declare their major on the entrance to theirfirst year.I. IntroductionThe experiences accumulated by students during their first year in college have a lastingimpact on the rest of their academic lives [1]. The sense of career and institutional belonging,as well as the self-efficacy beliefs of students, have been identified as crucial factors for theirpersistence and success [2] [3]. We argue that both these factors are affected by the awarenessfirst-year students have about their chosen field of study. This is particularly true forinstitutions admitting students into a specific major since their first college year.An assessment of the reasons reported by first- and second-year students in the host institutionfor choosing an engineering major
-related higher education programs, and STEM-related career pathways.Research to determine the impact of the program on students' interest, understanding, and self-efficacy towards STEM careers, as well as teachers and undergraduate students’ understandingof promoting change, will also be conducted. The Partnerships in Education and Resilience(PEAR) Common Instrument for students and teachers, and interviews with stakeholders arebeing used to support data gathering and program feedback. These data sources will be used forprogram assessment and future research.Introduction An interdisciplinary team of faculty, staff, and students at Illinois State University (ISU)is collaborating with Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and non-profit Community
of the engineering workforce [1], [2]. AcES has endeavored to attract, support andretain through graduation talented, but underprepared (non-calculus-ready) first-time, full-timeengineering and computing undergraduate students from underrepresented populations byimplementing established, research-based student success and retention strategies. During theseven (7) years of NSF funding, this program has served 71 students and supported 28 studentswith renewable S-STEM scholarships.Past research used surveys and individual and focus group interviews to measure AcES scholars’feelings of institutional inclusion, engineering self-efficacy and identity, and assessment of theirown development of academic and professional success skills [1], [2
to interactwith peers and creates a hostile climate for women and other minorities, who are more likely tocommunicate and work collaboratively. Participants of ROLE are not alienated from thesecontexts and the following assertions in Table 1 prove the need to develop self-efficacy to beable to navigate Engineering: Table 1. Participants’ opinions on navigating Engineering Strongly Undecided Disagree/Strongly Assertions Agree/ Agree Disagree I am able to work effectively on my own. 94% - 6% I am able to manage my time effectively. 81% 13% 6% I am
which included experiences with faculty, course learning, andstigma as a transfer student [1]. Some articles simplified these factors describing them asacademic counseling, perceptions of the transfer process, experiences with faculty, andlearning/study skills [25], [27], [28]. Building on Laanan’s research, Moser [29] added severalwidely accepted constructs to the transfer student capital theory: staff validation at communitycollege, faculty validation at community college, faculty mentoring at community college,financial knowledge, active coping style, social coping style, motivation and self-efficacy, socialsupport at the four-year university, and formal collaboration with faculty at the communitycollege.Theoretical Frameworks The
persistenceand graduation outcomes (Dewsbury, et al., 2019). In addition to socioeconomic factors, FGSalso choose engineering for the ability to make a societal impact (Thompson, 2021).STEM FGS Academic DeterminantsFGS are enrolled in STEM programs at a lower rate than CGS (Chen & Carroll, 2005) and havelower persistence and graduate rates (Chen & Soldner, 2013). Studies show STEM FGS are lessacademically prepared for college as (determined by college prep courses and standardized testscores), and have lower math and science self-efficacy than CGS (Green & Sanderson, 2017).Despite these precollege academic readiness deficiencies, FGS still enter college with high levelsof interest in engineering programs (Robinson et al., 2018).Performing
learning goals in a bid to improve their learning [8]. Also, by self-assessingtheir learning, students are brought into the learning process thereby making them active and notpassive contributors to their own learning [6]. On the other hand, instructors also find self-assessments to be valuable as they take advantage of it to improve students' self-efficacy therebymaking the students commit to learning outside of the classroom [6], [7], [10]. It was found in anengineering course that final grades were higher for students who took self-assessmentscompared to those that didn’t [11]. As a result, Baisley [11] argued that self-assessment eitherimproves the performance of students or that high-performing students are more likely to takeself
