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Two-year College Division: Authors Address Transfer Matters-Part I

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tanya Karam-Zanders, Louisiana State University; Dina Acklin, Louisiana State University; Sarah Cooley Jones, Louisiana State University; Warren N. Waggenspack Jr., Louisiana State University

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implications. Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 28, 331 – 351. Page 26.289.8 APPENDIX A  SECTION 1 In this section, you will be asked to think back to when you were about to transfer to LSU. Specifically, what were your concerns regarding the potential hurdles you were going to face?   1. Did you expect to face any ACADEMIC hurdles?   a. If so, please describe them:  b. How did you plan to overcome the hurdles?  c. Did you actually experience these hurdles in your first year?   d. If so, how did you overcome them

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Two-year College Division: Authors Address Transfer Matters-Part I

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah Cooley Jones, Louisiana State University; Warren N. Waggenspack Jr., Louisiana State University

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jointly with the S-STEP advisory board, and theemphasis has been on providing updates for both programs, the progress of incorporatingcomponents of each project into a comprehensive and coordinated plan, and the academicsupport of the STEP project via supplemental instructions. One of the primary recommendationsto both programs was to collect and analyze the academic outcomes of participants in theprograms.CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE PLANSOverall, the Pathway Scholar Program is rated very highly by current students, and the programis delivering on its promise of supporting the students financially so they can focus more on theireducation, and connecting the students with others in their field to promote networking.Additionally, the Pathway Scholars

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Two-year College Division: Authors Address Transfer Matters-Part II

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kim Goodwin Roberts, North Carolina State University; Tuere Bowles, North Carolina State University; Jerome P. Lavelle, North Carolina State University

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and motivated by NCState’s strategic plan to expand the proportion of transfer students, the College of Engineeringteamed with the College of Education at NC State. We established initiatives aimed directly atNC CC’s and their communities: 1) to disseminate accurate information regarding engineering atNC State and 2) to develop a valuable network of higher education institutions in North Carolina.In addition to promoting the transfer of high quality students into engineering at NC State, ourgoal was to improve their retention and performance. In this paper, we detail the strategies weemployed to achieve these goals, including programming and publications created by the Collegeof Engineering, targeted solely to NC CC students and advisors. We

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Two-year College Division: Authors Address Transfer Matters-Part II

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Armando A. Rodriguez, Arizona State University

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institution types indicated they had the financial resources they needed to finish college. Yet, on the upside, similar percentages of students indicated they were receptive to financial guidance.5Interestingly, 73% of the surveyed students agreed that they needed to study more than they didlast year. The study suggests that sophomores should not be assumed to have “successfullytransitioned” to college: as a cohort and as individuals they have distinctive needs andexperiences.3 In general, students also realized that they needed to seek tutoring and completetheir education programs. However, only 56% of the students in two-year institutions planned totransfer to another institution or were undecided. In particular the sophomores

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Reporting Out: Dissemination of Several NSF Projects of Interest to Two-Year Colleges

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lea K. Marlor, University of California, Berkeley; Sharnnia Artis, University of California, Berkeley; Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech

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Transfer Alliance Project (TAP)which will provide continued support and advice on putting together a competitive transferapplication for the university of their choice. The students are also offered a stipend of $1000 intravel funds in order to present their research project at a national conference. The TTE REUprogram is described in greater detail by Artis2,3.Data Collection MethodsThe evaluation of the TTE program examines the overall success of the REU Site. Formativeevaluation for each cohort of participants is conducted to ensure that the program is progressingas planned. The formative evaluation measures include a survey conducted midway, examinationof weekly research journal entries, and one-on-one progress meetings. The

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Two-year College Division: Authors Address Transfer Matters-Part II

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brooke Charae Coley, University of Virginia; Carolyn A. Vallas, University of Virginia

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,  diplomas  and  certificates  in  201410.    Currently,  more  than  25  public  and  private  schools  have  Guaranteed  Admissions  Agreements  with  the  VCCS  where  approximately  56%  of  graduating  students  are  in  transfer  programs  planning  to  pursue  a  bachelor’s  degree10.    Figure  2  shows  that  more  than  40%  of  Virginia  Community  College  System  students  enrolled  in  the  2010-­‐11  Academic  Year  transferred  to  a  4-­‐year  institution  by  2014.                                   Figure  2.    Percent  o f  students  enrolled  in  2010-­‐11  Academic  Year

