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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Malicky

differences in SME self-efficacy: Women appear to have lower SME self-efficacythan their male peers, by a moderate amount.A number of studies have compared the self-efficacy of men and women in SME fields4, 10, 11, 17-19,24, 27, 32, 33 . Of these, three4, 31, 33 did not find significant gender differences in SME self-efficacy; theother seven did find such differences, favoring men. These 10 studies are described below,starting with the multi-institutional studies.Besterfield-Sacre32 employed a validated instrument to survey 13 attitudes of 1st year engineeringstudents at 17 institutions. Of these 13 attitudes, 5 were measures of self-efficacy. These measuresand the associated results over the first year are: 1. Basic engineering

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2003 Annual Conference

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Janet Schmidt; Greg Wilkins; Clay Gloster; Robert Lent; Linda Schmidt

) completed measures of SCCT’scentral person (e.g., self-efficacy) and contextual (e.g., social support) variables. Findingsindicated that the set of SCCT variables accounted for a large proportion of the variancein academic goals, regardless of student sex or university type. Implications for futureresearch and for practical efforts to attract and retain women and students of color withinengineering are discussed.IntroductionSocial cognitive career theory4 (SCCT) is aimed at explaining the processes throughwhich people develop basic academic and career-related interests, translate their interestsinto choices, and achieve performances of varying quality in their educational andoccupational pursuits. Among its predictions, SCCT maintains that people

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Assessment of Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sarah Rzasa; John Wise; Elizabeth Kisenwether

: Tendencies orattributes possessed by the individual entrepreneur and knowledge or skills consideredimportant to entrepreneurial success. Page 8.238.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationIn order to begin to answer the assessment questions, we developed a list of attributesand knowledge that would be measurable and support the original goals of theprogram. The student outcomes, both cognitive and affective, are listed in Table 1.Attribute/TendencyEntrepreneurship Self-Efficacy

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Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Brad Kinsey

related in a reciprocal manner to motivation. Motivation is often thought of interms of the interest or value a student would feel related to a given subject matter or task.However, motivational models in education and psychology stress the importance of theexpectancy construct. Two key ideas within this construct are self-concept and self-efficacy bothof which relate to self-confidence. Self-concept measures a student's general perception ofconfidence or ability regarding learning in a particular field, in this case engineering, whereasself-efficacy measures a student's perception of competence for handling specific tasks, herevisualization tasks. Students who feel self-confident about learning or performing well atspecific tasks will seek new

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland

products not built,in design not considered, in constraints not understood, in processes not invented.7 The word“engineering” is not normally associated with “creativity.”7 There is a lack of diversity inengineering (few women and underrepresented minorities) due to a wrong opinion of whatengineering really is. 7 A second major theme in the review of literature on the reasons for the lack of women inengineering is that women’s self-efficacy for pursuing science and engineering careers tends tobe low as a result of lack of information to build self-efficacy.6 Self-efficacy is one’s beliefabout how well she or he can perform a given task or behavior.8 Self-efficacy is built throughfour sources of information: past performance accomplishments (in

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rose Marra

developing quantitative instruments.Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education. • In-depth literature review of WIE literature with a focus on identifying prior assessment activities. • In-depth literature review of related fields including psychology and education in order to identify related assessment instruments and measurement areas (e.g. self-efficacy) that can inform the development of our WIE instruments. • Documentation (and eventual publication) of the above literature reviews in a form designed to inform WIE directors on the theoretical and educational constructs that

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Assessing Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Doran; Leo Denton; Dawn McKinney

. This paper provides a detailed description of our implementationprocess. Our experience has indicated that affective objectives can be used to foster academicexcellence. Factors supporting this excellence include perceived competence (or self-efficacy),student effort, and student interest/enjoyment. Results also suggest that this approach had abeneficial effect upon achievement in women and minority groups. The assessment effortincluded the analysis of data drawn from validated instruments that measured various factorscorrelated with course grades and comparative course-completion rates.Prior WorkA Bloom-based cognitive curriculum was defined for the introductory programming sequence in1994.12 This framework was based upon the six levels of

