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, appropriate supervision of the project team, optimization of the necessaryallocated inputs, and their application to meeting the program’s objectives. The paperdescribes the effectiveness of the team as we utilized project management tools in managingthis large group of STEM projects over the past three years. Additionally, the paperelaborates on the social management theoretical framework on which the projectmanagement principles are hinged. The impactful outcomes of the STEM program inincreasing academic performance as well as improving key constructs associated with studentsuccess such as motivation, epistemic and perceptual curiosity, engineering identity, and self-efficacy through the team effectiveness metrics and the results of the Strength
' academic self-efficacy,research skills, research confidence, teamwork confidence, education, and engineering careerintentions are also presented in the paper. In addition, this study also illustrates how the student’sglobal experiences, such as cultural awareness, worldwide perspectives, and interest in globalengineering careers, have changed as a result of this project. Lastly, the lessons learned from theCOVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the project implementation and what changes are beingmade for the next cohort are also discussed.Project backgroundThree public universities in the states of Texas, Nevada, and North Dakota are working togetheron the IRES project. North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCAT),University of
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, teachers reinforceautonomy, contribute to increased intrinsic motivation in their students, and positively affectstudent engagement and feelings of competence [17] [18]. Students with self-efficacy who knowthey have successfully solved problems in the past believe in themselves and are more likely tosucceed in future problem-solving opportunities [19]. The integrated STEM curricula developedfor middle school students for the current study aim to support student autonomy andcompetence needs by giving students structured opportunities to make choices and reflect upontheir decisions in an engineering design project [5]. By helping students feel independent andcompetent, we support students' intrinsic motivation. The curriculumdesigners' motivation
translatedto action as part of a written student development plan with next steps, major milestones, andcontinuous feedback.Program AssessmentWe strive to execute an agile, build-test-build paradigm, where we continually evaluate our trainingmethodology and systems for student support. We do this through qualitative and quantitativeassessments of workshops and training. Through surveys we analyze student engagement, researchoutputs, and self-assessment (e.g., imposter syndrome, self-efficacy, confidence, belonging) whichare indicators of the effectiveness of programs of this nature 7,11 . These surveys are administered atthe beginning, middle, and end of the program so that fellows can see their growth real-time.Finally, we track longitudinal student
course. CLC’s Engineering program has alsostruggled with overall retention, especially amongst underrepresented students. Our NationalScience Foundation S-STEM grant addresses some of these issues by incorporating activitiesaimed at increasing self-efficacy and sense of belonging. The opportunity to improveexperiential learning in Engineering Design Graphics using the Baxter Innovation Lab resulted inthe development of new learning outcomes and the project work featured in this paper.In addition, many engineering students lack practical knowledge of how to use basic hand andpower tools, measure for fabrication, and inspect completed parts by comparing with the originaldesign. This often results in students’ virtual designs being impractical to
sections to improve studentpreparation with reasonable expectations of required effort. 15References[1] M. A. Vigeant, D. L. Silverstein, K. D. Dahm, L. P. Ford, J. Cole, and L. J. Landherr, “How We teach: Unit Operations Laboratory,” in ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings, 2018, pp.1-13. https://peer.asee.org/30587.[2] J. Brennan, S. E. Nordell, and E. D. Solomon, “Impact of Course Structure on Learning and Self-Efficacy in a Unit Operations Laboratory,” in ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings, 2017, pp.1-23. https://peer.asee.org/28462[3] E. S. Vasquez, Z. J. West, M. DeWitt, R. J
performance, including motivation, self-efficacy, values,curiosity, and, most importantly, learning environments. Learning is a cognitive phenomenon thatdiffers from person to person. There is no doubt, however, that learning through hands-onexperience is an effective method of retaining information. Undergraduate students in this digitalage have grown up with technology and come from an education system that encourages criticalthinking, hands-on learning, teamwork, design skills, problem solving, and experiential learning[1]. Most students today are visual and interactive learners, and research in educational theory andcognitive psychology shows that this type of learning is one of the most effective methods forteaching students of all ages how to
it's an innate talentthat considers a range of genetic, developmental, psychological, and environmental elements andis based on a variety of neurobiological systems. ([2], [3], [4], [5]). Others, including the author,believe that resilience is merely developmental and that anyone can build it to triumph over life'sups and downs. According to Prince-Embury (2014), there are three basic systems that are essentialfor the growth of resilience: a sense of mastery, a sense of relatedness, and emotional reactivity.Optimism, adaptability, and self-perceived competence or self-efficacy are all components of asense of mastery. A sense of relatedness includes trust in others, access to support, social comfort,and tolerance of differences. Emotional
