Florida Comprehensive Aptitude, http://www.fldoe.org/accountability/assessments/k-12-student-assessment/results/2014.stml , Test (FCAT) a quick review is provided.Table 3: 2015 FCAT Science 2.0 Test Results82% of DLJ 5th graders scored at Level 3 or above.46% of DLJ 5th graders scored at Level 5. (This ranks D.L. Jamerson as thetop elementary school in the school district and in the top 5% in the State)The percentage of African-American students achieving level 3 or higherincreased from less than 5% in 2008 to over 65% in 2015.The FCAT is a set of Statewide tests in language arts, mathematics, and scienceconducted at the same times of year but administered at different grade levels. Table 2provides the 2015 Science FCAT score results. The use of
Paper ID #16917Understanding How a Culture of Collaboration Develops Among STEM Fac-ultyDr. Kelly J. Cross, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dr. Cross completed her doctoral program in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech in 2015 and is currently working as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is involved with multiple educational research projects with faculty and graduate students at UIUC. Her research interests include diversity and inclusion, teamwork skills, assessment, and identity construction.Dr. Natasha Aniceto Mamaril, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
. Pintrich, P. R. A Motivational Science Perspective on the Role of Student Motivation in Learning and Teaching Contexts. J. Educ. Psychol. 95, 667–686 (2003).18. Hagemeier, N. E. & Murawski, M. M. An instrument to assess subjective task value beliefs regarding the decision to pursue postgraduate training. Am. J. Pharm. Educ. 78, (2014).19. Artino, A. R. & McCoach, D. B. Development and Initial Validation of the Online Learning Value and Self- Efficacy Scale. J. Educ. Comput. Res. 38, 279–303 (2008).20. Garcia, T. & Pintrich, P. R. Assessing students’ motivation and learning strategies in the classroom context: The Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire. Altern. Assess. Achiev. Learn. Process. prior
grading assessments also included MATLAB specific problemsto keep students motivated in their learning. In projects toward end of the course, studentsdemonstrated their grasp of programming constructs and also creativity in visual graphics.Part II of the paper provides a summary of this programming course objectives and the content; PartIII lists the specific project assignments done in C and MATLAB over several years; Part IV pondersupon the results of surveys answered by students in this and upper level follow-on courses todetermine the added value of MATLAB as a learning tool; and Part V states concluding remarks.Part II: course content and objectivesThe objective of the course and the assignments were to provide students with a skill set so
. In particular, the level of abstraction will be significantly less than typically found in Calculus I.Thematically the revised Calculus I class is focused on three outcomes: - Develop geometric and physical intuition for derivatives and integrals. - Master the standard rules for symbolic computation of derivatives and some basic integrals. - Apply both intuitive understanding and rules mastery to solve problems.The course design has the following pedagogical features: - Many short homework assignments with immediate computer driven feedback/assessment, typically due on a two-day cycle. - Each assignment designed along learning cycle principles to target one or two specific learning goals
, this paper aims to address attitudes towards teamwork that willinfluence the ability to succeed in a professional setting. These attitudes focus on previous teamexperience, team experience in the course, leadership of other team members, enjoyment ofteamwork, the importance of teamwork to the engineering profession, methods for collaboration,and equal contributions from team members.1,3,8,12 These concepts, related to engineering, wereincorporated into a survey used for this paper to determine attitudes of students in a first-yearengineering design course.Common methods of assessment for engineering education team experience include open-endedsurvey questions with text analytics and Likert scale survey questions.3,8 The CARE model andthe
obtained from autodesk.com for demonstration)AssessmentThe proposed framework has only been partially implemented in the author’s CM program, andas a result an assessment of the complete framework is not yet applicable. Student evaluation isavailable in five courses that have implemented BIM components based on the framework, andthe results from CM 33x Building Construction Methods and Systems are briefly discussed as anexample. The course was offered by the same instructor using the same materials during twoconsecutive semesters. Instruction was entirely based on the textbook in the first semester andwas incorporated with BIM contents in the second semester. A BIM model was first used toexplain how different building
