internationally), knowledge production, philanthropy, socialentrepreneurship, voluntary simplicity, self-efficacy and independence and occupationexperiences [13, 14,15,16,17,18, 19]. These studies found that study abroad experiences have astrong influence on multiple markers of personal and professional growth, however, this impactvaries based on the amount of time elapsed since the experience [20].Higher education institutions have been settings elevated goals of facilitating high-impactlearning experiences such as study abroad programs. During 2018-19, the number of U.S.students who studied abroad for credit grew by 1.6 percent that represented about 1.8 percent ofall U.S. students enrolled at institutions of higher education in the United States [21
surveyed before and after completing the project on their knowledge and beliefson innovation and entrepreneurship. The survey instruments are adapted from the pre- and post-self-efficacy survey developed by Weaver and Rayess [15] to identify shifts in entrepreneurialmindset and are in Appendix A. Some questions from the 2018 survey were removed for 2019survey because they were not aligned with the learning outcomes of the project. These werequestions related to understanding how capital is raised and knowledge of the different types ofintellectual property. The responses for those questions were not used in this analysis.The results from these surveys are contained in Figure 1 along with symbolic notations if theone-tailed paired samples t-tests
completing the lab assignment(Cohen’s d = −0.004).Figure 4: Comparison of pre and post-test results on a relevant content test for students who didand did not use Gridlock.Students were also administered a self-efficacy survey that asked questions in three categories: 1.Confidence in ability, with questions such as ”Do you feel that you have the skills necessary tosucceed in engineering”; 2. Feelings of belonging, with questions such as ”Do you feel that youthink in the same way as other students in your engineering department”; and 3. Feelings ofalienation, with questions such as ”Do you feel alienated from engineering at your university”.Students then rated on a scale of 1 to 7, 1 being strongly disagree and 7 being strongly agree.Table 2 shows
readiness toteach online in terms of the core competencies and self-efficacy. It is critical faculty havepedagogical, technical, and administrative competencies for readiness to teach online. Competencerefers to a state of being well qualified to perform an activity, task, or job function [11]. Facultyneed to be adequately trained and prepared to effectively teach online to achieve faculty andstudent satisfaction. With the increasing demand for online instruction resulting in more adjunct(part-time) faculty, professional development must keep pace with the trend of an increasednumber of faculty [12]. Challenges of isolation and lack of development of faculty whotelecommute or perform their job remotely must be overcome. Inability to assess the
surveywas adapted from an energy literacy survey created by Dr. Jan DeWaters that has been used inmultiple contexts, including both K-12 and higher education [17], [18]. Her original survey wasdesigned to gauge energy literacy which encompasses students’ energy-related knowledge,attitudes, and intentions/behaviors [17]. The original survey examined four categories relating tostudents’ understanding of energy: cognitive, affective, self-efficacy, and behavior. The studentsscored lowest on the cognitive questions, but they were aware of many of the issues surroundingenergy and the need for conservation. We selected a total of 43 questions that focused on threeprimary areas: students’ interest in energy topics, students’ pre-existing factual knowledge
;Cohen, 2007). Mendoza-Denton et al. (2006) indicate that social support can mitigate thesechilling effects. Further, Mendoza-Denton et al. (2006) cited mentoring and cross-groupfriendships (so forming friendships with those in the other group – between genders or betweenethnicities/races, e.g.) as forms of social support that they found to have such a mitigatingeffect. Therefore, the proposed student tutoring and resource center is also planned to providesome social events to encourage student friendships, such as these important cross-groupfriendships in addition to the natural mentoring that can develop through tutoring.Belonging has been tied to self-efficacy and engagement, which also are tied to positive careeroutcomes (aka persistence in
in my ability to deliver the E4USA content to students. Discussion and Implications The goal of the E4USA project is to promote engineering ‘for all’, which includes bothstudents and educators. The literature shows that educators with greater content knowledgedemonstrate greater comfort with PD in engineering as a discipline. This is not surprisingbecause developing PD for educators with content knowledge allows the developers of that PDto focus on discipline-specific content. Involving educators with little to no experience inengineering introduces issues of lower self-efficacy and differing level of empathy to studentswho will be in their classrooms. Educators with less experience were more
variablespredefined. The second row shows Q5 Analyze-type questions for the treatment group and thecorresponding Q5 Create-type question for the control group.End-of-Lab SurveyAfter completing the auto-graded exercises, the students completed a survey, which was writtenusing validated questions from 24,25 . We asked the students self-efficacy questions and questionsabout their perception of the auto-graded exercises. Example Exercises Converted to Create-Type Q1: APPLY-type Q5: ANALYZE-type Table 3: Types of Auto-Graded ExercisesResultsLearning Efficiency (RQ1)Figure 2a shows differences in the number of attempts on each question between the two groupsthrough box-and-whisker plots with some outliers