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Reporting Out: Dissemination of Several NSF Projects of Interest to Two-Year Colleges

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kristin Kelly Frady, Clemson University; Kapil Chalil Madathil, Clemson University; Anand K. Gramopadhye, Clemson University; Ben Perry Dillard III; Hope Epps Rivers, SC Technical College System

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post-secondaryattainment may have the ability to significantly impact an individual’s earning ability.25 Creation Page 26.319.7of educational pathways enabling students, veterans, adults and incumbent workers to have bothaccess to and a seamless transition between various types of post-secondary educationalattainment is vital to increasing overall educational attainment throughout the region. Pathwaydevelopment may include stackable certificates, creative ways to address credentials, innovativearticulation programs, increasing industry’s role in curriculum development and communicationand strategic planning across educational and workforce

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Focus on the Classroom: Novel Approaches to Course Delivery

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elaine L. Craft, Florence-Darlington Technical College; Donna Kay Chrislip; Rex Allen Parr; Victoria Alexandra Sauber, Arapahoe Community College

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need in their ICTworkforce. Additionally, independent research by industry trade groups such as the InformationTechnology Association of America (ITAA)5 and the Society for Information Management(SIM)6 shows that for American ICT workers to remain competitive, they must offer skill setsbeyond the basic knowledge of a specific IT discipline.BATEC’s IT Workforce Skills Study notes that the industries they surveyed consider technicalskills as important as ever to the technicians they plan to hire. Employers note, however, that thesuccessful candidates will be those workers who possess employability skills, especially critical Page 26.168.3thinking

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Reporting Out: Dissemination of Several NSF Projects of Interest to Two-Year Colleges

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dan G. Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Jerry O'Connor, San Antonio College

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components and made them available for returningstudents as well as the new ones. The robotics project, which had become very popular withstudents, was refined and diversified to include two sequential years of activities and challenges.This enhancement provided increased opportunity for our students to diversify their design andprogramming skills.The paper presents and analyzes the results of the second year of the new edition of the programand describes the long term plans to continue the program with support from other fundingsources.Brief History of the ProgramThe EDGE Program was started in 20031 and initially was intended to continue the work startedin the established San Antonio Pre-freshman Engineering Program (PREP) 2 with a more

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Best Practices for Two-Year Students Majoring in Engineering & STEM Fields

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen M. Groppi P.E., Cabrillo College; Susan Tappero, Cabrillo College

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mindsets. We encourage them to embrace the state of struggle that exists on thespectrum of learning new material rather than taking it as a sign that they should giveup. We cultivate a more profound sense of responsibility in the students for their owneducation. For instance, during the last day of the intensive, students complete and sign aformal-looking document titled, “My Personal Contract for Success in Math 4 andBeyond,” and supply eight things they will do as part of their study plan for the upcomingsemester. Some of the study plans include, “I will ask for help when I need it,” “I will notgive up,” “I will have fun,” I will become a PREP TA after next semester.”For both the Energy Academy and the PREP intensive, each four hour day included

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Two Year College Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Farzin Heidari, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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reference to create a sketch. to create a sketch.  Most of the times, just the  Orientation of the whole model is orientation of an individual part is assumed as the first step and then taken into consideration. individual part orientation is planned.  For mating the parts in an  Datum planes are used in all possible assembly, only the surfaces of the ways to define the mates in the adjacent parts are considered. assembly.  Less time taking comparatively.  Takes more time in planning but easily

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Best Practices for Two-Year Students Majoring in Engineering & STEM Fields

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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April K. Andreas, McLennan Community College; Paulina Z. Sidwell, McLennan Community College

