Paper ID #29409Kindergartners’ Engagement in an Epistemic Practice of Engineering:Persisting and Learning from Failure (Fundamental)Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue Ph.D., Towson University Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue, Ph.D., is Professor of Science and Engineering Education in the Department of Physics, Astronomy and Geosciences at Towson University. She has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, worked briefly as a process engineer, and taught high school physics and pre-engineering. She has taught engineering and science to children in multiple formal and informal settings. As a K- 8 pre-service teacher educator, she
the sciences.Dr. Jean S Larson, Arizona State University Jean Larson, Ph.D., is the Educational Director for the NSF-funded Engineering Research Center for Bio- mediated and Bio-inspired Geotechnics (CBBG), and Assistant Research Professor in both the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment and the Division of Educational Leadership and Innovation at Arizona State University. She has a Ph.D. in Educational Technology, postgraduate training in Computer Systems Engineering, and many years of experience teaching and developing curriculum in various learning environments. She has taught technology integration and teacher training to undergrad- uate and graduate students at Arizona State University
Paper ID #29180Development and Teacher Perceptions of an Avatar-Based Performance Taskfor Elementary Teachers to Practice Post-Testing ArgumentationDiscussions in Engineering Design (RTP)Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue Ph.D., Towson University Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue, Ph.D., is Professor of Science and Engineering Education in the Department of Physics, Astronomy and Geosciences at Towson University. She has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, worked briefly as a process engineer, and taught high school physics and pre-engineering. She has taught engineering and science to children in multiple formal and informal settings
Nanophotonics Lab. Her current research is focused on optoelectronics, fabrication and characterization of pH-dependent liquid crystal platforms with potential applications in nano-imaging systems. She was a Fellow of Drexel’s CASTLE (Center for Advancement of STEM Teaching and Learning Excellence) and developed hands- on activities to teach advance engineering topics to high school students.Jessica S Ward, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.) Jessica S. Ward serves as the Director of Development for the Center for the Advancement of STEM Teaching and Learning Excellence (CASTLE). During her tenure at Drexel University, Ms. Ward has successfully coordinated with multiple faculty members in the submission of
-resourced schools. In 2016 she was a recipient of the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). https://engineering.tufts.edu/me/people/faculty/kristen- bethke-wendellDr. Chelsea Andrews, Tufts University Chelsea Andrews is a post-doctoral researcher at Tufts University and University of Massachusetts-Boston in engineering education. She received a B.S. from Texas A&M University in ocean engineering, an S.M. from MIT in civil and environmental engineering, and a PhD from Tufts University in Engineering Edu- cation. Her current research includes investigating children’s engagement in engineering design through in-depth case study analysis.Dr. Tejaswini S Dalvi, University of
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Adjunct Associate Professor of Education at Tufts University. Her research efforts at at the Center for Engineering Education and Out- reach focus on supporting discourse and design practices during K-12, teacher education, and college- level engineering learning experiences, and increasing access to engineering in the elementary school ex- perience, especially in under-resourced schools. In 2016 she was a recipient of the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). https://engineering.tufts.edu/me/people/faculty/kristen- bethke-wendellDr. Tejaswini S Dalvi, Univeristy of Massachusetts, Boston c American Society for
Paper ID #31376Using Computer-Generated Concept Maps in the Engineering Design Pro-cessto Improve Physics LearningMr. Michael S Rugh, Texas A&M University Michael S Rugh is a third year PhD student focusing on mathematics education within the Curriculum and Instruction PhD track in the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Culture within the College of Education and Human Development at Texas A&M University. His current focus is on informal STEM education. Within this, he has taught for the past two years at ASSC, the Aggie STEM Summer Camp. He has over 16 presentations and publications and is constantly working on
National Leadership Advisory Board of the StriveTogether Network during its affiliation with the KnowledgeWorks Foundation (Cincinnati). He is currently a Senior Fel- low of the American Leadership Forum (Houston/Gulf Coast Chapter) and is serving on the Executive Committee of its Board of Trustees.Dr. Jean S Larson, Arizona State University Jean Larson, Ph.D., is the Educational Director for the NSF-funded Engineering Research Center for Bio- mediated and Bio-inspired Geotechnics (CBBG), and Assistant Research Professor in both the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment and the Division of Educational Leadership and Innovation at Arizona State University. She has a Ph.D. in Educational Technology