programs- reporting the efficacyof such courses within the context of such available resources is of broad interest to theengineering community. This study sought to measure the effectiveness of a clinical observationscourse designed for a major land-grant, public university without proximity to a medical school.We compared IP generation and pre- and post-class surveys were used to quantify students’ self-efficacy, motivations, and ability to make connections to real-world problems. The total numberof IP applications increased more than two-fold following the adoption of the course, and surveyresults indicated students’ collective improving understanding of the design process. Ongoingwork will continue to examine the long-term impacts of the
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studentsfrom these schools are underrepresented minority students with financial need.The objective of PtoBP: to have Scholars show higher retention/persistence rates. Specifically, to have a90% second-year retention rate, and a 90% five-year graduation rate; and to have at least half of thePtoBP Scholars intern in power engineering and work in power engineering.Key Program FeaturesPtoBP dovetails well with BFCIT’s EE program, that strives to provide support to its students who tendto be low-income students from underrepresented groups. To that end, the EE program incorporatesactivities and infrastructure that promote conditions for student success in STEM fields such as: mathcompetency [1, 2, 3], self-efficacy [2, 4], met financial need [5, 6
study indicate thatentrepreneurship education successfully influences entrepreneurial self-efficacy, entrepreneurialattitude, and the entrepreneurial mindset. On the other hand, entrepreneurial self-efficacypromotes entrepreneurial attitude instead of the entrepreneurial mindset. Furthermore,entrepreneurial attitude plays an essential role in mediating both entrepreneurship education andself-efficacy toward students' entrepreneurial mindset.” (p. 1). They further argue that thecurriculum needs to focus on increasing self-efficacy and positive mindsets by providing those‘mastery experiences’ that allow students to try out entrepreneurship skills in supportedenvironments. In practice, this looks like supporting more internships, providing
Imagination framework) [1] included in the curriculum to guidestudents through a detailed analysis of a song’s lyrics and their meaning, and 2) teachers’ self-efficacy for and attitudes around teaching on racial equity-related topics, including the specificpedagogical approaches non-racist teaching, culturally relevant teaching, and anti-racist teaching.This paper will present the results of the current evaluation with a specific focus on these twonewly added areas of inquiry. Results indicate that students and teachers found lyric analysis andthe OUTKAST Imagination framework to be a useful and valuable tool, and that teachers aregenerally comfortable with, and seek opportunities for, teaching on race-related topics, but theyvary in their self
their way through these learning experiences too, issomething that provides, in the face of ambiguity, to create agency and build self-directedlearners: “Yeah, so I think there are there are course aspects and there's general, general thought process that come through. So, one of the big themes … is self-efficacy. Given a problem, figure out how to solve it. Right. It’s open ended. Is that right? You may not be the technical expert. You may not be even aware of the background, but it's on you to figure it out. And you can do it right. You don't you don't need to be an expert to solve a problem. This whole project-based learning thing, sort of coupling design thinking leads to this increase in self
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]. These brain cells are the building blocks for core human spatial reasoning and thought. Thenotion that learning and memory are neurobiological processes provides opportunities to explorehow pedagogical techniques might harness these known neurological processes to create andretrieve new (geospatial) thinking patterns in STEM education. Learning is possible because thebrain creates memories through altering the synaptic connections between specific neurons,stores them in connected ensembles of neurons, and retrieves them by reactivating those sameneurons and connections [23].A recipe for nurturing spatial literacy as a 4-step process includes self-efficacy, context, scaleand pedagogy [16]. First, self-efficacy (i.e., gender, experience, age