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semester developing AI that played against theuser.McLennan College has partnered with Tarleton State University to allow the research course tofully-transfer into that partner university’s degree plan in Engineering Physics, and manystudents have completed design projects to meet those goals. One student created a “Simon”memory game from scratch while another built ham radio repeaters.Pure curiosity has motivated other students. One student designed a graphing calculator app,which in turn required the student to learn Reverse Polish Notation (RPN). Another student,frustrated with the way in which referees were assigned to his soccer club matches, designed anautomated scheduling algorithm, motivating a discussion of P vs NP. Both RPN and P vs NP

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Two-year College Division: Authors Address Transfer Matters-Part II

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Laura E. LeMire, The Community College of Baltimore County

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area of study. The responsibilities ofthe student and faculty member were clearly communicated each semester at the first workshop.Awardees signed a Mentoring Agreement at the beginning of each semester and submittedmentoring logs at the end of the semester. T4 STEM scholars and mentors committed to meetingat least every other week for the first six weeks of the semester to make sure the student got offto a good start, and on a monthly basis thereafter. Mentors worked with the students to developand manage an Individual Academic Learning Plan (IALP) which helped the student gauge theamount of time and coursework necessary to complete his/her studies by taking the courses inthe proper sequence.To maintain their scholarship, students were

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Two-year College Division: Authors Address Transfer Matters-Part II

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Monica M. Cortez, Texas A&M University; Teri Kristine Reed, Texas A&M University; P.K. Imbrie, Texas A&M University; Sylvia E. McMullen, Blinn College; Jackie Perez, Texas A&M University

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students to transfer from a two-year to a four-year institution. For example, the Arizona State and Maricopa Community College Partnership isa two-year STEM program that encourages students to pursue an engineering curriculumhowever these 2-year students are co- enrolled into the University College and not theengineering college. Therefore they do not receive dedicated support or academic advising fromthe engineering college. Research from the National Center for Education statistics hasdemonstrated that community college transfer students most likely to earn a bachelor’s degreeare those students that are enrolled in their major and actively earning credits toward theirmajor.9 This would include receiving program of study planning from people who

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Best Practices for Two-Year Students Majoring in Engineering & STEM Fields

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dave Galley, Collin College; Gena S Martin, Collin College; Jeannie Christine Stone, Wylie Independent School District; Becky Hunt, Allen Independent School District; Jean Laswell, Rockwall Independent School District; Lynn Mortensen, Retired Raytheon Company; John W. Sibert, The University of Texas at Dallas

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Council (MTBC). After her time at Baylor University, Martin’s education career began in secondary ed- ucation. Since 2007, she has focused on the critical interface between higher education and secondary education. In 2011, she joined Collin College as the Career and Technical Education Coordinator specif- ically working with technical dual credit students. Recently, after working closely with the department, she joined the Engineering and Technology Department of Collin College assisting students on the high school level, on the college level, and in industry who plan to pursue STEM degrees. Further, through her work with industry on the MTBC STEM Advisory Board, she coordinates key industrial connections for the

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Two-year College Division: Authors Address Transfer Matters-Part I

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carl Whitesel, Mesa Community College; Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University

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, R. H., & Corwyn, R. F. (2002). Socioeconomic Status and Child Development. Annual Review of Psychology, 53, 371-399.30 Wells, R. S., & Lynch, C. M. (2012). Delayed College Entry and the Socioeconomic Gap: Examining the Roles of Students Plans, Family Income, Parental Education, and Parental Occupation. The Journal of Higher Education, 83(5), 671-697.31 Inman, W. E., & Mayes, L. (1999). The Importance of Being First: Unique Characteristics of First Generation Community College Students. Community College Review, 26(4), 3-22.32 Horn, L., & Bobbitt, L. (2000). Mapping the Road to College: First Generation Students' Math Track, Planning Strategies, and Context of Support (NCES Publication No. 2000

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Best Practices for Two-Year Students Majoring in Engineering & STEM Fields

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Courtney Hadsell, Cañada College; Tracy Huang, Cañada College; Amelito G Enriquez, Cañada College

