Paper ID #5990Lights, Camera, Action!: Peer-to-Peer Learning through Graduate StudentVideosDr. Kimberly Grau Talley PE P.E., Texas State University - San Marcos Dr. Kimberly G. Talley is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Technology at Texas State University - San Marcos and a licensed Professional Engineer. She received her Ph.D. and M.S.E. from the University of Texas at Austin in Structural Engineering. Her undergraduate degrees in History and Construction Engineering and Management are from North Carolina State University. Dr. Talley teaches courses in the Construction Science and Management Program
, Ireland. Page 26.1776.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Writing and Implementing Successful S-STEM ProposalsAbstractFor over 10 years, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has been funding S-STEM proposals.The S-STEM program “makes grants to institutions of higher education to support scholarshipsfor academically talented students demonstrating financial need, enabling them to enter theSTEM workforce or STEM graduate school following completion of an associate, baccalaureate,or graduate-level degree in science, technology, engineering or mathematics disciplines1.”Currently
. Page 15.826.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Keys to Publishing in Peer Reviewed JournalsAbstractA plethora of literature exists to which new engineering educators can refer that will assist themsucceed as scholars. Blocking out time to write every day or every week; learning to say “no”;ignoring bad reviews and heeding critical reviews; reading; writing, writing, writing; exhibiting awillingness to change; being flexible; and being reasonable are included among the suggestionsthe literature promotes. The intent of this paper in contrast was to provide new engineeringeducators with a framework for negotiating the journal publication process. In particular, thepaper addresses the procedures for producing a
, without having to waituntil all students’ work has been graded. Indeed, peer assessment is one of the fewscalable approaches to assessment: as the amount of work to assess increases, theresources available for assessment increase proportionally.Perhaps the most frequent use of peer assessment is for teaching writing. Writing for anaudience of their peers forces them to explain themselves well enough so that they can be 1understood by non-experts. It also gives them the benefit of seeing and responding totheir peers’ reactions to what they write.Writing is important in engineering, of course. It is a good way for students to grapplewith ethical issues that arise in their professional development [5, 6
) as a publication and its review process, and 3) bestpractices in peer reviewing (i.e., organization, quality considerations, tips for writing reviews).Triads then attend a synchronous session together, and after an icebreaker activity and a briefoverview of the program, they conduct a mock review of a short, published manuscript togetheras a triad during the session. The mock review makes use of a Structured Peer Review form,which helps triads organize their reviews (strengths, weaknesses and recommendations) andprovides the team with insights on what participants are taking into consideration as they conducttheir review. (The Structured Peer Review form, which was developed by the project team, isshown in Figure 2.) The session concludes
Good Teaching: As Identified by Your PeersAbstract:The literature on teaching is replete with definitions and examples of good teaching. Theyinclude the traits and characteristics of the best instructor/teacher/professor. They have examplesof methods and results of surveys that quantify teaching: bad or good. In recent years, theliterature included the impact of teaching on the student learner; thus, coming full circle, fromteacher to learner. The literature provides good information, but it is the analysis of the currentclassroom experience of one’s peers that provides reliable information on the teaching of today’sstudents.Since 1998, over 1000 faculty have pondered over 5 questions concerning good teaching. Theyhave pair-shared the results
summary, in bi-weekly peer review meetings with three to four other workshop participants, and in additional meetings with all workshop participants. These activities give investigators the opportunity to obtain substantive feedback on their proposals and to acquire in-depth information on a range of proposal-related issues, such as analyzing the target funding agency’s mission, presenting project ideas to program managers, improving writing and formatting, developing evaluation and assessment components, and preparing budgets. By the conclusion of the workshop, investigators have prepared a complete grant application, which they may then submit to the external funding agency of their choice.• One-on-one consultation – Separately from the
Sus- tainable Design & Construction (2016); University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri; Master of Arts in Architectural Studies (2005); Institute of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Sofia, Bulgaria; Professional Diploma in Architecture (1991). Teaching Experience: Senior Lecturer, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, College of Engineering, Construction Management Program (2010-present) Interests: Sustainable Building Design and Construction Materials; Engineering Education Pedagody American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Writing Good Reflection Questions