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student will complete the Felder/Soloman Indexof Learning Styles Questionnaire [13]. (See Appendix F.) Finally, it is not enough to understandthe definitions for diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice. The authors attempt to measurethe feeling of diversity, equity and inclusion by measuring self-efficacy as it relates to impostersyndrome. A first attempt will include having students assess their performance on the activitiesthrough a reflection exercise. NVivo will be used to assess the student reflections for commonthemes. These evaluations will be conducted in the upper level courses with the scaled upactivities.TreatmentsWater Filtration Activity including Water Infrastructure EquityThere is a global and national disparity in access
learning is widely accepted as an integral part of engineeringeducation, as these experiences have been shown to improve students’ vocational self-conceptand work self-efficacy, as well as provide higher starting salaries post-graduation [10-11]. In thecontext of this study, enrolment in the program may signal students’ intent to be part of theengineering profession, or at least to obtain some professional experience in the field of theirdegree. However, given that the students are in their first year, we assume that they remain at anearly stage of professional socialization. Therefore, their expectations for the profession and theirown career trajectories may reflect their implicit assumptions about engineering and serve as abaseline for future
Lab Learning Outcomes that resulted specifically from completion ofthe lab exercises. Figure 4: Pneumatic Finite State machineAssessment StrategiesAs a method of direct assessment for the lab experiences, students were given a pre-quizbefore the first PLC laboratory and then the same quiz with randomized question order andrandomized answer order after each PLC lab as a post-quiz. Students were not allowed to seewhat they had gotten incorrect on any of their previous attempts. An example of this quiz isshown in the appendix of this paper.To indirectly assess the effectiveness of the lab exercises in helping students achieve thelearning outcomes, students were asked to rate their self-efficacy in an anonymous 7
complete autonomy to organize, schedule, and run the program as they seefit. The upper layers of the program – the graduate student and the faculty member – providesupport, advice, and resources, but the undergraduate students are the ones iterating and formingthe program. Through these means, the program has evolved in several ways, including theintroduction of group meetings and a semesterly service project, which were the directimplementations of student ideas. This focus on student voice and agency enables students tobuild self-efficacy and make meaning from their experiences with the mentorship program.IntroductionThis paper describes a mentorship program for undergraduate engineering students at a publicurban research university, and it will
that self-efficacy and learners' achievement goals significantly impact STEMcollege students' motivation, according to a study conducted in Canada [8]. Another studyestablished that reinforcing learners' self-belief and peer collaboration increased motivationamong students studying mathematics [19]. Therefore, this study explores how experiment-centric pedagogy, a hands-on learning approach, influenced undergraduates' motivation incivil engineering at one of the historically black universities and colleges, building onpreliminary research. Two research questions guided the study:(i) Is there a significant difference between the motivation of civil engineeringundergraduates pre- and postimplementation of experiment-centric pedagogy?(ii) Does
leavedoctoral programs without their intended degrees at higher rates than their peers [4]. As recentreports indicate, women’s enrollment in engineering graduate programs increased by only 4percent from 2014 to 2019 [5]. From observation at Penn State, department-level efforts toimprove the well-being of graduate students and limit attrition often rely on professionaldevelopment or lecture-based approaches to establish community. While these efforts can beuseful, literature shows that feelings of isolation and a lack of sense of community, rather than alack of career preparedness, contribute to attrition from graduate programs [6].Instructors have effectively increased student retention in engineering fields by encouraging self-efficacy and belonging
engineering drew on familial capital to navigate unwelcomingengineering environments [Smith, 2022]. Mexican-American and Latinx learners, in otherstudies, regularly drew on their strengths in cultivating familismo and other cultural assets intheir progression through engineering programs [Rodriguez et al., 2023; Rincón & Rodriguez,2021; Wilson-Lopez et al., 2016]. While many of these studies employ qualitative and mixedmethods, several have used quantitative methods [Denton et al., 2020]. In a systematic review ofCCW in STEM education research, Denton et al. (2020) identified two studies that utilize asolely quantitative approach. The first quantitative study explored the relationship between thecapitals of CCW and the self-efficacy of