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questions guided this study to understand the neurodiverse workers'feelings of self-efficacy. Specifically, the post analyzed elicit 1) What problems do neurodiverseusers usually raise about their workplaces or workspaces? 2) What strategies do they use toovercome job challenges?3. MethodologyIn this paper, we use techniques covered in two courses: Human-computer interaction (AIT716)and Information: Representation, Processing, and Visualization (AIT664) at George MasonUniversity.These courses are designed for graduate students in engineering school and the techniques used inthese courses are applied to a wide range of large-scale domains including machine learning [8],[9], social media analysis [[10] and user study [[11], [12]. However, in this
HCperpetuates and normalizes dominant narratives in schooling through the veil of professionalism,standards, and norms that are structurally supported and sustained through individuals, socialgroups, or systems to maintain a status quo. Villanueva et al. [1] created a validated instrument to explore the perceptions of engineeringundergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty about HC, how it is defined, received, andresponded to. As explained in prior work a validated instrument (UPHEME) [1] to measure theHC in engineering was created. With this instrument, four factors were identified: HiddenCurriculum Awareness (HCA) which is a factor by which information being communicated isdiscerned; Self-efficacy (SE) that serves as an igniter towards
self-efficacy orreduce opportunities to make the course more challenging if they had higher personal learninggoals. Researchers speculated that some students may not make the connection between failureand iteration as an effective learning strategy.CollaborationStudents are required to work in groups in both courses and at times considered a “divide andconquer” approach to teamwork, in which each team member undertook a separate task, as themost efficient strategy. Investigators identified a need for a cooperative, integrated teamapproach to learning that would help students make sense of course material together with theirpeers by benefitting from one another’s knowledge and diverse experience.Creative ConfidenceAccording to David and Tom
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discussion class, and attend a couple of advancedscholarships in teaching and learning opportunities. Both sections will be attending a Teachingand Learning Symposium offered internally through the Provost office and faculty developmentcenter. Future analysis will include a deeper exploration of the impact of this certification on thestudents' development. This will include the following: ● Interviews with the students around their teaching philosophy. ● Examination of the new 396 cohort philosophy and 397 newly developed philosophies ● Impact analysis on motivation, attitudes, self-efficacy on the students and their career ● Impact on analysis on confidence and success in their respective courses as teaching fellows through
persistence toward graduating with an engineering degree.Student attitudes and beliefs are known to be important. For example, student beliefs aboutengineering career security and salary are predictors for persistence [3]. Student career aspirationhas also been observed as an indicator of persistence [2]. Other studies have highlighted theimportance of guidance and clarification of the role of engineers through advising, as manystudents may have incorrect assumptions about the culture of engineering [4]. One studyidentified six broad factors that drive attrition from engineering: classroom and academicclimate, grades and conceptual understanding, self-efficacy and self-confidence, high schoolpreparation, interest and career goals, and race and gender
and delivered themin a face-to-face workshop. They stated team formation, team roles, teamwork experience, andassessment and evaluation are areas that should be clearly addressed to enhance the capabilitiesof engineering educators in establishing effective gender-mixed teams.Beigpourian and Ohland [20] conducted a systematized review on the role of gender and race inteamwork in undergraduate engineering classrooms to highlight pertaining factors in the area ofwomen and minorities' teamwork that have been investigated in prior studies. They extracted keyterms related to race and gender in engineering Teamwork including collaboration,communication, leadership and self-efficacy, peer evaluation, perceptions of professors andstudents, team
performance [35]; • working project design and oral presentation [36], post-quiz and post-design [37]; • direct assessment (course design notebook, oral presentations, etc.) or indirect assessment (class feedback forms, process checks) [38, 39]; and • third party evaluation [40].Surveys, standard student evaluation or adapted evaluation tools [41] or anonymous [42] wereconducted to evaluate students’ group dynamics with open-ended questions [43], provide postinterventions [44], determine students gain in learning and self-efficacy [45], etc. Individualinterviews and focus group discussions were conducted to identify successful practices andlessons learned in cross-disciplinary virtual teams [46], as well as to assess the effectiveness
