look like, which is__” Like it’s fine to be 63 curious about what people are from. But like to make it into this game is really__ 64 and like it happens a lot, which is kind of weird. I guess because like I don’t look what 65 they want me to look like, they got very confused.In lines 55 to 65, Amber reflects on the frequently occurring “guessing game” around Amber’sidentity/ies- which further highlights how society’s focus on normative racial categories can beproblematic for individuals who do not fit neatly into these boxes. The stereotype people hold aboutChinese people (“I don’t look what they want me to look like”) might contribute to people’s confusionregarding Amber’s identity. Even though Amber acknowledges that
to pause and reflect on how these experiences may impact our classrooms going forward.In fact, some of these experiences may actually have produced encouraging outcomes and if so,we need to take the time to assess and evaluate how to translate them back into the learningenvironment of our classrooms going forward. One may even be able to argue that the onlineexperience had a positive impact on learners that, for one reason or another, were notcomfortable interacting in an in-person classroom. For these students, we might say that theonline experience gave them a front-row seat and perhaps allowed them to engage morecomfortably. For other students, the exact opposite might be the case. Additionally, with onlinelearning there were also new
) adversity in the course is common andnormal and b) these struggles tend to be temporary and surmountable with time and effort. It doesso with five parts, delivered in the following order: 1) The instructor verbalizes the normalcy and surmountability of adversity in college and in the course more specifically. 2) Students are asked to complete a writing exercise in which they reflect on the challenges they have already experienced in college and how those challenges might change with time. 3) Students are then presented with stories written in the first-person and attributed to more senior students. These stories are tailored to the classroom environment following focus group input from prior students in the course. The
Applied Science at Northwestern University and the Associate Director of the Northwestern Center for Engineering Education Research. Dr. Cole’s primary teaching is in capstone and freshman design, and her research interest are in engineering design education.Dr. Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University Kevin Dahm is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. He earned his BS from Worces- ter Polytechnic Institute (92) and his PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (98). He has pub- lished two books, ”Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics” with Donald Visco, and ”Interpreting Diffuse Reflectance and Transmittance” with father Donald Dahm.Dr. Bruce K. Vaughen, American Institute of Chemical
rarely presented as a concern. Sledge-hammer approaches were common.Experiment procedures that might discover the threshold for success were rarely promoted. Preconceived Notions – Some reports clearly reflected the team’s preconceived notions of theproject goals or requirements. Project narrative was ignored by some teams. Many groups ignore privacyand thermal comfort issues mentioned as critical concerns in the project brief and proposal opening the doorright after a shower similar to their practice at home. Some team even suggests bringing in box fans blowingair into the bathroom. Ineffective Internal Team Collaboration – In student teams, collaboration rarely resulted in evendistribution of work and, by inference, learning
safety tips werealso reviewed. Our goals for incorporating the toy adaptation module included providingstudents with an opportunity to: ● work together as a team towards an end goal and hone team working skills through collaboration ● make a difference in the local community by increasing access to accessible and developmentally important toys, and apply knowledge to create a positive societal impact ● hone technical skills including soldering and circuit analysis, and gain hands-on experience in problem-solving ● participate in hands-on exploration of circuitry concepts ● engage in conversations and reflection regarding concepts of accessibility of universal designLab Session: Teams of ~3 students were
be gleaned from their perspectives [5], [7]–[9]. Analysis ofdiscrepant cases that fall outside the norm is a critical strategy in qualitative research [7]–[9].The uncertainty and inconsistency involved in such outlier cases do not invalidate theparticipants’ stories but instead reflect the complexities in the phenomena under study [5], in thiscase, mentorship. Discrepant cases can provide clues to generating innovative hypotheses andunderstandings not readily apparent in more common responses [5], [8], [10], and, as such,require close examination to reveal their meaning [8].We leverage attachment theory as a psychological and developmental lens [11], [12] to guidethis study. Attachment theory has been extensively used to examine mentoring
