States Air Force in service to our Nation” (p. 1). The skillsoutcomes identified by USAFA are listed in Appendix A. While the NSSE collected quantitative data, a series of cadet interviews and observationswere used to collect qualitative data that reflected the engagement level and motivators ofengagement toward the same outcomes already listed. These data were of primary importance tothe last two research questions. To assess both the impact of the college environment and togauge the level of interaction between environment and student as represented in the ABinteraction of Figure 1, data were collected via observation of cadets operating in their uniquemilitary college environment among the various areas USAFA emphasizes: academic
each question.Each interview began with the interviewee being provided with an information and consent letterdescribing the purpose of the study and requesting his or her consent to the interview process.Once completed, the interviewee would complete a standardized, closed-form, 14-questionmultiple choice survey regarding a self-assessment of the student’s study skills. These surveyquestions were identical to those in Pierce8 and acted as a primer for the interviewee to beginreflecting on his or her own personal study habits. The results of the survey are outside of thescope of this report and will be published with a full comparison to Pierce’s work at a later date.Participants were then asked a series of 38 standardized questions divided
diversegroup of engineers recognizing and respecting human uniqueness and variability, adaptation, andcodesigning with underrepresented groups [27]. However, this poses a contemporary challengeas fostering more inclusive design practices for the future requires the engineering workforce (orthose involved in design) to operate within inclusive spaces and reflect diverse individuals.Inclusive design aims to tackle the social issue of creating environments that accommodate thepeople of diverse capabilities [28]. To achieve this goal, it is crucial to involve a diverse andunderrepresented individuals in the design processes to comprehensively assess what works andfor whom [27], [28]. The U.S. Green Building council even outlines practices for
and those that occur in curriculummaterials and classroom activities.It appears for our purposes, that essentialist, romantic and family resemblance views ofmathematical concepts are insufficient for framing the study of Western science classroomswhere authoritative voices from the course curriculum and the instructor assume the existence of Page 22.1070.9invariant properties tied to specific concepts, and these concepts must be learned and appliedduring high-stakes assessments to satisfy state and national standards. There may be powerfularguments why these invariant relations do not really exist, or do not hold in general. But thereseems to
the opportunity to link the activeprocess of conducting research and writing to sound, scientific content in the form of aconference paper. This activity also provided the instructors with an additional assessment tooloutside of the limits of more traditional assessment measures.The underlying premise is that all students, no matter what their gender, cultural, or demographicbackgrounds, can learn! In a recent report on its review of undergraduate education, theAdvisory Committee to the National Science Foundation's Directorate for Education and HumanResources concluded that “… while K – 12 programming can expand the pool of those interestedin pursing careers in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, & Technology, it is at theundergraduate
. González, et al noted that they attempted to “represent households in a way that isrespectful to issues of voice, representation, and authenticity” [4, p. X]. We followed that lead inreceiving and studiously responding to the nuances of markers that participants in our researchstudy shared with us, as they assessed our trustworthiness. With our focus on stewardship, werespectfully received the stories they chose to share with us, recognizing that they contributedvaluable knowledge with each story they shared.Use of markers in qualitative analysisRobert S. Weiss defined a marker, in the context of qualitative interview studies, as “a passingreference made by a respondent to an important event or feeling state.” [2] In an example, hestated that
as they would have hoped… Interviewer: How do people find out that they’re kind of mandatory? Isabel: They find out when they don’t get promoted. They find out, like, too late, I think.Isabel’s comments on the mis-construction of stretches as optional and non-essential calls for asecond look at words of another interviewee, Olivia, who indicated that stretches are moreimportant later on in one’s career (not in the early stages), and at a large organization (not thesmaller organization she currently works for). Olivia did not appear to feel that much work wasmake-or-break for her now—things at her organization were collaborative, generously assessed,and straightforward. However, even Olivia’s assessment might not be so simple—we