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completes the pre-test the MyMathTest program puts together a study plan based on thequestions that they missed. This allows the student to efficiently use their time to brush up onthe concepts that they have forgotten and not spend as much time on concepts that they arecomfortable with. For most students this program is the first time that they are comprehensivelyintroduced to vectors. At Cañada College students would be introduced to vectors at the end oftheir trigonometry course, but unfortunately it is a topic that instructors do not have enough timeto cover well, or at all, so most students see vectors for the first time during the first week oftheir physics course. It is for this reason that group work and activities at the beginning of

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Two Year College Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peter Golding, University of Texas, El Paso; Oscar H. Salcedo, University of Texas, El Paso; Mike Thomas Pitcher, University of Texas, El Paso; Oscar Antonio Perez, University of Texas, El Paso; Mariano Olmos, El Paso Community College; Tonie Badillo, El Paso Community College

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(CREaTE) in College of Engineering atUTEP in collaboration with the Center for Institutional Evaluation Research and Planning(CIERP) at UTEP.The project has enabled articulation agreements to be established between the partners. Degreeplan checklists, flowcharts, prerequisite tables, and transfer guides are in place for each degreeprogram between EPCC and UTEP. See http://engineering.utep.edu/plaza/circles/degree.htmThe Department of Education provided major support for this partnership project. The goals ofthe project were exceeded in all key areas, and the results have been implemented andinstitutionalized. During the next five years we anticipate seeing growth in the transfer back andforward of our students due to the improvements and

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Focus on the Classroom: Novel Approaches to Course Delivery

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gary J. Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

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billion Life Sciences Initiativeenacted by the Massachusetts Legislature in June 2008, put out a request for proposals atapproximately the same time (2013) for initiatives to enhance the life science’s workforce for thestate of Massachusetts. The college’s Grants Office applied for and received a relatively modestplanning grant to develop curricula and plan out capital equipment and facility needs for threeidentified tracks that were related to the biomedical/life sciences industry. The three tracks weretentatively named: Biomedical Instrumentation Technology, Biomedical ManufacturingTechnology, and Biotechnology. The first two tracks would be for new programs that had beentopics of discussion with the Beacon Alliance for the last two years while

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Reporting Out: Dissemination of Several NSF Projects of Interest to Two-Year Colleges

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenan Baltaci, University of Wisconsin, Stout; Ulan Dakeev, University of Michigan, Flint; Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University

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, including the NSF grant principalinvestigator (PI) and co-PI. The aforementioned data shows that 65.6% of students fromtechnology programs took the survey. Even though demographics and baseline data left no doubtthat the communities served are disadvantaged, come from low-income families in WestVirginia, and require financial assistance, more insight is needed to determine a proposed, well-rounded plan to increase retention using the prospective grant.Data CollectionTo obtain objective information for the grant-writing process, fifteen survey questions werecreated. All survey questions were closed-ended, and were either multiple-choice or scaled.Students were surveyed during the same week by the instructors of pre-selected courses in orderto avoid

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Focus on the Classroom: Novel Approaches to Course Delivery

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christopher John Akelian, Cuesta College

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provide effective training  Supply the lab curriculum materials and plans, including parts lists and free software to reproduce the trainingBelow are some pictures of the training equipment, PLC programs, and SCADA displaysdeveloped in the Lab modules.Figure 1 This picture shows some of the equipment developed in-house for alternative energySCADA training. The large roller platform in the center housed an inverter and a weather stationthat was monitored wirelessly. On the side of the roller platform PLC training cards could bemounted for monitoring the inverter voltage and current and passing information to a SCADAsystem. Page

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Two-year College Division: Authors Address Transfer Matters-Part I

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carl Whitesel, Mesa Community College; Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University

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regard toconceptual knowledge of DC circuit analysis and this unique population of community collegestudents. This is a major gap that has been addressed by the present study, which confirms thesame relationship in this population.Bibliography1 Streveler, R., Litzinger, T. A., Miller, R. L., & Steif, P. S. (2008). Learning Conceptual Knowledge in the Engineering Sciences: Overview and Future Research Directions. Journal of Engineering Education, 97(3), 279-294.2 Jones, B. D., Paretti, M. C., Hein, S. F., & Knott, T. W. (2010). An Analysis of Motivation Constructs with First- Year Engineering Students: Relationships Among Expectancies, Values, Achievement, and Career Plans. Journal of