. Compute relevant response L. Apply work/energy principlesGrading for MasteryIdentifying the mastery objectives, requiring them for all solutions, and assessing every other week resultsin a lot of data and information on how each student approaches problem solving. Instead of recordingperformance on each assessment as a single score, we look for and track demonstrations of masteryobjective by objective. This approach helps students to break away from the scoring mentality and focusbetter on their strengths and weakness as reflected in their progress with respect to the mastery objectives.Mastery is defined as a redundant demonstration of an ability to perform a given objective. The coursegrade is based upon the
example, students are asked to consider the ways in which the lyrics they analyzeaddress collective action and the pursuit of equity for the common good in order to promote asociety that is just, considering equity for all individuals that reflects the cultural and socialdiversities amongst them. These ideals are baked into a Hip Hop-inspired consciousness, andautomatically considered in the analysis exercises that students participate in. This approach guidesstudent creatives to design, create, and write songs that remix themes that advance theirunderstanding of not only the 7 principles, but also their understanding of race, equity, and justicein their daily lives. EarSketch The Your Voice is Power curriculum is also centered around
on tension and compression members, small groups of students arepresented with the foam model and corresponding handout which is included in Appendix B.Students determined the cross-sectional dimensions and height of the column using a ruler, thencalculated slenderness ratios (as defined by NDS 2018 Section 3.7.1.3) [13]. After reflection onhow these ratios may affect buckling behavior, students induced two buckling scenarios bypressing on the top of the model to simulate a concentrated axial load as shown in Figure 3. Thefirst scenario involves a completely unbraced length, in which the column buckles along theweak axis in single curvature. The second scenario involves bracing along the weak axis at mid-height, in which the column will
” “Give more time to reflect and think on the process. It would also allow us to design a better structure and build it better.” “Use more CE403 concepts. Could work on different pieces of it throughout the semester as we learn the relevant concepts.” “Providing more example/reference material because the first few assignments were very confusing and took a long time. Videos or other resources on it would be very helpful.” Figure 13: Student Feedback on the open-ended question: “What changes do you recommend making to improve the engineering design project experience?”The final student feedback data analyzed were responses to Likert questions included in theanonymous course-end-feedback survey for the last
the company, “. . . and then where I’m at now,[shifting from] the technical side to the supervisory side, it’s more managerial tasks and also thedesign.” (P-3). The nature of one’s responsibilities and roles also reflected a level of experienceand competence in the company. For example, the following quotes describe first an experiencedindividual’s role and responsibilities compared to the second quote from someone relatively lessexperienced in the organization. [experienced] I work with everybody. I’m like the top of the triangle for the project in the field. I work with the project manager and all my contractors, suppliers, vendors, customers, etc. They all go through me and then I work with project management and my
teaching in his life. This was when his views of issues of equity started to surface.Each participant’s experiences contribute to a fuller sense of the challenges facing gendered and/orracially-minoritized students in introductory engineering programming courses. Interestingly, theauthority and social infrastructures proved to be the most important for the three student participants,reflecting existing scholarship about the importance of community, mentorship, and student dispositionsof confidence in programming education. The physical and operational infrastructures also discouragedactive participation by all students, while challenges with the economic infrastructure didn’t surface inthese interviews. 7. Future workOur ongoing research and
students’ willingness to reflect on their understanding, to identify misconceptions andareas of deficiency, and to make adjustments to improve learning and performance [1], [11],[12]. Constructive well-designed feedback has also been shown to improve student motivationand self-efficacy beliefs [13], [14]. Academic integrity research argues that meaningfulsupportive feedback empowers students, reducing their likelihood to cheat [15]. Educatorsadopting formative feedback as an instructional intervention too can benefit from the process, asit can offer them valuable insights into students’ understanding of the subject material to helpinform their pedagogy [16], [17].While most of the earlier research focused either on feedback to students as a
