and has taught primarily physics and also research methodology on three different continents. In addition to research, she has also conducted workshops on using concept mapping methodology for scale development, mixed methods research methodology for standardized patient educators, and standard-setting for physician educators. Dr. Sunny continues to invest her skills in engineering education research through her collaborations. As part of her new undertaking at Baylor University, she is investing her skills as a research methodologist and data analyst to fight human trafficking through the use of Information Technology working alongside the research team there in collaboration with a diverse group of
tools have been aimed at capturing students’ conceptualunderstanding of sustainability using surveys1 and concept maps.2 While it is critical to ensurethat students grasp the complexity of sustainability topics, it is especially important forengineering students to be able to apply this knowledge in the design process. Unfortunately, lessdiscussion in the literature has been devoted to how to assess student sustainable designabilities.3One approach to capturing student sustainable design abilities is the use of rubrics. Rubrics areadvantageous because in addition to allowing for assessment of student work, they can also beused to scaffold student learning.3 Some authors have used or adapted professional ratingsystems for assessment of student
, Washington State University Dr. Olusola O. Adesope is a Professor of Educational Psychology and a Boeing Distinguished Profes- sor of STEM Education at Washington State University, Pullman. His research is at the intersection of educational psychology, learning sciences, and instructional design and technology. His recent research focuses on the cognitive and pedagogical underpinnings of learning with computer-based multimedia re- sources; knowledge representation through interactive concept maps; meta-analysis of empirical research, and investigation of instructional principles and assessments in STEM. He is currently a Senior Associate Editor of the Journal of Engineering Education.Dr. Candis S. Claiborn, Washington
97 57 49 52 37 34 Students 114 118 85 Community 117 81 100Figure 2. LTS Questions Considered in the Affinity MappingThe cycles of individual idea generation followed by group distillation were repeated until all ofthe areas on the LTS concept map were covered. This paper will focus on the faculty perspective(the top block of the deconstructed Rubik’s cube in Figure 2). The number of differentparticipant ideas (ie. Post-it notes) within each topic area are also shown in Figure 2 for eachsubcategory within a given perspective. In most cases, best practice ideas outweighed benefitsand obstacles, which were about equal.Table 1 below summarizes the