Conference Session

Technical Session 3 - Paper 3: International engineering students’ resistance to isolating university experiences: An opportunity for greater inclusion in engineering education

Collection

2022 CoNECD (Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity)

Authors

Memoria Matters, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Patrice Marie Buzzanell, University of South Florida; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

Tagged Topics

CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

, the first author carried out a theoretical thematic analysis as outlined by Braun &Clarke [10] using the software NVivo 12. During first-cycle coding, she coded interviewtranscripts for instances of “exclusion,” when students mentioned feeling unsupported or isolatedin any way within the program, and instances of “persistence,” when students mentionedstrategies they used to continue the program despite the exclusionary aspects of the environment.During second-cycle coding, she grouped these exclusion and persistence codes into largerthemes by creating a thematic map using NVivo’s concept map tools. Following Braun &Clarke’s steps for thematic analysis, she grouped together related codes and named the groups asthemes. Some of these