knowing what to prepare for. So, I even have support from the students themselves.Poobah is another EIF who highly values developing meaningful relationships with his students.During the first year of the COVID pandemic, he shared how challenging it was to build thoserelationships, given that he lost that valuable time before and after class to speak one-on-onewith students. In the interview, he reflected on one memorable example from before COVID todescribe why he appreciates building these relationships with his students and what he hoped areturn to campus would bring for both him and his students. So, I was sitting next to one of my students in my class and I looked at him, I said, "Well, you look a little sad today." And he
, the theoretical framework of intersectionality and college studentsimportant. The term “intersectionality,” commonly attributed to feminist legal scholar KimberléCrenshaw (1989, 1991), posited that sexism or racism does not singularly and fully account fordiscrimination in the legal arena. Within higher education, applying an intersectional frameworkcan more accurately reflect the diverse experiences of students and provide insight intoeducational inequality. Most intersectional studies focus on the interplay of race/ethnicity,gender, sexual orientation, or social class, and their impact on student academic and socialexperiences (Duran & Jones, 2019; Santa-Ramirez et al., 2022). Because of the manyintersecting identities common in the FGS
undergraduate degree. As shebegan to integrate more fully into campus life and the engineering center, she realized that herhome life, in which she was raised with a single, feminist mother who was the provider in thefamily, contrasted with the patriarchal nature of the atmosphere at the university. This caused herto experience cultural shock and felt pressured as a woman to suppress parts of herself inengineering spaces. Reflecting on this pattern prompted her desire to push for change to improvethe experiences of underrepresented student groups in engineering. She identifies as an ally forLGBTQ+ people, and the lack of emphasis on LGBTQ+ students in the STEM research literaturetroubled her and motivated her to take part in this research.Bailey Bond
fivedistinct sections: an introduction to the module, followed by a prior knowledge review, the corecontent, a knowledge check, an application task, and then a reflection activity. For moreinformation about the structure of the learning block modules see [16], [25].Each interview consisted of two engineering scenarios such that participants engaged with a totalof four distinct scenarios. Within each interview the scenarios were presented sequentially.Participants were first shown a problem statement that included information on the background,goal, and requirements for the problem. After reviewing the problem statement, they were askeda series of questions broadly centered around gauging participants initial impressions of theproblem, how they would
high frequency of testing is a positive washback because it encouragespractice and review[32]. Having high-frequency quizzes develops good study habits, theyconducted an experiment where they concluded that students with weekly testing performedbetter than the no-testing group [33]According to Elsalem [28], students who pass their exams do not always learn and vice versa. Inpart, because grades are being used as an indicator of academic achievement [34]. Grades areimportant for students in practical terms, but they don't necessarily reflect the amount ofknowledge the students have acquired, their understanding of the subject, or their creativity inthat field, which means that the results obtained may not represent the level of knowledge
, contextual, and perception-based phenomena of interest, asemi-structured approach was used when collecting data [51]. Focus groups consisted of four tofive participants, lasted about one hour, and were conducted at the end of each semester. Thefirst author led all focus groups, with the second or last author as a secondary interviewer andnotetaker. At the end of each focus group, the first author compiled these notes, information onhow the focus group went, and initial impressions of the data into summarized memos.Guiding questions prompted participants to reflect on their interest in their current majors andminors (if applicable) as well as how this interest has changed since the previous focus group.The guiding questions targeting interest were
project-basedlearning framework. Section 5 concludes by reflecting on the outcomes of the proposed project-basedlearning approach, offering insights into future directions and potential improvements, anddiscussing approaches for developing other engineering courses using a similar methodology.2 Setting Up RRBot in ROS and GazeboIn this section, we outline Assignment 0, designed to assist students in setting up a reliabletoolchain for the proposed PBL framework. For the project-based assignments in the course, we usethe RRBot model, which stands for “Revolute-Revolute Manipulator Robot”. The RRBot model iscommonly used as a starting point for more complex robot models, as it provides a relatively simplebut realistic example of a robot with joint