) [7]. SCCT explains students’development of vocational and academic interests, career-relevant choices and decisions, andpersistence in professional, educational and occupational fields [8]. It specifically suggests thatenvironmental contextual elements combined with learning experiences impact self-efficacy andoutcome expectations to advance an individual’s interests and commitment decisions. The surveyitems were adopted from a previously tested model and study by Lent et al. [9] that examined theinterplay between interest, satisfaction and students' intentions regarding engineering majors.The pre-survey was given to students within their first month of taking the course and thepost-survey was given to students during their last month in the
, G. (2005, June). A Qualitative Investigation Of A First Year Engineering Service Learning Program. In 2005 Annual Conference (pp. 10-77). 12. Main, J. B., Johnson, B. N., Ramirez, N. M., Ebrahiminejad, H., Ohland, M. W., & Groll, E. A. (2020). A case for disaggregating engineering majors in engineering education research: The relationship between co- op participation and student academic outcomes. International Journal of Engineering Education, 36(1), 170-185. 13. Raelin, J. A., Bailey, M., Hamann, J., Pendleton, L., Raelin, J., Reisberg, R., & Whitman, D. (2011). The effect of cooperative education on change in self-efficacy among undergraduate students: Introducing work self-efficacy
Perceptions of teaching effectiveness under in- Section 5.2 person and online modes Learning (attitudes, Interest in online versus in-person teaching Section 5.2 knowledge and skills) Self-efficacy in online teaching skills Behaviour New teaching practice introduced to meet online Section 5.2 needs Results Likelihood for teaching online versus in person Section 5.3 in the future Likelihood for using particular instructional development opportunities in the futureIn our analysis, we used the descriptive statistics and thematic analysis for
longitudinal changes in the self-efficacy of undergraduatestudents studying engineering. The LAESE undergraduate instrument has been tested andvalidated on male and female engineering students. The LAESE questions will be administeredeach fall to determine if self-efficacy increases as they progress through school.The second section was based on the questions in the Clance Imposter Phenomenon Scale [54].The Clance Impostor Phenomenon Scale was designed to measure the concept that individualsare successful by external standards but have an illusion of personal incompetence. Thequestions assess components of the phenomenon such as ideas about self-doubt and achievingsuccess by chance.The third section asked questions about the student’s advisors
modelintegrated elements from Lent's Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) [7] and Tinto'sDeparture model [8] into a hybrid structure aimed at boosting success metrics among LIATS.Figure 1 reproduces the structure of interventions underpinned by the L-CAS model [9]. Figure 1: LIAT college access and success model [9].L-CAS activities followed a longitudinal path consonant with student development, withobjectives ranging from boosting their sense of belonging and self-efficacy beliefs to propellingthem into actions and immersing them into real-life contexts [10]. Context scenarios targeted thedevelopment of collaborations and interactions in communities of practice that led students todevelop practical skills for becoming future
education andbuild capacity for student success. This project will use a data-driven and evidence-based approachto identify the barriers to the success of underrepresented minority students and to generate newknowledge on the best practices for increasing students’ retention and graduation rates, self-efficacy, professional development, and workforce preparedness. Three objectives underpin thisoverall goal. The first is to develop and implement a Summer Research Internship Programtogether with community college partners. The second is to establish an HSI Engineering SuccessCenter to provide students with academic resources, networking opportunities with industry, andcareer development tools. The third is to develop resources for the professional
. Many of these students may not have opportunities forpractical engineering training without this course. In a survey conducted at the end of the course, studentsreported improvement in all of the following three areas: (1) knowledge and skills in and out of theirmajors, (2) self-efficacy in solving complex problems in diverse team settings, and (3) soft skills such asleadership, collaboration, and public speaking. Many students indicated the course offered very valuablereal-world experience during their engineering education. Students also commented that this courseexperience is challenging but inspiring and motivating for them to pursue engineering careers. Theirresponses to open-ended questions revealed a high level of engagement and