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Assessment in EM Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Neal Jackson; Susan Magun-Jackson

essential support. Inaddition, several studies have found that optimistic people live longer. 6Research in positive organizational behavior (POB) follows the recent interest in positivepsychology. While the psychologists are focusing on strengths and psychological capabilities,management scholars are seeking specific criteria with valid measures that can contribute toleadership and human resources training, and ultimately to performance improvement. Self-efficacy, optimism, emotional intelligence, and well being/happiness are some of the areas thathave been identified for analysis in this proposed POB approach.5 The challenge to POBresearchers is to generate more interest that will lead to more productive research, new theories,and applications

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Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Dantzler; Kevin Whitaker; Jim Richardson

self-efficacy expectations4,5. A keyin reducing the marginalization of minority students and women on college campuses seems toreside in the active examination of racism and sexism by all students. Many studies haveexamined the effect of liberal arts education alone on students’ attitudes with regard to diversity.Liberal arts education has been associated with a greater regard for civil rights and increasedacceptance of issues related to racial tolerance6,7,8,9,10. Similarly, students who progress throughundergraduate education in general have been shown to adopt less conservative and traditionalsocial views, and gain more liberal ones11,12

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Assessing Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

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S. Michael Kilbey; Richard Rice; Scott Husson; Graham Harrison; Douglas Hirt; David Bruce; Charles Gooding; Debi Switzer

Learning goal orientation 0.74 0.00* Self Efficacy for Learning 0.46 0.01 Control of Learning 0.39 0.02 Metacognitive Self-regulation 0.43 0.01 Intellect 0.73 0.00* Elaboration 0.48 0.00* Critical Thinking 0.50 0.00* Task Value 0.61 0.00* Attitude toward chemical

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Developing Young MINDs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Rosa Cano; Howard Kimmel

engineering/scientific pipeline. Girls shouldreceive science and mathematics enrichment and personal motivation prior to ninth grade,and such intervention should start at the point when they are still not influenced by“expectations,” academic courses are mandated by school curricula and not minimumrequirements, and their sense of self-efficacy is positive.Since academic instruction in the fourth grade moves from concrete to abstract concepts, in1993, with seed funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Femme programwas expanded to encompass post-fourth and fifth grade girls. The second FEMME groupwas born! The Introduction to FEMME (IFEMME) was designed to offer 48 fourth and fifthgrade high-ability girls an opportunity to improve their

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Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hy Tran; Catherine Clewett

Measurement in Education, New Orleans, LA.14 Fraser, B. J. (1978). Development of a test of science-related attitudes. Science Education, 62 (4): 509-515.15 Joyce, Beverly A.; Farenga, Stephen J. (1999) Informal Science Experience, Attitudes, Future Interest in Science, and Gender of High-Ability Students: An Exploratory Study. School Science and Mathematics v99 n8 p431-37 Dec 199916 Smist. J. M., Owen, S. V. (1994, April) Explaining Science Self-Efficacy. Paper presented at the meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, New Orleans, LA.17 Khalili, Khalil Y. (1987) A Crosscultural Validation of a Test of Science Related Attitudes. Journal of Research in Science Teaching v24 n2 p127-3618 Schibeci, R. A. (1982

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Developing Young MINDs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Doreen Lawrence; Broderick Boxley; Chris Kobus; Barbara Oakley

://www.msnbc.com/news/645566.asp?cp1=1. Page 8.1262.1215. Bandura A. "Self-efficacy: the Exercise of Control," New York: W. H. Freeman, 1997.16. Ausubel DP. "The Psychology of Meaningful Verbal Learning." New York: Grune & Stratton, 1963. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Session 117017. Chatterji M, Kwon Y. "A Summative Evaluation Report of the Kumon Supplemental Instructional Program at P.S. 180," New

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Learning and Teaching Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Ellis; Alan Rudnitsky; Borjana Mikic

wererelated to each other. After completing this exercise, the class was introduced to the courseconcept map as the instructor essentially constructed the map by using each of the variables thatthey listed. This may well have resulted in increased self-efficacy since students saw that theirideas were, in fact, the basis for the course. Page 8.596.5 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationThroughout EGR 270 the course concept map was revisited regularly as each new topic wasintroduced. The purpose of