wasrepresentative of the cohort and that the outcomes can be treated as an accurate reflection ofthe participants’ opinions. Confidence intervals for the surveys were all lower than 3.5% at a95% level of confidence.In each year, the pre-participation response sets facilitate “a consideration of the knowledgebase of the CC transfer students in the summer bridge program as the students were asked torate their level of experience” [22] with as many as 27 different topics. “A ten-point scale wasused and informants were instructed to submit a rating of zero for ‘no experience/ability’ and arating of ten for being ‘well informed/very capable’ in the area” [22]. “The responses facilitateda rank ordering of ratings by topic, with the highest mean as the primary
Figure 1. The main kit components include an Arduino based microprocessor called aRedboard, a motor driver, gear motors, servo motor, ultrasonic distance sensor, TMP36temperature sensor, photocell, Tricolor LCD, assorted color LCDs, buttons, power switch,piezoelectric speaker, resistors, LED display, various wires and wheels. Students begin to learnabout basic circuits, breadboards, programmable microcontrollers and the use of the Arduino IDE.In addition, a robot chassis is provided along with reflective sensors, ultrasonic distance sensorsand servo motors that are used as an initial platform in the robot builds.The process of learning the basics of Arduino is accomplished by completing 3 mini projects whichare outlined as follows. In project 1
the home, and the power demonstrator board can be updated to reflect andintegrate those technologies. For example, many electrical outlets now are integrated with USBand USB-C ports to eliminate the need for charging plugs. Bluetooth enabled LED lights andthermostats that control everything from common outlets to electric resistance heaters can alsobe incorporated. Additionally, updated oscilloscopes can be built into the board at variouslocations to show the voltage waveform (AC) or level (DC) depending upon location within thesystem and device used. Finally, data loggers can be included on the board to track powerrequirements, start-up power for inductive loads, and overall energy consumption of variousappliances.Assessment StrategyThe most
visualization of both a low-fidelity and a high- Week 8 testing fidelity prototype, and a plan for how field testing might be carried out. summary Outline of pitch Included an outline for each deliverable, using the rubrics as guides Week 9 and proposal Practice pitch A run through of the oral pitches for the class and the teaching team Week 10Finally, at the end of the project, each student wrote a personal reflection and completed apeer evaluation of each team member. The personal reflection assignment asked each studentto describe what was learned during the project and why it was significant for them. Promptquestions around the design process itself were used as a guide to help students focus theirreflection
studyattitudes for face-to-face classes, but it appears that our model is at least somewhat effective atengaging groups of minority students who, according to literature, may not prefer peer activities.VI. AcknowledgementThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.(2122442). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation.VII. References[1] A. P. Carnevale and N. Smith, ‘Working Learners-The New Normal’, 2018. [Online]. Available: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdlink?did=842878281&Fmt=7&clientId=10461&RQT=309& VName=PQD[2] D. A. Santiago
literature, while table 2 has three based on the foundational knowledge anddistinctions discussed between self-concept and self-efficacy. This re-classification focuses onthe variables that are task-specific in regard to the assessment of outcomes essentially. Forinstance, academic self-description was used to measure self-efficacy in the paper it was pickedup from [20]. However, because Marsh [43] used academic self-description questionnaire toassess self-concept, it was adapted and reflected in this review. It was an added advantage thatMarsh [43] had used the academic self-description questionnaire to assess self-concept in theoriginal paper.Table 2: Re-classification of variables as pertaining to either academic or non-academicself-concept, or
share remain, while a group of teams repeat [7] through all presentations. This is presentations their presentations as they rotate repeated for another group of through breakout rooms. presentations until all teams have presented to every team. Self-reflection to a prompt (1 min.), Breakout rooms for each grouping paired discussion (2 min.), group 1-2-4-all and PollEv to help
learning engagement, students’ motivation, andcognitive load on SE students’ studies (e.g. by de Almeida et al.20) suggested using gamificationin software engineer programs. Gamification is using the game design tools outside the gamingcontext such as in education21.During COVID-19, almost all regular in-classroom education switched to online education. Allthe studies in this period discussed the transition of traditional teaching to online education andthe impact of this transition22,23,24. Barr et al.25 provided reflections on the rapid transition toonline delivery for SE education. In this sense, the study by Motogna et al.26 observed a trend ofreducing exams and increasing project-based assessments. Another work27 discussed approachesto