Fall 2016, we have revised theactivity to more clearly emphasize the characteristics of a correct response, and have increasedthe scaffolding to guide students. Additionally, the revised activity is more focused than theoriginal, allowing students to spend more time on the reflection portion of the activity. Studentperformance is measured and compared in two courses at different institutions. Studentresponses on a concept inventory at the beginning and end of the term are also compared toinvestigate the development and persistence of their learning gains.1. IntroductionUnderstanding the three-dimensional relationships in crystal structures is an important skill formaterials science and engineering students. However, students struggle to
reflections. The cycle was augmented by Greenaway’s Active Reviewing Cycle,a model which provides a different way to examine experiential learning [19]. The keywordsfrom this cycle are shown within parentheses in Figure 1. FIGURE 1. KOLB EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING CYCLE WITH GREENWAY’S KEYWORDSThe concrete experience stage is used to engage students in performing some sort of activitywhere they apply their ideas and skills. Experiences from activities generate facts – the events,moments, and details associated with the activity. Next, the reflective observation stageencourages students to reflect on their experiences through mechanisms such as self-evaluation,peer discussion, and instructor feedback. Reflections generate feelings, an
veterans currently comprise 4% of Americancollege students [6]. ACE credit recommendations have changed to reflect these shifts inmilitary training and academic content. This paper discusses the extent to which changes inmilitary training, specifically that provided by the United States Army, have affected ACE’scredit recommendations at the undergraduate level.IntroductionThe American Council on Education (ACE) is based in Washington, DC. A contractor for theDepartment of Defense, ACE oversees academic evaluation of military courses. According totheir website: “ACE has provided a critical link between the U. S. Department of Defense and higher education and in this role helps our nation’s military members and veterans gain access
theory and conjectures abouthow to support chemical engineering undergraduate students to value professional skills.Because there is somewhat limited research in chemical engineering education related to theformation of professional skills, we also incorporate research from engineering education andeducation research more broadly. Specifically, we sought to build on research showing thatdiverse teams tend to be more creative; this strengths-based view of diversity aligned to ourparticular context and our efforts—as part of an NSF REvolutionizing engineering and computerscience Departments (RED) project—to better support diverse student success. We thereforeconjectured that providing students with an opportunity to reflect on their own and
Paper ID #28116Board 8: Engineering Management Division: Implementing Lean Practicesin an Academic Department: A Case StudyProf. Byron G. Garry, South Dakota State University BYRON GARRY is Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Coordinator in the Department of Construction & Operations Management in the Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering at South Dakota State University. He has been a member of ASEE since 1998. As SDSU ASEE Campus Rep., his goal is to help fellow College of Engineering faculty to be reflective teachers. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019
. Insights from students and faculty ofwinning teams are highlighted. Statistics are used to analyze trends. The trends in the winningteam proposals may reflect the level of importance of sustainability in industry and may supportthe need for explicitly including sustainability in courses in engineering and technology. Thelevel and type of sustainability analyses may inform future competition teams and may be usedby instructors as a tangible way to include sustainability in their engineering and technologycourses.SustainabilitySustainability is a term that has more than one meaning. According to the US EnvironmentalProtection Agency [1], sustainability is based on the principle that “Everything that we need forour survival and well-being depends
. Krajcik, and R. Marx, Using backward design to create standards-based middle-school inquiry-oriented chemistry curriculum and assessment materials. Philadelphia, PA: National Association for Research in Science Teaching, 2003.[6] A. P. Samaras, Self-study Teacher Research: Improving your Practice through Collaborative Inquiry. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2011.[7] A. Childre, J. R. Sands, and S. T. Pope, “Backward Design: Targeting Depth of Understanding for All Learners,” Teaching Exceptional Children, vol. 41, issue 5, pp. 6-14, 2009.[8] K. DiRanna, E. Osmundson, J. Topps, L. Barakos, M. Gearhart, K. Cerwin, D. Carnahan, and C. Strang, Assessment-Centered Teaching: A Reflective Practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin, 2008.[9] W
were pregnant. We show how students' conceptualization of differentstakeholders was relational, in that the ways in which pregnant women were conceptualized wasentangled with how Target was conceptualized. We also argue that the way students constructvarious stakeholders over three focus group sessions constrained how they were able tounderstand any of the stakeholders as causing harm or being harmed.Introduction Engineering ethics educators have developed a wealth of curricula that engagesengineering students in learning about codes of ethics and micro-ethical issues. However, muchof these curricula does not engage how technology's design and implementation is reflective ofsociopolitical systems and never value-neutral or how ethical
thefabrication lab the following year (spring semester 2018). Overall, the reflection essays anddesign project established the grade for the hands-on component.Figure 5: The winning lab design project was a Christmas Tree consisting of a milled aluminum“tree” (1), turned aluminum “trunk} (2), and a welded steel “tree stand” (3). The trunk wasthreaded (4) and the tree was assembled in during the fourth fabrication lab.2. Lecture Component:For processes not covered in the THORS course, content was delivered during regularlyscheduled lectures. However, these course meetings were updated to improve studentengagement and motivation. Williams and Williams recommend integrating online media intothe delivery of course content to improve student engagement [7
becoming an effective professor. These categoriesare broad and it is apparent that the assessment of performance is unavoidably subjective. Eachindividual brings a unique perspective to a classroom experience, which influences theirperception of the communication skills, organization, and caring spirit of the professor. Whilethe proposed rubric does not eliminate the subjectivity of a professor’s teaching performance, itdoes provide a tool for young professors to reflect on performance and identify focus areas thatare shown to improve teaching.Final Credits – AcknowledgementsThe inspiration for this collaboration began at one of the staple experiences for young andaspiring civil engineering professors. The ASCE ExCEEd Teaching Workshop, or
studies may have lesspatience towards changes in instructional methods and may find initial attempts at incorporatingactive learning disorganized [12]. This frustration with perceived disorganization was alsoreflected in the survey comments from older students, including that of the 20-year old studentquoted above. They were more likely to find the active learning sessions, especially those whichdid not include problem-solving exercises, as “busy work” and unnecessary for their success inthe class and may reflect differences in motivational factors and preferred learning environmentsnoted by some researchers [32], [33]. The differences in gender are more puzzling and arecontrary to what has been reported in studies of active learning
can be grown and improvedthrough the learning process; thus, they interpret failure as a need to exert additional effort oradopt different strategies. Those with an entity or fixed mindset believe that intelligence isunchangeable and are more likely to believe that poor performance is a result of a result oflacking intelligence [37].Stamm [38] shares that creating a climate in which this learner-centered model of highereducation is realized is not easy. The learner-centered classroom requires learner motivatedteaching is a paradigm shift from the traditional university practices. Strategies foraccomplishing this goal emphasize active and reflective learning trough project based learning,helping student make connections to see the relevancy of
naturalisticgeneralizations using the Benefits of Being a Mentor conceptual framework (Creswell & Poth,2017; Stake, 1995). Thus, both inductive and deductive analyses were employed throughout thedata collection and analysis process, with coding in cycles and frequent reflection as described inthe following sections. Cycle 1: Initial read-through with attribute coding. Silverman (1993) assertedsuperior qualitative research must draw interpretations and remain consistent with the dataIMPACT MENTORING PROGRAM 12collected. Therefore, an initial read-through of the transcripts was independently conducted usingthe basic deductive concepts of thematic content analysis to develop attribute