Conference Session

Student Success & Development - Focus on Academic Support

Collection

2017 FYEE Conference

Authors

Kristine K. Craven, Tennessee Technological University; Elizabeth L Hutchins, Tennessee Tech University

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Diversity, FYEE Division - Paper Submission

would be responsible forinsights into communication with professors, email attending each class, interacting with the students in and outetiquette, organization through time management, of class, and aid with course presentations and gradingunderstanding the syllabus, exposure to study according to the discretion of the faculty member. Theenvironments, and personal management skills. Campus student mentors are chosen by the faculty member and areengagement activities are also encouraged including typically engineering students but can also be chosen from aattendance at college seminars and university programs poll of interested students in the University. Mentors areand participation in relevant engineering professional

Conference Session

Issues in the First Year - Focus on Classroom Activities

Collection

2017 FYEE Conference

Authors

Shankar Ramakrishnan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

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FYEE Division - Paper Submission

is evidenced byobjectives. Strengths of this teaching method include “learning at my own pace” being an important factor ofgreater overall student satisfaction with in-class student satisfaction with courses that have an online or e-assistance and competency-based assessment. Results also learning component [16]-[21]. One such learning approach issuggest an impact on mid-level and low achieving the mastery-based approach which has been demonstrated tostudents leading to a higher overall class performance. have increased student confidence and examination scoresCriticisms suggest simplification or emphasis on the [22] – [27]. In this approach, students with various

Conference Session

Student Success & Development - Focus on Academic Support

Collection

2017 FYEE Conference

Authors

Donald F. Hayes PE, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Wonjoon Hong, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; MATTHEW L BERNACKI, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Nicholas Voorhees

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Diversity, FYEE Division - Paper Submission

feedback)Hispanic/Latino, 11% Multi, and 0.5% Native Monitoring Course Visits to “My Grades” Table of student gradesAmerican/Pacific Island. The ethnic distribution was similar Performance on completed assignmentfor males and females. Monitoring Learning Uses of a tool to organize a study session ProcessThe two course sections were taught by different instructors, Planning Downloads of Syllabus, schedule, exambut had identical syllabi, schedule, assignments, grading guides