Conference Session

Innovative Courses/Pedagogies in Liberal Education I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kyle Simmons, University of Utah; Susan Sample, University of Utah; April Kedrowicz, University of Utah

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Liberal Education

we consider the SPIRAL curriculum that hasbeen implemented. ME 1000 is the first of a four-semester sequence where students will beworking in groups and applying teamwork skills to their engineering, oral communication, andwriting assignments. The fact that students interpreted the instruction as meaningfully relevantand also noticed an improvement in proficiency lends itself nicely to the next step in the SPIRALsequence. We are hopeful that students’ perceptions of writing and speaking instruction willimprove in future semesters, due to their appreciation for effective teamwork to both engineeringand communication practices.Peer EvaluationsA review of students’ peer evaluation memos provides additional insight into their experienceswith

Conference Session

Student Division Technical Session 6: Belonging

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel Louis Kajfez, The Ohio State University; Julie P Martin, University of Georgia

Tagged Divisions

Student Division (STDT)

direction, but provided a mechanism for each of us todiscuss, vent, and work on solutions collaboratively.Rachel: Similarly, I had co-writing meetings in my early years with peer faculty from outside myunit. These were truly accountability sessions where we could each make progress on ourindividual and collective projects (when applicable). While the focus was writing, these types ofsessions also provided opportunities to discuss institutional challenges and understand how otherorganizations approached the issues.Rachel: While I received strong disciplinary peer support, I was in a new department and did nothave near peer faculty within my own unit (i.e., there were no recently tenured faculty). Thus, itwas immensely valuable that I engaged with

Conference Session

Documenting Success

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Mickelson

university grant that funds much of our learning community initiative.Notably, our assessment program is approved through our university human subjectscommittee. Following the discussion of our assessment methods, we will present thefindings from our research regarding the student participants.Assessment MethodsBoth quantitative and qualitative assessment methods have been used for data collection.Specifically, we have gathered information through student records (retention, gradepoint, academic progress), student and peer mentor surveys, student and peer mentorfocus groups, and student writing samples.‡ First-year composition courses are frequently taught by graduate students or by adjunct staff, which has

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 8: Professional Development for Graduate Students

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca Marie Reck, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Yanfen Li, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Shanna Rose Thompson, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Nicole Danielle Jackson, Sandia National Laboratories; Shweta Dabetwar

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies Division (GSD)

. Inrecent years, programs such as Michigan’s NextProf workshop and CU Boulder’s ACTIVEFaculty Development and Leadership Intensive, have emerged that bring together Ph.D. studentsand postdocs to network with peers as well as meet and learn from faculty at host institutionsregarding the job search. Any review of faculty application materials happens briefly duringthese events, which does not allow scaffolding for the participants or application materialrevision opportunities. Other programs focus their preparation on certain types of institutions(e.g., Stanford’s Preparing Future Professors and predominantly undergraduate institutions),disciplines (e.g., Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering and the University of Chicago’s FutureFaculty Conference

Collection

2022 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference

Authors

M. Austin Creasy, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI)

product of a team effort. A grading scheme has been developed, over several yearsof capstone courses, that assists in grading the individual student relative to the team’ssuccess on the project and the individual team member’s contributions as assessed bythe team. This process uses a variety of survey questions related to the project whereeach team member rates themselves and their peers over a 10-point scale. Stipulationsare placed on the rating to ensure that students provide a range in the assessment forthe group members. The survey scores are normalized using the z-score in an attemptto remove individual grading variances between each team member. Each student’sindividual grade is calculated from the team average grade, as assessed by

Conference Session

Communication and Professional Skills in BME

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Tranquillo; Daniel Cavanagh, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

“writer” for every assignment. It should benoted that groups naturally lend themselves to peer assessment of writing as a mechanismfor revision. A slight twist on group assignments was used in BMEG 401 to highlight thechallenges of group communication. The entire class (13 students) was challenged tocreate a single graphic and present it in class, to the instructor, 48 hours later. The resultsof this exercise were used to motivate a discussion of large group dynamics andmanagement.The Importance of AudienceFor all assignments it is important that students consider their audience. Most of theirlives, students have been satisfying an instructor who will use their communications toassign a grade. It is the perpetuation of this format that leads to

