available to them showed that most chose towatch the videos not because of incentives but because they felt they needed the content. In spiteof now teaching the same class in essentially the same format for several years, the instructorscontinue to use the feedback to change some elements of the course, continually seeking ways toimprove the student experience and learning. For the instructors, this very simple assessmentmethod has and continues to provide valuable insight into large and small things they can do toimprove their course. Rather than wait for end-of-semester student evaluation feedback, when itis too late to make improvements, they have real-time feedback that gives them the opportunityto try out improvements, and try again if they
AC 2008-682: AN ASSESSMENT OF PROBLEM SOLVING PROCESSES INUNDERGRADUATE STATICSRoman Taraban, Texas Tech University Roman Taraban is Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Psychology at Texas Tech University, Assessment Coordinator for the Texas Tech University Howard Hughes Medical Institute (TTU/HHMI) Biological Sciences Education Program, Member of the Texas Tech Teaching Academy Executive Council, past President of the Society for Computers in Psychology (SCiP), and Associate Editor for the Journal of Educational Psychology. He received his Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Carnegie Mellon University. His interests are in how undergraduate students learn, and especially, how they
assessments. The COVID-19 pandemic also introduced variation aboveand beyond normal course offerings that would further dilute meaningful interpretations of directcomparisons. Instead, the research design incorporated both quantitative and qualitative methodsguided by the following two research questions: 1. How did instructional changes impact student performance and student attitudes toward programming? 2. To what extent were student attitudes toward programming related to student performance? B. Research ContextThis study was conducted on a required first year programming course in the mechanicalengineering and bioengineering program at a small midwestern private university across twoacademic years. The course included 43
Paper ID #25284Board 110: Defining and Assessing Systems Thinking in Diverse EngineeringPopulationsMs. Erika Mosyjowski, University of Michigan Erika Mosyjowski is a PhD student in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan. She also earned a Master’s in Higher Education at Michigan and a Bachelor’s in Psychology and Sociology from Case Western Reserve University. Before pursuing a PhD, Erika had a dual appointment in UM’s College of Engineering working in student affairs and as a research associate. While grounded in the field of higher education, her research interests
learning. This is not at all surprising when one takes into accountthat business and industry must invest enormous amounts of money in in-service training andretraining of personnel. From that prospective, acquiring of transferable knowledge and skills byworkers, employers, and managers is seen as an important component of a “Learning Economy”resulting in a reduction of spending.”In today’s fast changing world, companies spend large amounts of money on staff training anddevelopment. To reduce costs and training time, employers are increasingly interested inimproving the way employees apply their acquired knowledge and skills to new settings orsituations. The current paper describes an assessment method that can be used to measure thistransfer of
assessment instruments and the ways thatthey are used to motivate student engagement with the TBL process have evolved over thecourse of the four semesters, due in large part to the results of student course evaluation surveysthat are conducted at the end of each course each semester.Achievement of the first six ILOs is assessed using written formative and summative exams, asexplained above in conjunction with the second change made to the basic TBL process.However, as also mentioned, that scheme creates two related practical difficulties. The first oneis that many students will not take formative exams seriously or prepare well for them when thescores from the tests do not contribute numerically toward the final course grade. Impendingtests (for
Page 7.443.11 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2002, American Society for Engineering Education ”for discussion early in the spring quarter.The second senior assessment tool is the Graduating Senior Exit Interview. This interview is conductedby the Mechanical Engineering Program Chair during each graduating senior’s final quarter. Severalformats for the interview have been tried in past years. Experience has shown that students are mostresponsive when interviewed in pairs or in small groups up to four. The interviews are not completelyscripted, but a general outline is used for each interview. Rather than seeking summative evaluations
− 𝒑𝒓𝒆/ 𝒔𝒕𝒅𝒆𝒗) is noted as small, medium, and large; bold font indicates a mediumeffect (.5), and italicized font indicates small effect (.2). Statistically significant results are shaded based onassociated p-values ( <0.05).What are the similarities and differences between Kuwaiti and US student performanceswhen they are taught STEM (MMC)?Analysis of study results confirmed that the replication of the MMC program between theUnited States and Kuwait produced a similar trend and gains for CT concepts and programknowledge (Table 5). A comparison of scores showed that USA demonstrated moresignificant effect sizes in ABS, PAR, and CON, but KW showed higher gains in TAD skills.Results of the remaining CT skills were ambiguous. As shown in the