the Tufts’ Center for Engineering Education and Outreach.Dr. Stacy S Klein-Gardner, Vanderbilt University Dr. Stacy Klein-Gardner serves as an Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt Univer- sity. She is the external evaluator for the Engineering For Us All (E4USA) project. She chairs the ASEE P12 Committee and is a Fellow of the society. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Initial Investigation of Effective Teacher Professional Development among Experienced and Non-Experienced Engineering Teachers (Work in Progress)Jennifer Kouo, Medha Dalal, Bruk Berhane, Olushola Emiola, Kemi Ladeji-Osias, Ken Reid, Cheryl
months, we collected data using aseries of survey tools including two Upper Elementary School and Middle/High School StudentAttitudes toward STEM (S-STEM) Surveys (Technology and Engineering and 21st CenturySkills) [8] and the Alternative Uses Test (AUT) [9][10]. Additionally, we conducted interviewswith representative youth about their perceptions and attitudes towards the surveys.While the AUT results showed a positive change in the youth, initial results from pre-postSTEM-S evaluations showed insignificant and sometimes negative shifts in youth's intereststowards Technology and Engineering, and 21st Century Skills. Interviews showed that youthstruggled to accurately assess changes in themselves due to the time lapse between pre-postprogram
activities. The DET survey is a five-point Likert-scale that consists of 40 items.The instrument focused on measuring the participants’ perceptions and familiarity with the DETconcepts. A S-STEM survey was also administrated to the teachers’ students at the beginning andthe end of the school year. The S_STEM survey is a five-point Likert-scale with 37 items. TheS_STEM survey captured the students’ attitudes towards the STEM fields and the 21st-centuryskills. In the paper we will describe the research conducted and discuss the implications forcultivating STEM literacy and integrated STEM education. Both pre- and post-comparison resultsand correlation results are presented.IntroductionSTEM fields play a crucial role in generating technological
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teachershaving meaningful engineering experiences with their development of epistemic empathy thatadds to the conversation about productive learning experiences in K-12 teacher preparation inengineering.AcknowledgementsWe thank the research team members and participants who made this study possible. Thismaterial is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.1720334. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this materialare those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.REFERENCES[1] L. S. Nadelson, J. Pfiester, and J. Callahan, “Who Is Doing the Engineering, the Student or the Teacher? The Development and Use of a Rubric to
counter electrode is made by spaying Pt catalyst using atomizer on the FTO glass.Finally, both electrodes are sandwiched and sealed with 60 μm plastic (Surlyn, Dupont), followedby the injection of electrolyte through the reserved channel. Figure 2 shows the assembly of theDSSC components. Figure 2. Schematic of DSSC device assembly.The following steps convert in a DSSC photons (light) to current. The incident photon is absorbedby Ru complex photosensitizers adsorbed on the TiO2 surface. The photosensitizers are excitedfrom the ground state (S) to the excited state (S∗). The excited electrons are injected into theconduction band of the TiO2 electrode. This results in the oxidation of the photosensitizer (S
‘selection’ (shown in yellow)or ‘non-selection’ (shown in pink) of renewable energy were described in a box. Figure 7. Group 1’s (girls) decision-making Figure 8. Group 2’s (girls) decision-making process in the first discussion
(the website will be included in thefinal paper. This website also contains details information about the project and theimplementation methodology).Data were collected to answer the following research questions:(a) To what extent does the pedagogical approach impact the attitudes of students towardsSTEM?(b) To what extent does the pedagogical approach improve the content knowledge of thestudents?(c) To what extent are teachers accepting and comfortable with the pedagogical approach?The Science/Math Teachers Efficacy Belief Instrument (S/MTEBI) [24] was used to measure theattitudes of the participant teachers. This 25-item instrument measures the Teacher EfficacyBelief (13 items) and Teaching Outcome Expectancy (12 items) dimensions on a 5
and with organizations such as 4H programs that couldprovide important local support for students. In the final phase of our study, we plan to share thisinformation through participatory design workshops with key groups of community memberswho work with rural students.AcknowledgementsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under GrantNumber 1734834. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation.References[1] State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV), “The Virginia plan for higher education: Annual report for 2016 to the General Assembly of