Collection

2018 ASEE Conferences - Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration / San Antonio proceedings

Authors

Frederick Berry; Anne Lucietto; Andrew Scott

in 2003 through the development of an instrument focused on peer and self-assessmentcalled the Comprehensive Assessment of Team Member Effectiveness. The system enhancesteam development by creating accountability and feedback for team members, suggesting thatteam members and instructors have a positive team learning experience.Capstone Courses – Multi Institutional Collaboration. The previous work by the multi-institutional collaboration identifies the current work done in many capstone courses includingthose factors that are measureable1. Those measurable factors3 are included in CATME, thus theauthors have chosen to use note taking 4, filing 5, goal setting6,7, and other reflective open ended Proceedings of the 2018

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Horstman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Danielle Jamie Mai, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Yanfen Li, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; Rohit Bhargava, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

groups found them to be the most valuable aspects of the program.Pace. iFEAT was designed to be a multi-month program to allow time for writing of applicationmaterials, specifically cover letters, teaching statements, and research statements. Seminars orpanels were held approximately every three weeks, with peer-review groups convening betweenthe scheduled events. Programming began in late October, and the three aforementioneddocuments were to be drafted by mid-January, allowing approximately 2.5 months for draftingthese documents. The program structure dictated when certain application materials should bedone, although there was no particular reason that the seminars were to be done in the chosenorder. Applicants were asked to rank the pace

Conference Session

Meeting ABET Requirements

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig Gunn, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company,Inc., 1985.Davis, B.G., Tools for Teaching, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993.Elliot, N. et al. "The Assessment of Technical Writing: A Case Study," Journal of Technical Writing andCommunication, Vol.24, No.1, Winter 1994, p.9.Foster, D. A Primer for Writing Teachers. Upper Monclair,New Jersey: Boynton/Cook, 1983.Houp, K.W., and T.E.Pearsall. Reporting Technical Information. New York: Macmillan, 1988.Lefferts, R. How to Prepare Charts and Graphs For Effective Reports. New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 1981.Miller, R. L. and B. Olds, "A Model Curriculum for A Capstone Course in Multidisciplinary Engineering Design,"Journal of Engineering Education, Vol.83,No.4 October 1993, pp. 311-323.Peer commentary on

Conference Session

Graduate Student Support

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hoda Ehsan, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Matilde Luz Sanchez-Pena, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Hossein EbrahimNejad, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Hassan Ali Al Yagoub, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

difficulties are not inclusive to them and may be shared by native speakers ofsimilar academic backgrounds. One of us mentioned how he restricted his communications withhis peers and faculty due to his internal belief of the existence of a linguistic barrier.Language Language was the second inquiry subject that we examined. We agreed that language hasmainly influenced us in three ways: (1) Interpersonal Communications, (2) Reading and (3)Writing. While reflecting on our experiences, we identified challenges that were common to allof us. Here we share these challenges and describe different ways we have overcome them.Besides, we provide suggestions to support others experiencing these challenges based on howwe wished these challenges were

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karin Jensen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Paul Jensen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical Engineering

," ed, 2017.[2] L. A. Riley, P. Furth, and J. Zelmer, "Assessing our engineering alumni: Determinants of success in the workplace," in 2000 ASEE/Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference, 2000.[3] ABET, "Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, 2019-2020," ed, 2019.[4] K. Cho and C. D. Schunn, "Scaffolded writing and rewriting in the discipline: A web- based reciprocal peer review system," Computers & Education, vol. 48, pp. 409-426, 4// 2007.[5] N. Artemeva, S. Logie, and J. St‐Martin, "From page to stage: How theories of genre and situated learning help introduce engineering students to discipline‐specific communication," Technical Communication Quarterly, vol. 8, pp. 301-316, 1999/06

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division: Retention

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maryam Darbeheshti, University of Colorado, Denver; Dakota Ryan Edmonds, University of Colorado, Denver

