Conference Session

Undergraduate Peer Educators: Mentoring, Observing, Learning

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Topics

ASEE Board of Directors

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

instructor is progressively scaling up the course toaccommodate larger numbers of students than what an instructor could handle in traditionaltechnical writing courses. In the fall 2017 semester, the instructor accommodated 50 students intwo sections, and in the spring 2018 semester, the instructor allowed that number to rise 75students across two sections. For the fall 2018 semester, the plan is to accommodate 100 studentsacross two sections. To assist the instructor in the mentoring and grading, the course uses a teamof undergraduate mentors. These undergraduates have excelled in the engineering writing course. While technical writing courses such as at the University of Texas at Austin [3] andengineering courses such as in the Mechanical

Conference Session

Undergraduate Peer Educators: Mentoring, Observing, Learning

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico; Catherine Anne Hubka, University of New Mexico; Eva Chi, University of New Mexico

Tagged Topics

ASEE Board of Directors

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

thestrategy, and then detailing its research base.Pre-writing. Pre-writing tasks provide opportunities for students to consider what they know anddon’t know about a topic, to organize their writing, and to plan their approach to writing [36, 38,39]. It includes all activities that culminate in a piece of writing: minute papers, reflections,assigned readings and responses, prelab assignments and discussions, and documenting theexperiment itself.Multimodal writing. This form of writing means incorporating multiple modes, such as images,audio, video, and text, and following discipline-specific or genre conventions [40]. Withinengineering genres, this commonly means interpreting tables and figures that display data orresults.Feedback and revision

Conference Session

Undergraduate Peer Educators: Mentoring, Observing, Learning

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chandra Anne Turpen, University of Maryland, College Park; Ayush Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park; Jennifer Radoff, University of Maryland, College Park; Andrew Elby, University of Maryland, College Park; Hannah Sabo; Gina Marie Quan, University of Maryland, College Park

Tagged Topics

ASEE Board of Directors, Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, and responding to students’ ideas in ways that help students build on their priorknowledge (Richards & Robertson, 2016; Sherin, Jacobs, & Philipp, 2011). As Ball & Cohen(2013, p. 16) put it, “Examining student thinking is a core activity of [teachers’] practice.” Inorder to help teachers develop their responsiveness, teacher educators and teacher professionallearning communities typically rely on artifacts of classroom practice (i.e. examples of studentwork, video or audio recordings of classroom events, or field notes on classroom events) toanalyze pedagogical moves/approaches, to investigate the possible consequences of theirpedagogical approach for students’ learning, and to consider intentions and plans for futurepedagogical