claim in this study thedecision is based on interest may point towards the need for pre-college interventions to linkvarious engineering disciplines with human-centered needs/outcomes. We also found media had a limited impact on participants overall. However, thoseparticipants influenced by media largely found portrayals of engineers and innovations asinspirational. Although media only influenced a small number of participants in the currentstudy, it is possible increasing positive, real-world portrayals of engineers could stimulateinterest, which then becomes the driving force in deciding upon a major. Similar to Beggs [41]study on how students choose college majors in general, where she found low importance givento information seeking
research literature, and a pilot test instrument that wasdeveloped to measure a small set of engineering concepts10. In addition, this design problem issituated within the context of a National Science Foundation Discovery Research K-12 fundedproject that aims to research the viability of a concept-driven approach to teacher professionaldevelopment 1. Research is being conducted to understand how science teachers learnengineering concepts and the issues and problems encountered during implementation. However,in order to determine the effectiveness of such an approach, a valid, reliable assessment ofengineering concepts is needed. While there are several post-secondary engineering educationassessments i.e., 11, 12, 13 and some K-12 engineering
. In this capacity, he is responsible for all activities related to student services (academic administration, advising, career planning, women and diversity programs, etc.) and curricular issues. He is principal investigator on several NSF grants related to retention of engineering students. As a faculty member in civil engineering, he co-teaches a large introductory course in civil engineering. His research and consulting activities have focused on the safety and reliability of hydraulic structures, and he has participated as an expert in three different capacities regarding reviews of levee performance in Hurricane Katrina. He is a three-time recipient of his college’s Withrow Award for Teaching
17-inch Dellmonitors, but in the end our frugality allowed the purchase of new monitors. The monitor ofchoice was the Dell 24-inch LCD for $329 each. This Mac Mini and single large monitorreplaced our prior configuration of two 17-inch LCD monitors connected to a single Dellworkstation.Software Development ToolsIn addition to the Mac OS software, the students need access to the iOS developer tools – namelythe Xcode IDE, Interface Builder, the iOS class libraries, and the Objective-C programminglanguage, which are all freely available. Instructors and students also need to register with theApple developer program, which is easy because Apple offers a free Developer UniversityProgram.3 This special category of developer program is free to
complete.The DesignDesigning a house with such a small area footprint and so many constraints is not an easy taskfor a professional. The Tuskegee project was designed byand largely built by architecture and construction scienceundergraduate students. The typical student has verylittle working knowledge of materials, the best and mosteffective ways to use those materials, or, of the buildingprocess. The typical architecture, construction, andengineering programs focus on theory not application—the hands on application of this competition opened a“new world of opportunities” in learning.The design constraints began with a very small housethat had to provide all typical amenities for living as astandard house, plus the additional stipulation that
electromechanical principles through studying the mechanics and electronic controlof these components. They discuss the nature of the product, the design principles andconstraints used, the material selection, and the manufacturing processes. The IME-100 courseincludes IME laboratories where freshman students learn to perform basic manufacturingprocesses. These processes provide them the skills necessary to manufacture a RoboBug. TheIME-100 course also has an ECE laboratory component where freshmen students build a circuitto be placed on a small robot. The robot is then used in the course to demonstrate systemintegration and simple programming in an effort to coordinate a walking motion
, thenregenerate the formatted document to verify that the correct edit was performed. Likewise,modifying the source code in Figure 2c requires a similarly laborious process. Minor textualedits become major chores. Finally, traditional development tools such as debuggers andprofilers are extremely difficult to deploy for WEB documents and their associated programs.Figure 2: Knuth's WEB system for LP transforms the input source document in (a) to theformatted output in (b) and the source code in (c) as illustrated by the large arrows.[5]Later LP implementations addressed the first problem in Knuth’s approach: weaknesses inlanguage support and formatting. Some variants support additional programming languages:CWEB (for C), FWEB (Fortran, C, and C++), xmLP