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

,students covered topics such as purposeful writing, revision and writing process, argument andanalysis, critical reading, research and technology, and multimodality. The course also utilizedthe book Writing in Engineering: A Brief Guide by Robert Irish for student reference. This bookgives guidelines for writing in engineering and was chosen because it was easy for students tounderstand and apply concepts from it. The assignments in the course were broken up into stepsfor the students which included a rough draft process with peer revisions. The ENGL 1020course also allowed students to get support for the research paper they wrote in the ENGR 1208course. Students peer reviewed their research papers in the ENGL 1020 course with the guidanceof the

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thalia Anagnos, San Jose State University; Alicia L. Lyman-Holt, Oregon State University; Sean P. Brophy, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

memo and Gantt chart, a graduate school statement of purpose, a draft poster, anda draft final report. The assignments serve two purposes: developing skills such as how to createa poster or write a literature review, and keeping the projects on schedule so that all students arefully prepared to present at the Young Researchers Symposium. Page 25.1493.6After deliverables are posted, students are required to review and comment on the work of atleast two of their peers that are not based at their research site. The CMS provides a threadeddiscussion linked to each deliverable. All students can browse each other’s work and leavequestions and

Conference Session

Supporting the Capstone Experience

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Nathan Miner, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Aliye Karabulut Ilgu, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Jennifer S. Shane, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Katherine Madson, Iowa State University of Science and Technology

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

the semester. After each team-based project was completed, thestudents were also asked to evaluate themselves and their team member’s teamwork skills.Preliminary analysis of the data showed that students had relatively high pre-semester teamworkconfidence. Students rated themselves lower than their peers on the first evaluation, however,peer evaluation ratings decreased throughout the semester while self-evaluation ratings remainedrelatively constant.IntroductionTraditional classrooms are often structured in a way in which students take notes and listen tolectures during class time and are assigned individual homework assignments to be completedoutside of class. This style allows students to passively take in information, though

Conference Session

Teamwork and Assessment

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heather Sheardown; Donald Woods

Chemical Engineering Division: Assessment of Teams, 3513 paper 832 An Approach to developing Student=s skill in Self Assessment Donald R. Woods and Heather D. Sheardown Department of Chemical Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton ON L8S 4L7Abstract: Self and peer assessment can be vital parts to any team assessment. Theassessment can be of the overall team or of the performance of team members.Assessment is a judgment as to the degree to which a goal has been achieved. Instudent self assessment, the judgment is made by the student. In this paper the fiveprinciples of assessment are summarized. Assessment is about performance notworth; is based on evidence not intuition

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

Multidisciplinary Engineering Design” (Journal ofEngineering Education) report that at Harvey Mudd College, engineers enrolled in design classes must, aspart of their design experience “interact with their clients in a professional manner and communicate with avariety of audiences (peers, faculty members, clients, etc.) orally and in writing. ” It is, therefore, vitallyimportant that engineering students realize the place of communication in their lives. This realization appearsto be awakening in students because a survey conducted at The Colorado School of Mines (Miller, Olds 1993) shows that 95.3’XO of students in multidisciplinary Senior Courses felt that “Good communication skillsare an essential attribute of a professional design engineer. ” In

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Guilford

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 6.81.1 Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationWe present an outline for a course in Cell and Molecular Biology for Engineers in which humanpathologies are used as a clinical, problem-based context for teaching basic biologicalmechanisms. To further emphasize the interface between engineering and the biomedical sciences,students write “review articles” covering the application of engineering to a particular problem incell biology and engage in the process of peer review. A representative curriculum is providedwhich

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joanna Wolfe, Carnegie Mellon University; Jaime Allen Fawcett, Carnegie Mellon University; Elizabeth A. Powell, Tennessee Technological University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

Paper ID #12741Help Seeking Among Undergraduate Men and Women in EngineeringDr. Joanna Wolfe, Carnegie Mellon UniversityJaime Allen Fawcett, Carnegie Mellon University Jaime Allen Fawcett recently completed her undergraduate studies at Carnegie Mellon University in De- cember 2014 where she received a degree in Professional Writing and an additional degree in Creative Writing. Her research interests include pedagogical practices, educational policy and cultural attitudes that influence learning and development for students with specific learning disabilities.Dr. Beth A Powell, Tennessee Technological University