the course was completed (p < 0.05). This demonstrates a subjectiveimprovement that could correlate positively with self-efficacy and other attitudes about thedifficulty of the material.With respect to the changes in knowledge ratings, Group 2 had greater gains than Group 3 by asignificant margin for both modules (p < 0.05). This may be explained in part by the awarenessof graduate students regarding the subject matter to come, given their higher pre-survey ratingsthan that of the undergraduates. Based on the means for the post-survey ratings, Group 2participants did not appear to experience such a surge in their knowledge that they differed in anobvious way from where Group 3 was upon both groups completing the post-survey, so the
and self-efficacy in the new generation of women STEM scholars", Women in engineering, science and technology: Education and career challenges, 97-114. 14. Grisselle Centeno, Susana Lai-Yuen, Iman Nekooeimehr, Audra Banaszak, Ashley Ishak, “The Impact of Healthcare-Related Pedagogical Interventions on Student Diversity, Motivation and Retention”, Proceedings of the 2016 Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference
University describe an introductory course on fundamentals ofelectrical and computer engineering that employs a theme-based curriculum to link theengineering topics to be taught to real-world problems2. The authors emphasize the importanceof real-world related applications. In our cooperative learning exercises, the students have theopportunity to work with the results of an independent group, and their results, in turn, is utilizedby yet another group, giving students the experience of being engaged in real-time exercises.Hutchison et. al. investigate factors influencing the beliefs of self-efficacy of the freshmanengineering students3. The group’s work revealed nine factors that contribute to the studentconfidence. These factors are understanding
activities is expected to result in better fulfillment of learningoutcomes through more inclusive learning and in better course evaluations.Bibliography1 Dee, K.C., Student Perceptions of High Course Workloads are Not Associated with Poor Student Evaluations of Instructor Performance, Journal of Engineering Education, vol.96, no.1, 2007, pp.69-78.2 Dee, K.C., Reducing Workload in Your Class Won’t “Buy” Your Better Teaching Evaluation Scores: Re- Refutation of a Persistent Myth, Proceedings of ASEE Annual Conference, June 20-23, 2004, Salt Lake City, UT.3 Ponton, M., Edmister, J.H., Ukeiley, L.S., Seiner,J.M., Understanding the Role of Self-Efficacy in Engineering Education, Journal of Engineering Education, vol.90, no.2
AC 2009-759: WHAT LIES BENEATH THE MATERIALS SCIENCE ANDENGINEERING MISCONCEPTIONS OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS?Senay Purzer, Purdue University Senay Purzer is an assistant professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She received a Ph.D. and a M.A in Science Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction from Arizona State University. She has a B.S. degree in Physics Education and a B.S.E. degree in engineering. Her creative research focuses on collaborative team learning and the role of engineering self-efficacy on student achievement.Stephen Krause, Arizona State University Stephen J. Krause is Professor in the School of Materials in the Fulton School of Engineering
same adults reported significantlylower levels of math self-efficacy. Despite the similar math test performances between older andyounger adults, graduation rates decline with the age of a nontraditional student 20.Additional nontraditional characteristics. Beyond the age characteristic, other nontraditionalfactors do not have as much empirical support. Despite this lack of research, there are somestudies that illustrate the benefits of being a nontraditional undergraduate student 21. Forexample, female students with children tend to report higher levels of psychological well-being,despite having higher levels of stress than students without children 22. For both traditional andnontraditional students, motivation varies by level and type 23
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posits that contemplation in an elementary andmiddle school setting can improve children’s social and emotional skills [2]. At the undergraduatelevel, Bernadez et al. have found software engineering students to be slightly more efficient indeveloping conceptual models after four weeks of mindfulness training [3]. Rieken et al. havefound positive correlations between mindfulness and innovation self-efficacy in undergraduateengineering students [4]. In the business world, Goleman shows that mindfulness results in“stronger focus, staying calmer under stress, better memory, and good corporate citizenship [5].”And in the military, mindfulness has attracted attention as a way to “to heal trauma-stressedveterans, make command decisions and help
Sketchtivity application will focus on self-efficacy of engineering students intheir sketching capabilities in support of enhancing their ability to share their thoughts and ideasin an unstructured sketching environment. The PhET deployment is targeted to evaluate theimpact of providing visual interpretations of physics concepts. The results will be in the form ofstudent self-evaluations and instructor observations in regard to the impact of these tools onstudent learning.BackgroundTwo existing challenges of the engineering educational process targeted by ITS products are: Students do not receive timely feedback on voluminous and complex practice work. Student understanding of concepts is improved through timely viewing of a visual model