, Technology,Education, and Mathematics (STEM) fields [27], despite the rise in its post-secondary enrollmentnumbers [28], [29]. Those who leave CS programs are more likely to be women than men [30],[31], [32]. Further, the culture of CS and systemic barriers in CS compromise the persistence ofBlack students [33]. While studies suggest that students’ demographics, academic experiences,self-assessment of abilities, as well as institutional factors impact persistence, the research on thepersistence of underrepresented students in CS remains limited [32]. We strive to add to the1 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/teals2 https://research.google/outreach/csrmp/3 https://www.metacareers.com/careerprograms/pathways/metauniversityliterature on persistence in
) Introduction Despite significant efforts nationally to diversify STEM fields, underrepresented minority(URM) youth are less likely to pursue and persist in STEM subjects in high school, college, andcareers than White and Asian peers [4], [5]. For URM youth in U.S. high schools, mathperformance—specifically in algebra—is a significant barrier to success. In Baltimore CityPublic Schools (City Schools), a majority African American and low-income district [6], algebraproficiency in high school lags, impacting on-time graduation, access to higher level math andscience courses, and success in college courses [7]. In 2023, only 6.5% of students were deemedproficient on the algebra state assessment [8]. In close partnership with City
reflects content studied in an engineering mechanics statics course. Staticsis one of (if not the first) engineering courses students experience across all engineering majors.Statics is also perceived by many undergraduate students as a “weed out” course (Budhu, 2002),that is used by many institutions to restrict enrollment of unqualified engineering students intospecific engineering majors. Careful design and assessment of resources and tools for courses likethese are important in facilitating successful completion of the course for diverse populations ofengineering students. Hence, this work seeks to initiate steps towards learning how the design andmethod of serious game incorporation into an engineering mechanics statics course may result
of those were EiE units, andfour were of the comparison curriculum. Each of the four comparison units was similar to eachof the EiE units with regard to the engineering field of focus for the unit. The four EiE assignedunits are listed and described in Table 1. There are common features across all of the EiE units for the E4 Project. Each unit has anassociated teacher guide and student workbook. The teacher guides are extensive –approximately 150 pages in length – and include objectives, connections to science content,materials lists, assessments, and lesson plans written in detail. The student workbook contains allstudent worksheets and reflective journal pages that students use throughout the unit
werereached and there was not overgeneralization. After a list of codes was developed, the interviewswere all recoded according to the protocol codes.In order to assess pedagogical practices in the classroom, various statics and sophomore levelengineering courses were observed. This allowed a variety of course sessions to be observed anda more complete picture of the class to be formed. The courses were observed for pedagogicalpractice with the Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP), developed in 2010 byArizona State University and the National Science Foundation. The discourse was analyzedaccording to Gee’s discourse analysis protocol [28].TrustworthinessTo maintain trustworthiness of the process, inter-coder reliability was measured and
, particularly among thosestudents who may struggle to identify as engineers.Engineering education scholars have recognized the hidden curriculum as foundational toengineering students’ overall learning as well as the development of their professional identities[2][4]. Compared to the explicit curriculum, the hidden curriculum is unintentional, unplanned,and less “controllable”: seemingly irrelevant to formalized learning outcomes. Its hiddennessmakes it difficult to assess—or even anticipate—how it impacts students’ development and evenmore difficult to align with desired learning outcomes. Nevertheless, as engineering educationscholars have shown, the hidden curriculum consistently places performance or “learning”expectations upon students the same as
recommendations expressed in this material do not necessarily reflect those of the NSF. Wewant to give a special thanks to the institutional liaisons, Dr. Hector Cruzado, Dr. Sindia Rivera-Jimenez, Dr. Heather Shipley, Dr. Kimberly Cook-Chennault, and Dr. Paul Barr who assisted uswith collecting participant data in the first stage of sampling. We also want to thank theparticipants for sharing their experiences with us and the readers of this work.References 1. I. Villanueva, M. Di Stefano, L. Gelles, K. Youmans, and A. Hunt. “Development and assessment of a vignette survey instrument to identify responses due to hidden curriculum among engineering students and faculty,” IJEE, vol. 36, num. 5, pp.1-21, 2020. 2. R. J. Downey, and I