55% 81% Interest in a career in engineering 38% 75% Interested in a career in mathematics 48% 63% Interested in a career in design 62% 94% Table 6: Initial assessment results of technology use and creativity MSU Pre-survey Post-survey 3D printer usage 21% 75% Mobile app development 0% 88% Imagine creating new products 59% 75% Table 7: Initial assessment results of
Engineering & Me- chanics department, serving as a professional academic advisor to over 550 students. In January 2012, she became the Program Manager for Assessment & Retention for the College of Engineering, coordinating accreditation efforts for 12 ABET-accredited undergraduate programs and an ACCE accredited program. She created the Academic Center for Engineers (ACE) in the Spring of 2013 to provide tutoring support for engineering courses. She was promoted to Associate Director for Assessment & Retention Projects in July 2015. Kristin has completed Drexel’s Supervisory Certificate Program and ABET’s IDEAL Scholar program and is currently working toward completion of an M.S. in Human Resource Development
involvement4, Sedlacek’s non-cognitive assessment model of students ofcolor5, social integration6 and various identity frameworks7, 8, 5. The review of this literatureprovides context for this study on the influence of NSBE membership on student persistence. Ithas long been argued that students’ social integration into a university is a predictor of theirsuccess at a university2, 9. Such integration is largely dependent on students’ involvement withinthe institution itself. While academic preparation and success are important and can be strongindicators of persistence, non-cognitive aspects of a student’s collegiate experience can outweighthese factors10. Tinto’s 2 theory of student departure anchored in social integration, defined astudent’s personal
SPL focus was added to the class.The authors also noticed a clear differentiation in the learning outcomes and ability to applytheoretical concepts to the project once the SPL concepts were emphasized in the course. Studentsnot only answered the basic questions about maintainability and testing, but they were able toapply the concepts more concretely in open-ended questions on quizzes and exams. This led to anoticeable improvement in grades on these specific assessments over the span of the case study.7. ConclusionsIn this work we presented the development and re-deployment over multiple years of an SPL fortransit systems software in a classroom environment. We also presented our adapted Scrum modelthat incorporates changes to the Scrum model
a few times and received a very positive feedback from students. A morecomprehensive assessment approach is planned for the near future.I. Introduction Learning styles of many students are reshaping [1], [2]. Due to the increase in preference forvisual media, and the fast growing use of information technology, instructors may notice that it isharder for students to understand difficult concepts when using traditional textbook-basedexplanations. Such a case is noted by Tyler DeWitt, a chemistry high school teacher and Ph.D.student at MIT [3]. He noticed that his students missed key concepts although they wereattending well planned lectures and completing assignments. To remedy this, he engagedstudents with a different style of teaching
Paper ID #18668A Methodology to Model the Integrated Nature of the Sustainable Develop-ment Goals: Importance for Engineering EducationMr. David Zelinka, University of Colorado, Boulder David Zelinka was part of the first official graduating class from Purdue University’s Environmental and Ecological Engineering Program. In his final year, he passed his FE exam focusing in environmental engineering. Following, he completed his MS in Civil Engineering at the University of Colorado Denver in the Environmental and Sustainability Engineering program with his thesis focusing on an environmental impact assessment of the
NoClassroomBellsCampus Yes No Yes Yes Yes YesNoise MapTable 1: Proposed Project/Need Matrix. Various projects were evaluated according to whetherthey satisfied our stated project goals. Note that the assessment of whether we would need IRBapproval or not was tentative and was confirmed by the relevant department once the final projectwas selected. The only proposed project which met all goals was the exercise machines project,which proposed placing devices on exercise machines in the campus recreation center.The selected project involved placing Shimmer3 IMU sensors, which include a gyroscope, ontreadmills. We verified that as long as sensors were placed on equipment in the SRC (rather thanstudents) the
