant higher course GPAsthan those who did not attend, but an added benefit was that almost 40% of students in the courseregularly attended SI this fall, compared to previous fall semesters where only 12-22