Paper ID #6753Those who can, teach. Immersing Students as Peer Educators to EnhanceClass ExperienceDr. Beverly Kristenson Jaeger, Northeastern University Beverly Kris Jaeger, PhD has been a member of Northeastern University’s Gateway Team, a selected group of full-time faculty expressly devoted to the first-year Engineering Program at Northeastern Uni- versity. Recently, she has joined the expanding Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at NU to continue teaching Simulation, Facilities Planning, and Human-Machine Systems. Dr. Jaeger has been the recipient of several awards in engineering education for both
Paper ID #8505People Matter: The Role of Peers and Faculty in Students’ Academic En-gagementDr. Melani Plett, Seattle Pacific UniversityDr. Denise Wilson, University of Washington Denise Wilson received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1988 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Tech- nology, Atlanta, in 1989 and 1995, respectively. She received the M.Ed. from the University of Wash- ington in 2008. She is currently an Associate Professor with the Electrical Engineering Department, University of Washington, Seattle, and she
AC 2010-1298: ATLAS - ACADEMIC TEACHING AND LEARNING ASSISTANTSSTUDY: THE USE OF PEERS AS ‘QUALITY MANAGERS’ IN ENGINEERINGCLASS INSTRUCTIONBeverly Jaeger, Northeastern University Beverly K. Jaeger, PhD is a member of Northeastern University’s Gateway Team, a select group of full-time faculty devoted to the First-year Engineering Program at Northeastern University (NU). While she concentrates on first-year engineering courses and instructs across all engineering disciplines, Dr. Jaeger also teaches specialty courses in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at NU in Digital Simulation, Facilities Planning, and Human-Machine Systems.Corey Balint, Northeastern University
group grade to produce a final grade. Note that allof these approaches assume that peer assement is also performed. In principle, staffassessment could be substituted for peer assessment, but (1) this would consume muchmore staff time, and (2) students would miss out on the metacognitive benefits ofevaluating others’ work. It is true, however, that efficiently processing peer assessmentsrequires significant IT support (see Babik et al. [27] for a discussion of the options).Table 1 shows how the four approaches compare. CPR (and the similar training programused by Coursera) contrasts with the other three approaches because (i) it is used toassess artifacts (writing, reporting, etc.) rather than student contributions to a team, andbecause it
structure is required in order to ensure fairness andreliability. Furthermore, a fair and effective peer evaluation program requires a considerableinvestment in faculty time. The minimum amount of time suggested is 4 to 6 hours perevaluation, including a minimum of 1-hr for the pre-observation meeting, 1-hr for theobservation meeting, 1-hr for the post-observation, and1-hr to write the final report[38]. Based onresearch studies and the experience of institutions in which peer review of teaching is practiced,the following elements seem to be essential[39-41]: ‚ Peer observers should be neutral and well-trained. ‚ Observers must use standardized observation reports to ensure reliability. ‚ Teams of at least two colleagues
indicated the process was meeting with more successthan the previous semester. Some students clearly continued to like the idea and appreciated theincentive to check their work for accuracy. The author also observed much more documentationof help received during the review process, but he noted that not everyone had yet bought intothe approach. The author observed a few cases of students who would take the 5% cut for nothaving peer review done at all. He also noted that there were cases of students writing notes tothe effect, “My work did not match my reviewer’s work, but I could not find the error.” Closerinspection of these comments usually found that peer review was almost always done within the15 minutes prior to the turn-in deadline, thus
structure / idea presentation strategy and because what reviewers lookfor evolves over time. Further, each agency has their own emphasis / desired presentation of theproposed project. Basically, to continue to secure funding, a person has to continually seekfunding and continually learn how to best accomplish that task.#4: Don’t attempt to plan research / write in a vacuumThe best way to learn and the quickest way to transition from unfunded proposals to fundedproposals is to get feedback and help. It’s true that trial and error learning is not the mostefficient, but peer-review mechanisms dictate this. Most new faculty are acutely aware that theyhave a fixed timeline to attain funding, but shouldn’t let this hinder their learning. Any givenidea