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrienne Decker, University at Buffalo; Briana Morrison, University of Nebraska Omaha; Lauren Elizabeth Margulieux, Georgia State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

subgoal label tasks that isrepresentative of the topics that are commonly taught in introductory courses. Throughexperience in teaching introductory programming along with reviewing several best-sellingtextbooks, we determined this list to be:  Assignment  Selection  Repetition (both definite and indefinite)  Procedure / method writing and invocation (parameter passing)  Object usage and class implementation (for object-oriented courses)  Array processingNext, we used the Task Analysis by Problem Solving (TAPS) protocol developed byCatrambone to identify the subgoals of the procedures [12]. Figure 1 lists the subgoal labels thatwere developed. Following identification, worked examples and practice

Conference Session

International Graduate Students

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Jessop

guidelines to assist them in resolving issues they may encounter.An integral part of these exercises is the feedback the students receive, which dictates how theywill proceed on subsequent assignments. All feedback is delivered in a constructive manner,emphasizing the strengths of their work as well as recommending areas for improvement. Inaddition to the instructor, a panel of two to three faculty members (including the student’sadvisor) reviews the literature reviews and proposals. The class and a second faculty panelcritique the oral presentations. Peer review of writing in progress is also used to help thestudents prepare their manuscripts before submission. Finally, the presentation videotape andwriting portfolio draw the students themselves

Conference Session

Technology, Communications & Ethics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Long

system of distributed cognition.Small groups provide an optimal environment for peers, near peer mentors, and communicationsfaculty to interact through various modes of communicating. Speaking, writing, drawing,gesture, computer programs, etc. mediate individuals’ construction of knowledge. At the sametime, these media represent knowledge externally for others, who can both provide feedback anduse it in their own knowledge constructions. The process of constructing knowledge is enhancedby expert guidance and feedback as the learners work on increasingly challenging aspects of theresearch projects they are involved in with their research advisors. What learners can do initiallywith guidance from a more knowledgeable member of the discipline they

Conference Session

Data Analytics in Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew A. Verleger, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

focus on how the data was obtained and prepared, how the different algorithmswere utilized, how the algorithms performed in the classification tests, what the results indicateabout our implementation of MEAs and how the results will be informing the next stages of theresearch project.Introduction    Peer  review  is  a  cornerstone  of  the  modern  scientific  process.    It  is  meant  to  act  as  a  gateway,  allowing  good  research  through,  while  filtering  out  junk  science;  to  separate  the  wheat  from  the  proverbial  chaff.    Yet  many  scientists,  academics,  and  even  the  US  Supreme  Court  agree  that  peer  review,  while  essential  to  the  scientific  process,  is  far  from  a  perfect  system1.  The  problem

Conference Session

Experiential Learning in BME

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca Willits, Saint Louis University; David Barnett, Saint Louis University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

club (or how to find and read a research article), discussions on laboratory etiquette andresearch ethics. Participants were then integrated into their research mentors laboratory, andspent eight weeks on a research project. The program has two Peer Mentors, who areundergraduates with research experience, that live with the students and participate in theresearch project. The mentors are also responsible for additional social and academic activitiesduring nights and weekends. This paper describes the program, evaluations and critiques fromthe first year (from both research mentors and participants), as well as the challenges andopportunities the program presents to future “Research Experience for Undergraduates”programs. Surveys will continue

Conference Session

Creative and Cross-disciplinary Methods Part I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

in the factthat engineers were never intended to be creative or in any way able to write anything thatbordered on the creative arts. Over these past years, the College of Engineering at MichiganState University has endeavored to open up the flood gates and let the creative juices flow. Tenyears have passed and many of the naysayers have slipped away into the shadows, mumblingabout their distrust of “soft skills” but unable to completely disregard the quality and quantity ofthe creative works that have been produced by every level of engineer: student, faculty, and staff(and now elementary, middle, and high school students).IntroductionA poetry forum was created eleven years ago to simply provide a place where engineeringstudents could

Conference Session

M3C: Mentoring into the profession

Collection

2019 FYEE Conference

Authors

Roger J Marino P.E., Drexel University; Rosie Sullivan, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Dionne Gordon-Starks, College of Engineering, Drexel University