. Congress Joint Economic Committee, 2012). It iscritical to provide high school students and the K-12 community of teachers and students withmultiple opportunities in STEM to learn about content, relevant courses and skills and careers.Additionally, technological literacy “is the ability to use, manage, assess, and understandtechnology” (Standards for Technological Literacy, p. 9) and further states that a technologicallyliterate person can understand a specific technology, its creation and evolution and the impact onsociety along with being capable of making an informed decision about the technology. Whilenot all students will pursue STEM fields, it is significant that students as future citizensunderstand engineering design and technologies
Paper ID #18748An Exploration of Female Engineering Students’ Functional Roles in theContext of First-year Engineering CoursesMiss Juebei Chen, Shanghai Jiaotong University Juebei Chen is a graduate student at the Graduate School of Education in Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She obtained a B.Admin in business administration from Minzu University. Her current interest focuses on the cognitive development of engineering graduate and undergraduate students, the assessment of teaching and learning in graduate education.Dr. Jiabin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Jiabin Zhu is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of
. Students from all 3 groups started in Calculus I during their first Fallterm, after participating in STEP. We compared academic outcomes (i.e. STEM grades andGPA) and progress towards major (number of math and physics courses completed) fortreatment and control groups. Self-efficacy surveys, focus groups and interviews with students,faculty and staff were conducted to assess the various components of the program by exploringits critical aspects through the lenses of all parties involved. Initial results of assessment showvery positive signs of improvement in terms of grades and progress-to-degree. In terms ofprogress-to-degree, 72% of the FYrE cohort completed 3 quarters of math in their first year. Bycomparison, 30% of CG2 and 27% of CG-3
10 Lab 11 Lab 12Obj. 1 x x x xObj. 2 x x x x x x xObj. 3 x x x x x x xObj. 4 x x x x x x xObj. 5 x xThe assessment of the learning objectives of each of the twelve experiments were conducted byboth students and the instructor. The students were required to provide a discussion on achievingthe learning objectives in the conclusion section of each of the twelve laboratory reports. Theresults were that
following research lines: conceptual understanding of students on subjects of physics, transfer of understanding between the different areas of knowledge, use of tech- nology in learning, impact of using innovative learning environments and development of assessment tools. He has 76 articles in refereed journals and conferences, over 450 citations according to the ISI Web of Science, 6 books, 13 book chapters, 139 national and international presentations in countries like Korea, Denmark, Hungary, Cuba, United States, Chile, Ecuador and Argentina and 29 international work- shops in Mexico, Chile, Argentina and Italy. Genaro Zavala was appointed to the editorial board of the Physical Review Special Topics-Physics Education
empowers students in the ways that it isintended to, and to propose restructuring the course for future offerings.IntroductionMost of the time spent in typical engineering classes is devoted to teaching discipline-specifictechnical skills, with less emphasis on the contexts in which engineering is practiced, and littlefocus on critical examinations of assumptions made during that engineering practice. This modelhas resulted in engineers who are proficient at solving problems within traditional areas ofpractice, but who may be ill prepared to assess the broader impact of their work, or to addressnew challenges outside of the fields discussed in their courses. With funding from a NationalScience Foundation (NSF) IUSE/PFE REvolutionizing engineering
becausethey had to focus on content that would be on state assessments, “This is not done in ourelementary school for time is spent on focusing on the skills the students will be tested on.”Some participants were frustrated with the amount of material to be covered and the lack of timeto do it in, “We already have too much on our plate. This would be one more thing…” Asanother teacher stated, “I don’t have time to find materials, produce lessons, and research how todo it all myself.” Guidance. Many participants said that they would be willing to teach engineering to theirstudents if they were given guidance on what was appropriate to teach at their grade level andhow to implement it, “I would need some ideas of engineering projects appropriate
). There were atotal of 7 female and 9 male participants (the least comprehensive category was comprised ofmales only) and each are described in Table 1.There were a total of 194 potential critical incidents. A second researcher reviewed theseincidents and applied the three criteria above to assess agreement. The two then met to discussthe incidents and decide upon appropriate critical incidents. The collaborative assessment refinedthe sample to 122 critical incidents and resulted in 10 distinct types of critical incidents, whichare used below to explore the suitability of the proposed model.Table 1. Participants Pseudonym Category Major Year Gender Engineering Design Project Experience Jerry 1 First-year