, the candidate's accessto the Sakai eDossier project is disabled.Read and write access is granted to the chair of the department P&T committee. By this time,external peer reviewers should have been recruited. Any other materials to which the candidatemust not have access for the purpose of maintaining confidentiality have been or are in theprocess of being collected by the department P&T committee. These confidential materials caninclude items such as peer reviews of teaching, internal letters of recommendation, and letters ofrecommendation from randomly selected former students. The chair of the department P&T Page
included timemanagement, goal setting, industry lunch (E2 only), effective learning strategies, moneymanagement and an introduction to LSU’s Communication Across the Curriculum (CxC)initiative. Industry professionals and student organization leaders were recruited toparticipate or present activities specifically to introduce the incoming freshmen to theprofessional and university communities. Activities for both programs included mockinterviewing, resume writing and planning for internships. For both the camp and the class, academic and industrial professionals givepresentations and have informal discussions about their careers and disciplines. Allstudents are exposed to the 10 degree programs/disciplines offered in the college. Peer
. Stay connected with your research sponsors – New faculty member should stay connected to research sponsors even during times that no research with that sponsor is occurring. Spend time each day writing research proposals and peer-reviewed publications – This will help to maintain a steady level of writing and accomplish proposal and paper submission goals. Encourage journal writing from M.S. and Ph.D. students – The new faculty member should encourage co-writing papers with current and past M.S. and Ph.D. students. This will assist the faculty member in producing increased levels of peer-reviewed publications. If the student writes the entire article, consider
from the model in Buskit et al.:1. A pre-observation meeting with the Collins Scholar and two observers.2. The observation itself, often videotaped.3. Observer debriefing: The two observers discuss and write up a summary of their findings.4. Self-reflection: The Collins Scholar is invited to watch the video, and writes a self- Page 26.789.2 analysis of the class session.5. A post-observation meeting to discuss the class observed, the participants’ impressions, and strategies for continued improvement.The findings from Brinko’s review of the literature on the effectiveness of peer feedback haveframed and guided the way we train our observers
students and automatically record and check their answers. Google forms provide someof the same functionality for free and without the need to install software on a server.Google forms can also be used to survey students. SALG is a specialized survey program toassess how much students have learned. For taking graphical feedback from students ontablet computers during class, Classroom Presenter and Ubiquitous Presenter are twoopen-source tools. The most widely used peer-review application is Calibrated PeerReview. Expertiza is a peer-review system that incorporates functionality for topicselection and team formation by students. Wikis are a well known collaborative space,which can be used by students to write reports and other documents
technologies will become our masters ratherthan our tools. The first two authors presented a paper in 2005 that dealt with that issue4.The authors of this paper are certainly not the only ones who have reflected on the issue ofmentoring. The next section describes some recent work done by others.Previous work done by othersPeer mentoring is the first kind of mentoring we would like to discuss. Peer mentoring occurswhen tenure track professors provide advise and support for each other. There are two ways thiscan be done. Younger faculty can write papers and make presentations describing theirexperiences to try to help other young faculty who may be facing the same situations. Thisenables the faculty member to benefit by presenting/publishing his work
orientation but before classes started to easenew faculty tension. Sessions were held on the three tenure criteria: research, teaching, andservice. In each session, a panel of three tenured faculty (one senior and two recently tenured)spoke about what was required for success and answered junior faculty questions. Following thethree sessions, the junior faculty had lunch with senior administrators and a discussion with theengineering dean.A particular problem in new faculty integration is bringing women into departments in whichfew or no women currently work. We started a women in engineering research network toconnect junior and senior women in all engineering departments, and thereby attain a criticalmass for effective peer-mentoring. The network
of the professor is to motivate the students to learn. The grading andfeedback process can significantly affect the learning process of the student. For some students,the feedback they receive on exams and assignments may be the only individualizedcommunication they obtain from the professor. At a minimum, the instructor needs tocommunicate why the students deserve the grade they received. The amount of feedback canvary. For problems done incorrectly, some instructors may point out where the error was so thestudent can avoid the same mistake in the future. Others may allow the student another chance atthe problem with the hope that the student is able to detect her/his own mistake, improving theirlearning. Writing detailed feedback can be