study the effectiveness of online lab experiences with the goal of improvingstudent success and self-efficacy. Online lab sessions must offer active learning experiences,which may include ample opportunities for students to interact with their peers and instructors,and tackle real problems by experiencing trials and errors. This research on the online labs cangreatly contribute to enhancing EE engineering student learning. Further, it will address thecritical component of EE engineering - experiential learning - with a lot of hands-on lab learningexperiences that can lead to a deeper understanding of engineering concepts. Well-designedonline labs can help students maintain enthusiasm for engineering fresh and can also increase theretention rate
IraqiUniversity. Each faculty member had excellent content knowledge of their respective disciplines.After a series of meetings with members of the school administration, we sent out a needsassessment survey via personalized links to the 161 faculty members in the college of engineering.The survey consisted of 11 sections including background and qualifications, current work,individualized approach to teaching, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) self-efficacy and perceived usefulness, professional development history, school climate, and schoolculture. The primary goal of this analysis was to facilitate conversation and inform stakeholdersof the areas of interest to concentrate the efforts of the proposed faculty development workshop.The
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M. S. Topçu, “Improving early childhood pre-service teachers’ computational thinking teaching self-efficacy beliefs in a STEM course,” Res. Sci. Technol. Educ., pp. 1– 27, 2022, doi: 10.1080/02635143.2022.2036117.[4] J. Zhang, B. Meng, L. Zou, Y. Zhu, and G. Hwang, “Progressive flowchart development scaffolding to improve university students’ computational thinking and programming self- efficacy,” Interact. Learn. Environ., pp. 1–18, 2021, doi: 10.1080/10494820.2021.1943687.[5] C. Vieira, M. Penmetcha, A. Magana, and E. Matson, “Computational thinking as a practice of representation: A proposed learning and assessment framework,” J. Comput. Sci. Educ., vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 21–30, 2016, doi: 10.22369/issn.2153-4136/7/1/3.[6
who do not consider mentoring apriority, it should be noted that they were at least interested enough in mentoring or incentivizedsufficiently by the travel grants earmarked for students to have bothered completing thisvoluntary mentoring survey.Mentorship Seminar SeriesTo enable successful mentor-mentee relationships between graduate students and facultymembers, it is important to first understand how to start, build, and maintain one as well asrecognize what factors can contribute to failed mentoring. However, graduate students,especially minority graduate students, often lack this knowledge, significantly impacting theirresearch productivity, academic and research self-efficacy from experiencing unsatisfyingmentoring without the ability to
] reported results from a quasi-experimental study that evaluated embedded ethics modules in a computer science course. Thisintervention included discussion, perspective-taking activities and stakeholder analysis aroundthe ethics of contact tracing in a public health context. These researchers reported an increase instudents’ level of interest and perceived self-efficacy in addressing ethical issues. Our inventionalso seeks to increase interest and perception regarding ethical issues, and using a similar quasi-experimental methodology, we can review the implications of our intervention on students’perceptions of ethical and professional responsibility. Furthermore, Hess et al. [ 27] usedqualitative methods to investigate empathetic perspective
learning and academic identity. CUREs provideauthentic learning experiences, raise the level of expectations for all students, and support thedevelopment of a community of learners – all critical for students who have been historicallyunderrepresented in STEM [11] [12] [13] [14]. These experiences support development of self-efficacy, interest and identity in STEM [12] [15], contribute to improved course outcomes [16],and generally result in higher retention and persistence for participating students [17].Place-Based Learning CommunityThe term “learning community” refers to a purposeful restructuring of curriculum to link two ormore courses from different disciplines to emphasize connections and provide coherence in thecurriculum [18]. They are a
-awareness category involves not only understanding your ownemotions, values, strengths and self-efficacy, but also recognizing personal bias and how torecognize the interconnection of thoughts and feelings and actions across diverse contexts.Competencies in social awareness address empathy and compassion for those from same anddifferent backgrounds and cultures, understanding social norms for constructive behaviors andsupporting the collective well-being. Relationship skills include the ability to establish, navigateand maintain healthy relationships across social and cultural norms; communicating clearly,actively listening and working collaboratively whenever possible. Curriculum from thisorientation honors and connects to lived experiences of
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mentoring has thepotential to create a more diverse and inclusive learning environment that can promote thesuccess of Hispanic engineering students.AcknowledgementsThis work was funded by the Institute for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access in theGrainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois (Grant #GIANT2021-01). We also thankour mentors Victor Cervantes and Ivan Favila for their feedback.References[1] F. Arbelo, K. Martin, and A. Frigerio. Hispanic Students and Online Learning: Factors of Success. In HETS Online Journal, 9(2), May 2019.[2] A. Carpi, D.M. Ronan, H.M. Falconer, and N.H. Lents. Cultivating Minority Scientists: Undergraduate Research Increases Self-Efficacy and Career Ambitions for Underrepresented