Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Technical Session 7: Partnerships Making It Real! II

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janna Jobel, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Adam St. Jean, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

program was grant-funded and provided busing to and from AMSA’s campus fromstudents’ homes for student populations that identified this need, as well as to and from bothinstitutions the second week for all participants. The overall cost of the program broke down to$708 per pupil. The S-STEM survey [14] was used as a pre- and post-intervention measure, aswell as an additional exit survey. The S-STEM survey indicated no statistically significantchanges in interest in or attitudes towards STEM. Program coordinators felt this was probablynot the correct program metric instrument considering the population involved and the brevity ofthe program. The additional exit survey in comparison to the entrance survey saw no differencein students planning to

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Technical Session 2: Let's Get Thinking Computationally

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alaina Katherine Mabie; Monica McGill, CSEdResearch.org; Brenda Huerta, Bradley University

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

+C units. The units included designing and testing a movingobject, creating sculptures with circuitry, and developing an ecosystem video game. Theyassessed the students’ engagement and attitudes towards STEM+C. Paired T-tests revealedsignificant positive increases in girls’ attitudes toward mathematics and science. Significantincreases were also observed in all students’ attitudes toward science. S-STEM results indicatedthat students’ perceptions of their math and science performance increased. Students also gainedan understanding of STEM+C careers with the largest gains in girls’ knowledge of scientists andcomputer scientists. Findings also revealed that students reported very high to high levels ofaffective and overall engagement.Lin