. Figure 2. Frequency Analysis on the POD Framework. Within POD, assessment items were most often from Background, in which studentswere primarily tested about solution materials, background information for the solution, or both.Plan was the second most commonly assessed step, with providing information about the planand communicating ideas being the strongest focus of these items. The third step with a largenumber of assessment items was Evaluate, with students making design decisions, brainstormingchanges for redesign, supplying evidence for these choices, and deciding if the design metcriteria and constraints. Test, Problem, and Communicate all contained a small proportion ofitems. Finally, 12 items assessed the Implement step
possibilities, we use peer success teams. These teams consist of four or fiveparticipants and are diverse by participant degree, discipline, gender, and Bolton and BoltonWork Style. Participants provide feedback on their peers’ resumes and cover letters, andparticipate in a group informational interview and job interview. With these teams, our aim is tocreate personal and career support networks. The post-evaluations showed that participants leftthe program with increased confidence in building working relationships with others (Table 2).Table 2. Student Development during the OPTIONS ProgramParticipants complete a pre- and post-evaluation where they assess the change in confidence in their skills fortwenty-one indicators that align with the program’s
indicating why theywould like to participate in the program. Lastly, the applicant must commit to participating inthe program for the entire four weeks. Exceptions are rare but are accepted on a case-by-casebasis. The student must have written proof of the incident causing the lack of participation forthe entire four weeks.Each summer the program director accepts between 20 and 25 students. The enrollment is keptat this small number so there can be close interaction between the students and also betweenfaculty and program participants. Another reason enrollment is capped at 25 is because fieldtrips are an important part of the program and large numbers would make such off-campusactivities less manageable.Financial support from corporate sponsors and
questions we incorporated in the survey waswhether the students had read the required textbook from that professional society. Regarding theassessment delivery, the survey sought to find the answer for whether the students used arecommended mobile application containing practice questions. The assessment deliverycategory was not limited to the external mobile application for it also evaluated studentsregarding the difficulty level of the professional certification exam compared to their coursequizzes and exam materials.Separate from the external assessment, there was an active learning category, as much like PBLas could be achieve with consistently large classes. This category included physical, in-classsimulations such as drawing a simple fish
collaborating with a team or reflecting on his/her understandingof earlier related topics and back. Our goal is to develop precisely such an approach.Our approach is based on the concept of learning objects. The idea of learning objects, henceforthLOs, was introduced by Hodgins 20 in the early nineties. While different authors have assignedslightly different meaning to the term, the consensus definition is the one offered by Wiley 21 : “[t]hemain idea of learning objects is to break educational content into small chunks that can be reusedin various learning environments, in the spirit of object-oriented programming”; we will return tothe relation to object-oriented programming in Section 3. Saum 22 offers a historical perspectiveof LOs. One main focus
senior year [17]. In addition, the sample sizefor women and other underrepresented students within this LMU data is usually too small to bereported. The intent of this work is to support all mechanical engineering undergraduate studentsat LMU in the pursuit of their Bachelor’s degrees via the GAIN peer-mentoring program, withthe hope of also discovering more widely applicable insights that can extrapolated to battlesystemic STEM retention issues at other universities as well.The Spring 2020 in-person pilot of the GAIN peer-mentoring program was ended shortly after itbegan, due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the time of closure, the recruitment phasehad been completed and data from two initial surveys had been collected. The focus of
beliefs. We show how these measures can be usedto provide gamification-based rewards for target behaviors, such as time management choices,incremental development, and self-checking. Finally, we show how these elements can beembedded in an automated grading tool to provide a platform for embedding RPG-likeexperiences in assignment feedback. We apply these techniques to a historical data-set of studentactivities including 257 students to verify the feasibility and suitability of the design.Keywords: Assessment, RPGs, XPs, Levels, Traits(Characters), Growth Mindset,Engagement1 IntroductionFeedback information in automatic grading systems such as Web-CAT 9 usually aids studentswhen learning programming. Examples of such information include a score
, Computer Integrated Design & Manufacturing. The initial efforts in this areawere published by Higley3. Follow on work in Computer Graphics Technology (CGT) waspublished by Colwell, et. al 4. Since that time, we have collected considerable data from theseand other courses, including the relatively young CGT program. We have found outcomes basedassessment very useful for improving courses in some, but not all areas. The remainder of thispaper examines our experiences in two courses, MET 461 and CGT 351, Interactive MultimediaDesign. Page 13.746.2II. Pedagogical IssuesCourse Structures: MET 461 is a senior level course in a relatively small