. His research interests include capstone design teaching and assessment, undergraduate engineering stu- dent leadership development, and social network analysis. He is also a licensed professional engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia.Prof. Tom Weis, Rhode Island School of DesignLt. Col. Harry Howard Jones IV c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Mechanical Engineering Design for Complex Environments: Incorporating Industrial Design Perspectives into a Multidisciplinary Capstone Design ProjectAbstract The rapid pace of global communications development coupled with an unprecedentedincrease in technological advancement has increased the need for
Paper ID #21165Perceived Importance of Leadership in their Future Careers Relative to OtherFoundational, Technical and Professional Skills among Senior Civil Engineer-ing StudentsDr. 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 had served as the ABET assessment coordinator for the department since 2008. Bielefeldt is also a licensed P.E. Professor Bielefeldt’s research interests in engineering education include service-learning, sustainable engineering
addressed workplace support. Thescales used were the work-family culture scale, perceived social support from supervisors andcoworkers scale, and perceived organizational support (POC) scale. The work-family culturescale measured the organization’s position towards prioritization of work over family andsupervisory support and sensitivity towards employees’ familial obligations. The perceivedsocial support from supervisors and coworkers scale assessed the perceived social support frommanagers and colleagues while the POC was evaluated the extent to which employees believedtheir company acknowledged their work and welfare.Women who remained in engineering varied in their experiences of content specific support–perceived support in which one believes
define terms associated with movement of the solids and liquids apply the concepts to “every day” liquids and solids Aerospace Egg Drop Physics, identify the basic principles of 4 Mathematics, dynamics in order to construct an egg Engineering drop apparatus. Design Process discuss the experimental results of their designs in order to assess
module.Another great use of video, and another way to promote faculty to student interactions and createa stronger sense of instructor presence in online STEM courses is to insert additional shortvideos focused on your computer screen, a document camera, or a tablet. Working problems ordrawing diagrams on a document camera or tablet, or using your computer screen to demonstratea process or how to use some particular software on upcoming assignments can really help yourstudents while keeping you more present in your online course. A summary of Hegeman’sfindings in “Using Instructor-Generated Video... in Online Mathematics Courses ImprovesStudent Learning” revealed that students “performed better on all summative assessments,earned a statistically
building confidence and a desire tocontinue with engineering?The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of single-sex female and co-ed engineeringcamps at the University of Dayton on female participants’ interest in engineering and their self-efficacy related to engineering.MethodIn an effort to assess the efficacy of both co-ed and single-sex female engineering summer campsat increasing the participants interest in and self-efficacy in engineering, both qualitative andquantitative data were collected from each type of engineering camp. Each camp took place overa period of six days and featured activities that allowed participants to explore variousengineering fields. It should be noted that the camp activities varied between the single
Paper ID #23607To Map or to Model: Evaluating Dynamism in Organically Evolving FacultyDevelopmentDr. Lori C. Bland, George Mason University Lori C. Bland, Ph.D. teaches courses in educational assessment, program evaluation, and data-driven decision-making. Bland received her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Virginia. Her current work focuses on evaluating programs in higher education, STEM education, and gifted ed- ucation, assessing learning and professional outcomes in formal and informal learning environments in higher education and the workforce; with a focus on project- and problem-based
2014 and Ongoing Committee/Faculty and Advisors Program Dissemination and Spring 2014/ Completed Web Design Summer 2014 capture-program.net Design and Implementation of Program Infrastructure at BC, PBSC Summer 2014 Completed Fall 2014 and FAU Phase I. Assessment: Prepare for Data Collection and Analysis of the Fall 2014 Completed Fall 2014 Program Approval Process for AS to BS for Completed for PBSC; 2014 curriculum mapping and model at Fall 2014 the Dept. level College and University Level Spring 2015 Completed