approach,survey data was collected to assess students' sense of belonging as engineering students. Thevalidated survey consists of 33 items distributed in four constructs: 1) Sense of belonging-general, 2) sense of belonging-interactions, 3) Self-efficacy and 4) Perceived institutionalsupport. From this, we identify and discuss the student's sense of belonging and how itinteracts with self-efficacy and perceived institutional support. This research allows us to haveevidence that supports the visibility and creation of initiatives on the services offered tostudents, which impact their sense of belonging.Keywords: sense of belonging; self-efficacy; gender studies; women in engineeringI. Introduction and theoretical frameworkThe sense of belonging is
Manufacturing’. Thisapproach involves directly importing product designs and parts from industry, letting studentsperform standardized quality assessment procedures on them, and finally reporting back toindustry advisors for feedback. This practice helped students gain transferable skills andknowledge of industrial standards for future professional careers. The importance of standards in engineering education was also highlighted by Khan andKarim [16] where they mentioned several organizations that develop and implement codes andstandards including ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), ASTM (AmericanSociety for Testing and Materials), IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), andANSI (American National Standards
developing a new HyFlex course few points needs to considersuch as design process, technology requirement, pedagogical strategy, assessment procedure,implementation and readiness of the students [6]. Well-designed HyFlex courses are ones in whichall students have relationships with each other as well as with instructor. HyFlex course is apromising model for enhancing student engagement in the different level of education as well asdifferent class sizes [7]. Physical space limitations and increasing student enrollment forced theeducational institution to think and develop alternative learning platforms. HyFlex course designis one of the possible alternative delivery methods to balance the student’s requirement withutilizing limited space and
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majorityof researchers. My research seeks to shift the mindset that frames engineering student successmainly within the boundaries of academic performance measures. Measuring students’ self-determination and motivation levels by gauging perceived autonomy, competence, and relatednesswithin their programs, one can more accurately assess whether engineering students are achievingholistic student success. By utilizing a baseline survey and exit interviews for freshmen SummerBridge Program (SBP) participants and interviewing past SBP participants, this research isgathering more in-depth information on students’ experiences.Preliminary results from SBP freshmen interviews indicated that key program componentsaffecting students’ experiences and success
alternative degree pathways.Limitations and Future WorkThis paper used one specific database for the preliminary literature search which was limited toonly conference proceedings. Some of the keywords and selected eligibility criteria may haveexcluded some papers that could potentially aid in answering the research questions. Future workwill expand the literature search to other databases to include journal publications for a morethorough analysis of the literature. Furthermore, this paper only assessed FTIC students at oneMSI. While this MSI might not be representative of all FTIC student populations, it is one of thelargest MSIs in the U.S. and thus a representative of the historically marginalized population ofSTEM and engineering programs. The
project can be viewed as a case-studyto qualitatively evaluate an experiential learning framework whose implementation and adoptioncan lead to the development of practical student research and engineering design skills and thussupporting our objective of improving the alignment and increasing the diversity of workforce inthe aerospace industry.The paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we present the team set up and mentoring approachdevice to achieve the learning outcomes. Section 3 describes the different design innovationscreated by the students. Section 4 presents a qualitative assessment of students’ perception of theefficacy of the program performed by an independent evaluator. Finally, in Section 5, we concludeand present future