entrepreneur. Figure 1. KEEN Pyramid [7]An added benefit of EE is that as students develop innovation and entrepreneurial skills,competencies and mindsets, they also enhance a number of non-cognitive aspects of competencesuch as perseverance, self-efficacy, life-long learning skills, and social skills. Thesecompetencies align with those promoted by the Organization for Economic Co-operation andDevelopment (OECD) [8] as necessary for participation in a knowledge-based society. Thesecompetencies are a) using tools (language, symbols, texts, knowledge, information andtechnology) interactively, b) being able to interact well in heterogeneous groups and work inteams, including managing and resolving conflict, and c) acting
who start as freshmen in engineering complete theirbaccalaureate degrees in engineering1. Reasons for this attrition among engineering studentshave been studied for many years. Seymour and Hewitt2 found two main reasons for departuresfrom the sciences: disinterest or disappointment in field, and poor academic performance withsubsequent loss of self-efficacy. Haag et al.3 also found that poor academic advising,unapproachable faculty, and complicated engineering curricula were important institutionalcontributors to student attrition. Although poor academic performance may motivate somestudents to leave engineering, other students persist despite these academic setbacks. In thispaper, rather than focusing on students who leave engineering, we
This need for a stronger STEM workforce is a function of education andawareness at all levels of student education, but it has been documented that choosing STEMmajors is largely decided by an early interest in STEM disciplines.4 As such, one of the nationalgoals set forward by the National Science and Technology Council Committee on STEMEducation is to increase participation in authentic STEM experiences for K-12 students in orderto provide students the opportunity to develop and deepen their interests in STEM as well as tobuild student self-efficacy regarding their ability to participate in STEM.1Summer camps are commonly offered as a mechanism for exposing K-12 students to STEMmajors and careers, often with the direct goal of recruiting
thinking. Luster-Teasley et al14 investigated the use offour case studies in a lab course to introduce sustainability and environmental engineeringlaboratory concepts using a modified-flipped classroom method. Students were given a casestory related to the class experiment and asked to research the topic. The in-person lab classstarted with a discussion of the case and the student’s research finding and then studentsconducted the lab exercise. Pre and post survey data indicated increased self-efficacy for ABETcriteria skills and learning gains. A problem-based learning (PBL) approach was used for an environment engineeringlaboratory component to provide an applied context to traditional experiments by Hill andMitchell15. Two problems were
implementation. In addition, exposingstudents to more challenging concepts, more productive brainstorming process and developingcooperative learning skills are also under investigation.Bibliography1. T. D. Fantz, T. J. Siller and M. A. DeMiranda, “Pre-collegiate factors influencing the self-efficacy of engineering students,” J. of Engineering Education, July 2011, vol. 100. No. 3, pp. 604-623.2. N. S. Salzman, G. D. Ricco, and M. W. Ohland, (2014), “Pre-college engineering participation among first-year engineering students”,Proc. of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IN, June 15-18.3. I. Jormanainen, Supporting Teachers Unpredictable Robotics Learning Environment, Dissertation in Forestry and
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math self-efficacy).In all cases, KA was used as a supplemental resource in a blended learning model. Blendedlearning as a term emerged in 19993 and refers to the blending of "text-based asynchronousInternet technology with face-to-face learning,"4 where the primary role of ICT is tocomplement student learning as opposed to replace face-to-face time.5 One form of blendedlearning that is becoming increasingly common in tertiary science and engineering educationis the combined use of Flipped Classroom (FC) and Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT). FC refersto a teaching structure where students receive their first exposure to the subject material priorto class so that class time can be freed up to work with the material, which is the reverse orderto
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occurring through theseexperiences. One potential solution to this problem is to use the reflections that we havecollected to date to identify what the participants have learned through each of their experiencesand what they would have liked to have learned but have not. These skills and concepts can beintegrated into a self-efficacy pre- and post-test survey instrument (see the work of McKennaand Hirsch10 for an example of a similar effort to measure learning of the design process byundergraduate engineering students). In addition to the summative reflections that we havecollected (i.e., reflections collected after the training has been completed), we shouldcomplement these with more frequent journaling of the experiences using prompts provided
many sophomores in mechanical orelectrical engineering would only begin to be exposed to. The progress over a short time spanalone indicates progressive projects that do not simply reboot from one semester to the next aremore rewarding and beneficial for student learning and development. Additionally, the studentsgain a real sense of what the design loop is, and how it can be utilized to create a great product.Students also learned how to leverage the skills diversity within their groups to maximize theeffectiveness of each individual and function within very diverse teams.Additional evaluation and self-efficacy exams need to be developed as metrics for studentgrowth and development to accurately assess the efficacy of the course, and data
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