students interacted with their peers asthey went through the process of developing their teaching portfolios. At some institutions ofhigher education, this process of creating personal teaching portfolios has also become acommunity building opportunity as campuses develop networks of people who are interested intalking about teaching, and documenting and improving their teaching through self-reflection. Aprogram for faculty at Texas A&M includes peer interactions in the support activities and offersterm-long workshops with time for writing portfolio elements and discussing them with theirpeers and faculty developers built into the curriculum. The University of Florida also offersworkshops for faculty that include a strong peer component
draft manuscripts and make suggestions andcomments. When paper reviews are received, we have found it helpful to share these reviewswith the students so that they can see the types of comments that are typical following the blind,peer-review process. By involvement of students throughout the process, when it comes time forthem to write their first journal paper, they are familiar with the process of submitting their workfor publication in a journal.Professional PresentationsGraduate students need to make technical presentations as often as possible. While it may not bepossible for all of your graduate students to make a presentation at a national meeting, there are asignificant number of regional, local, and statewide conferences that can also
the peer-review process. For example, prior to any work being submitted by the group forpublication, students in the group not affiliated with the paper can serve as reviewers. Theyshould provide written reviews of the submission in the same manner as would occur atprofessional journal. Such student-student interaction allows them to establish a formalprofessional relationship with the colleagues in their group.As a final example, students can benefit from learning to write professional correspondenceregarding committee meetings, abstract submissions, or requests for papers. It may be necessaryto instruct the student on email etiquette (carbon copying advisor on lab correspondences, papersubmissions, etc.) including salutations and signatures
incidentresulted from an awareness of past offenses and potential future offenses related to diversity. Page 12.558.5When JI102 attempted to write her first draft of the diversity statement she did not know what tosay. She emphasized that she did not think it was very good. When she brought her diversitystatement to the peer review and discussion session it was not a priority for her to have the groupread it and comment. JI102 stated that these feelings of inadequacy about her diversity statementstemmed from her previous experience. She was unaware of how much the incident that occurredduring the previous diversity workshop had negatively impacted her
what extent the following factors contribute to scholarship ifat all: publishing pedagogical papers, synthesis or review papers, setting up labs for research andteaching, writing grant applications, developing software, exploring different research areas,performing research that is unsuccessful, and involving undergraduate students in research.4. Time ManagementOne of the most difficult challenges to conducting research at a smaller institution is finding thetime for it. This section presents tips on how to manage the time required for teaching, research,and service.Tip 1: Spend summers doing almost exclusively research.Virtually all of the people we talked to used the summer to concentrate on research. Unlike theacademic year, summer is free
teams to work effectively. Other issues that need to be taught are: how to handlesuccesses and failures and how to use peer evaluations to improve teamwork (Vik, 2001)12.What is teamwork?Teamwork is a technique that allows individual team members to work together to achieve acommon goal (Barkley & Saylor, 2001)1. In their gook entitled: Customer –Driven ProjectManagement, Barkley and Saylor spell out teamwork as specifically involving the followingattributes: Trust Effective communication, especially listening A positive “can do “ attitude Motivation to perform and improve “We” mentality “Ownership” of work with pride Respect and consideration
are difficult for a variety of reasons, including the lackof preparation and experience that new faculty members have for various aspects of the job.Much advice has been given regarding the use of mentoring and workshops to accelerate theacclimatization period, but these methods may not involve the relaxed atmosphere and opendiscussion conducive to the development and free exchange of ideas and ideologies. In thispaper, we discuss our approach of regular peer meetings of such discussions. Peer meetingspromote the discussion of problems encountered by new faculty as the problems develop. Notonly does discussing problems in such meetings assist in the creation of solutions, but everyonewho participates in the discussion is thereafter prepared