Conferenceengineering school. Others incorporate STS material into traditional engineering courses, e.g., bymaking ethical or societal impact assessments part of a capstone project.”2 While theinterdisciplinary nature of STS makes it difficult to define, the foundational concepts draw onrelated fields such as philosophy, sociology, anthropology, history, cultural studies, and feministstudies. Bringing this interdisciplinary approach to educating engineering students allows themto approach their profession in ways that enhance their problem-solving skills and professionalcommunication skills. Given these benefits, the problem engineering programs face is how tointegrate these skills within the curriculum as opposed to outsourcing these course offerings toother
other work. This initiativeserved as a point of collaboration for environmentalists and workers to reduce toxic exposures toworkers and the greater public. (Lax, 2018). Another collaborative effort was the ‘Campaign fora Just Transition,’ where union leaders are working to transition industries away from usingdangerous chemicals (Stone and Cole, 2000).Biologist and environmentalist Joe Thornton goes so far as to say that Americans embrace a riskparadigm when it comes to manufacturing goods and releasing pollution into the environment.This is a paradigm in which hazards are viewed as “locally bounded, short-term, probabilisticevents,” and in which probabilistic risk assessment is a “primary scientific and policymakingtool” (2000, p. 318). This
that charged whenever anyone approached.Angered by veterinarians’ assessment that his animals were dying due to bad husbandry [8],Tennant began collecting evidence—photos and videos of suffering live animals and those thathe dissected, which revealed an assortment of tumors, some glowing green, and blackened teeth[9], in addition to purple spots on their lungs, yellow fluid encasing their hearts, and damage tothe gallbladder, spleen, and kidneys [10]. The animals had “stringy tails, malformed hooves,giant lesions protruding from their hides and red, receded eyes; cows suffering constant diarrhea,slobbering white slime the consistency of toothpaste, staggering bowlegged like drunks” [6].Within two years, most of the Tennant herd died, along
understanding the factors influencing student success in engineering. Thebarriers to engineering student success can occur in many aspects of engineering education suchas curriculum design, campus environment, assessment and feedback, and self-perception [7].For underrepresented students, these barriers to success are well-documented and often fall underthe umbrella of sense of belonging or engineering identity. Sense of belonging is defined byStrayhorn as “students’ perceived social support on campus, a feeling or sensation ofconnectedness, and the experience of mattering or feeling cared about, accepted, respected,valued by, and important to the campus community or others on campus such as faculty, staff,and peers” [8]. For underrepresented engineers
, whichinfluences all aspects of our daily life. Thus, students’ academic success is correlated andsignificantly impacted by their mental health and general well-being. To this end, fosteringawareness about our students’ mental health, understanding inclusion, diversity, and equity, andenhancing students’ well-being is of utmost importance to the academic community. This studyaims to address and prioritize minority students’ mental health and well-being by identifying thefactors contributing to their anxiety and stress as well as proposing strategies to enhance theirmental wellness and overall well-being. To achieve these objectives, the research study (a)gathered and assessed data from a minority-serving institution’s (MSI) Counseling andPsychological
theoretical research to the field, but work to bridge the theory-to-practice gap in engineering education by serving as an ambassador for empirically driven educational practices.Dr. Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University Dr. Adam Carberry is an associate professor at Arizona State University in the Fulton Schools of Engi- neering, The Polytechnic School. He earned a B.S. in Materials Science Engineering from Alfred Univer- sity, and received his M.S. and Ph.D., both from Tufts University, in Chemistry and Engineering Education respectively. His research investigates the development of new classroom innovations, assessment tech- niques, and identifying new ways to empirically understand how engineering students and
classes, which consist of two face to face and two online, were used asthe platform for this study. In the face to face class, students were required to record the amountof time spent outside of the classroom studying, reviewing what was taught in class, andcompleting homework/assignment. For the online, students recorded the overall time devoted tothe course online on a daily basis. The study was conducted in summer 2022 for the onlineclasses and in fall 2022 for the face to face class. At the beginning of these classes, survey forstudy time was created for students to complete the amount of time they devoted each day to theclass. Students performance outcome on examinations was assessed to see if there is correlationto their efforts and other