Conference Session

Mechanics Division (MECHS) Technical Session 1B

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Geoffrey Recktenwald, Michigan State University; Julian Ly Davis, University of Southern Indiana; Amie Baisley, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics Division (MECHS)

(DCI) or the proposed Rigid BodyDynamics Concept inventories (RBDCI) have been shown to be effective at identifying studentmisconceptions and guiding instructor efforts [1,2]. In their 2020 paper on the propagation ofthe use of concept inventories in Mechanical Engineering [3], Cornwell and Self et. al. suggestthat instructor adoption of concept inventories depends on a variety of factors including theinstitutional context, learning context, and the instructor’s interaction with the conceptwarehouse community.In other work, researches have explored the role of institutional and learning contexts on studentsuccess [4], student perceptions [5,6,7], and student self-efficacy. Additionally, by changing thelearning contexts, instructor’s outlooks