Tagged Topics

FYEE Conference - Paper Submission

attend an event on campusand write about their experience at the event. The reflection paper included the requirement toelucidate how attending the event may help the student to build their network at the University.In addition to this assignment, course instructors were focused on building in additional groupactivities and in-class assignments that encouraged students to share ideas with peers, thusbuilding their in-class peer network. A final group project was replaced with a final reflectionpaper.undeclared studentsThe greatest adjustment to the delivery of this course was the increased focus on supportingUndeclared Engineering students. During AY 1718 Undeclared Engineering students wereintegrated into sections that were major-specific. The

Conference Session

Division Experimentation and Lab-Oriented Studies - Pedagogy of Lab Courses

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arash Mahboobin, University of Pittsburgh; Renee M. Clark, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

, CA: John Wiley &Sons pp.120, 231, 247, 261Fulwiler, T. (1987a). The Journal Book. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Publishers, 45-46Fulwiler, T. (1987b). Teaching with Writing. Upper Montclair, NJ: Boynton/Cook Publishers,37-44Gragson, D. & Hagen, J. (2010). Developing Technical Writing Skills in the Physical ChemistryLaboratory: A Progressive Approach Employing Peer Review. Journal of Chemical Education,87(1), 62-65Neuendorf, K. (2002). The Content Analysis Guidebook. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage PublicationsNorusis, M. (2005). SPSS 14.0 statistical procedures companion. Upper Saddle River, NJ:Prentice Hall, 152, 183Olds, B. (1994). Using Draft Reviews to Improve Writing and Thinking in Engineering Classes.Proceeding of the Frontiers in

Conference Session

Engineering Physics & Physics Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Teresa L. Larkin, American University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

student writing as a learning and assessment tool in her introductory physics courses for non-majors. She has been an active member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) for over 25 years. Dr. Larkin served on the Board of Directors for ASEE from 1997-1999 as Chair of Professional Interest Council (PIC) III and as Vice President of PICs. Dr. Larkin has received numerous national and international awards including the ASEE Distinguished Educator and Service Award from the Physics and Engineering Physics Division in 1998. Dr. Larkin received the Outstanding Teaching in the General Education Award from AU in 2000. In 2000 – 2001 she served as a

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Renee M Clark, University of Pittsburgh; Matthew Allan Moss, University of South Florida; Autar Kaw, University of South Florida; Rasim Guldiken, University of South Florida

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

“surroundings” in an engineeringclassroom. We posed an open-ended reflection question to engineering undergraduates at a largeUS university about their classroom surroundings and its impact on their learning andcomprehension. The reflection prompt defined surroundings as the “conditions and objects thatsurround you.” This reflection question was part of an NSF-funded study on the use of weeklyreflection in a flipped fluid mechanics course to drive metacognitive development and lifelonglearning skills. During class, students were encouraged to collaborate with their peers duringproblem solving to achieve collective understanding and interact with the instructor. Based on aninductive, emergent content analysis of the reflection data with two analysts, we

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Renee M Clark, University of Pittsburgh; Autar Kaw, University of South Florida; Rasim Guldiken, University of South Florida

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

university about their classroom surroundings and its impact on their learning andcomprehension. The reflection prompt defined surroundings as the “conditions and objects thatsurround you.” This reflection question was part of an NSF-funded study on the use of weeklyreflection in a flipped fluid mechanics course to drive metacognitive development and lifelonglearning skills. During class, students were encouraged to collaborate with their peers duringproblem solving to achieve collective understanding and interact with the instructor. Based on aninductive, emergent content analysis of the reflection data with two analysts, we obtained anunexpected result. Specifically, the most-frequently mentioned positive classroom “surroundings”was “peers” (46

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Sharp, Vanderbilt University

peers also evaluate the presentations inclass. Using a checklist to rate presentation skills and write comments, students evaluate thespeakers and give them the checklists. It is gratifying to see speakers pore over these and evenmore gratifying when peer evaluators make the same comments as the instructor.Teamwork Training with the Kolb Learning Style Inventory. Working in teams in theengineering classroom and laboratory is a topic explored in engineering education papers,especially in the last ten years.27 One activity I have used for years is teamwork training with theKolb Learning Style Inventory (LSI). Teaching students how learning styles affect teaminteraction and even leadership styles can help students improve their team's performance