policy,higher education, and local standards while integrating disciplinary and industry goals fordesigners and engineers into a epistemic frame encompassing skills (s), knowledge (k), identity(i), values (v), and epistemology (e) [8-10] derived from policy documents and literature. Thesources used in the development and relationship between sub-codes and sources can be seen inFigure 1. In the first version of the EEFK12, these five SKIVE elements had 47 sub-codes thatallowed for a micro-analysis of interactions throughout the engineering design process. A pilotstudy was conducted with rising juniors during a college preparatory summer program to test theevidence of EEFK12 elements in the ideation, prototyping, testing, and final
, Purdue University at West Lafayette Robin S. Adams is a Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University, USA. She holds a PhD in Education, an MS in Materials Science and Engineering, and a BS in Mechanical En- gineering. Her research is in three interconnecting areas: cross-disciplinary thinking, acting, and being; design cognition and learning; and translating educational research to practice. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 A Situative Understanding of the NGSS Science and Engineering Practices (Fundamental)Introduction The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) for pre-college science education callsfor 3
, samples for anengineering math scavenger hunt, andtips for creating scavenger hunts for avariety of STEM fields. Contact Informaiton:Grade Level Recommendations: ►s-coffman-wolph@onu.edu ►kimberlyn.gray@mail.wvu.eduMiddle or High School, College Freshman Google Drive with Materials:Need Materials: https://tinyurl.com/r6gw5rtMaterials: (1) colored printer ink or
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project-based learning, the authors note that the K-12 programsoften fail to deliver comprehensive skills training and practical experiences, which supports ourhypothesis that teaching often focuses on technical expertise. Most courses integrate the teachingof programming with software engineering practices and found that students performed well ingaining conceptual understanding. They made note of an issue that most publications lackedinformation about the objectives, instructional strategy, and methodology for designing thecourse material. The systematic literature review we present here moves beyond the specificcourse design covered by da Cruz Pinheiro et al.’s research and focuses on the intersection ofdigital and engineering skills.Heintz
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activities as well asquotes from the student journals. This means the parent or guardian has some involvement in thecamp despite not attending in person.ReferencesBoesdorfer, S. & Staude, K. (2016). Teachers’ Practices in High School Chemistry Just Prior to the Adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards. School Science and Mathematics, 116, 442–458. doi:10.1111/ssm.12199Burke, A. (2019, September). U.S. S&E Workforce: Definition, Size, and Growth. Retrieved https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsb20198/u-s-s-e-workforce-definition-size-and-growthDeiglmayr, A., Stern, E. & Schubert R (2019) Beliefs in “Brilliance” and Belonging Uncertainty in Male and Female STEM Students. Frontiers In Psychology. 10:1114. Doi
also by generating some turnover among the participants.In the long run the successful implementation of the cooperation will result in increasinginterest of local pupils to study engineering at LUT University. However, it will take a longtime before the full potential of the cooperation is in use, and therefore these other indicatorsof the effectiveness of the activities must be systematically developed and applied.References[1] H. Kirschenbaum & C. Reagan, “University and urban school partnerships. An analysis of57 collaborations between university and a city school district,” Urban Educ. vol. 36, no. 4,pp. 479–504, Sep. 2001, doi:10.1177/0042085901364003[2] S. Sjøberg & C. Schreiner, “The ROSE project. An overview and key findings
Professor (Lecturing) in the Chemical Engineering Department of the University of Utah. He received his B. S. and Ph. D. from the University of Utah and a M. S. from the University of California, San Diego. His teaching responsibilities include the senior unit operations laboratory and freshman design laboratory. His research interests focus on undergraduate education, targeted drug delivery, photobioreactor design, and instrumentation.Prof. Jason Wiese, Jason Wiese is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing at the University of Utah. His research takes a user-centric perspective of personal data, focusing on how that data is collected, interpreted, and used in applications. His work crosses the domains of
inengineering. Cronbach alpha, the statistic used to describe the internal consistency of the VNOEK, was 0.82. In addition, we examined what the alpha value would be if any features or sub-features wereTable 3. Frequencies of participant roles (n=148) removed from the scoring procedures and no change in internal consistency was observed aboveSelect the role(s) that best 0.84. This supports the claim that each feature and sub-feature