provided to the instructor. Student surveyresponses and course outcomes were combined using their student ID number, which was thenremoved. Only students that completed all study components were included in the analysis.The beginning of the semester surveys included student demographic information, a self-assessment of engineering skills, and the GRIT-S questionnaire [17]. The end of semester surveyincluded the intrinsic motivation activity perception questionnaire for computer programming, arepeat of the engineering skills assessment, rating for how much students felt different aspects ofthe course benefited them and additional questions about their perceptions of the self-directedproject. To determine students’ feelings on the aspects of the
Technology, where she also created and taught a year-long, design-based engineering course for seniors. Forbes earned her PhD in civil engineering, with an engineering education research focus.Dr. Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder Angela Bielefeldt is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Civil, Envi- ronmental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE). She has served as the ABET assessment coordinator in the CEAE department since 2008. Professor Bielefeldt is the faculty director of the Sustainable By De- sign Residential Academic Program, a living-learning community where interdisciplinary students learn about and practice sustainability. Bielefeldt is also a licensed P.E
issues arise during the teaching of the course.First, in class, students are reluctant to listen to concepts that they have already learned inprerequisite courses. This happens even though the concepts are now addressed from the angleof the design issues instead of the angle of pure program writing. Second, students are notwilling to learn special features that exist in the programming languages that they are notfamiliar with. To resolve these issues, active learning is introduced into the OPL course. In thispaper, we will discuss in detail the implementations of the course and will give an assessment ofthe implementation.1. IntroductionActive learning is a process by which students must actively be involved in reading, writing,discussion and
American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 An Unusual Partnership: Transportation Engineering Outreach and Spanish Translation ProgramInstitute for Transportation and Spanish Program, Department of World Languages and Cultures Iowa State UniversityAbstractThere is a critical need to identify ways to reach future transportation professional early andincrease minority representation in the transportation workforce. This paper discusses¡Vamos!, afree Spanish e-zine designed to increase awareness among Hispanic teens and Spanish speakingyouths about careers and educational opportunities in transportation. ¡Vamos! is published by atransportation research institute at a large
small stipendfor WiSE-FPP Associates. The WiSE-FPP budget consists of allocations for professional andprogram staff, faculty allowance, associate stipends and of course event expenses. Facultyreceive a small allowance to help relieve the pressure created by service outside of their facultyresponsibilities. These funds can be designated for research, workstudy students, supplies forcommunity programs they run, etc. Event costs vary by type but can include travel for guestpresenters, printing, food & beverages and other logistical expenses. Stipends and event costscombined average about $10,000 per year. In addition to budgetary constraints, however, theWiSE-FPP focus on mentoring is most effective when WiSE faculty leaders and volunteers
Optional campus tour/departureTransportation to and from campus is arranged by the participants. Maps and parkingpermits are provided. Because the students actually bring sleeping bags and pillows andsleep on the floor in a large open space, the only cost to participants is $15 per personwhich helps defray the meal expenses. Table 2 provides an estimated budget for theprogram.OutcomesOvernight Visitation Programs have been held at the Speed School for incoming femalestudents since 2005. Eighty young women have participated and all of those studentssubsequently enrolled in the engineering school. Ten of the early participants havecompleted degrees from U of L (nine in engineering, one in business). All of theaforementioned engineering graduates are
. An Exploration of Novice Compilation Behaviour in BlueJ. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)thesis, 2006, University of Kent.[Kazerouni17] Kazerouni, A.M., S.H. Edwards, T.S. Hall, and C.A. Shaffer. DevEventTracker: Trackingdevelopment events to assess incremental development and procrastination. In ACM Conference on Innovationand Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE), 2017, pp. 104-109.[Li18] Li, Zhiyi, and Stephen Edwards. "Applying Recent-Performance Factors Analysis to Explore StudentEffort Invested in Programming Assignments." Proceedings of the International Conference on Frontiers inEducation: Computer Science and Computer Engineering (FECS). 2018.[Malan20] Malan, David J., Brian Yu, and Doug Lloyd. "Teaching academic honesty in