Conference Session

Undergraduate Peer Educators: Mentoring, Observing, Learning

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico; Catherine Anne Hubka, University of New Mexico; Eva Chi, University of New Mexico

Tagged Topics

ASEE Board of Directors

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

comprehension and retention [34, 42, 58, 59]. Even simple strategies, such asend-of-class “minute papers” that ask students to reflect on what they learned in class and whatremains unclear can provide opportunities for students to organize their understanding [60]. Thisapproach is effective regardless of instructor level of experience and across levels of studentability [61]. The reflective process can be effectively integrated into a peer review process [52,54].Identity as writing engineersAs seniors in a chemical engineering degree program, the students in our study have begun toform engineering identities. The structure of our program—as is typical of many—in whichstudents take technical writing early in their degree programs in the English