contest. Some flight characteristics that were tested were: (a) how far the planesflew, and (b) how long the planes stayed in the air. But, it was difficult to judge some of thesecharacteristics because the planes performance depended on which “pilots” tossed them. So, nextyear, the organizers of the paper airplane contest have decided that three “pilots” should fly eachplane, and that the same three pilots should fly all of the planes. The problem statement of thepaper airplane MEA asked students to write a letter to the judges of a paper airplane contest. Theletter needed to provide a procedure which would allow the judges to decide which airplane is:(a) the most accurate flier, and (b) the best floater. Teams of three to four students then
interviews withstudents. Interview questions varied, but always asked students a) what they worked on that dayand b) if they encountered any sticking points in their work. These interviews constitute the datafor this paper. Data collection spanned two and a half school years.Participants in the full study were 40 students who enrolled for at least some portion of theschool year. This group was racially diverse: 2.5% were Asian, 25% were Black, 17.5% wereLatino/a, 35% were White, and 20% were two or more races; 47.5% were girls, 47.5% wereboys, and 5% were gender non-conforming. Across this full group, our data corpus consists ofapproximately 600 short interviews. For this paper, we analyze a subset of this data corpus,namely the data for 9 students
their instructors accordingly.AcknowledgementThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation underGrant No. EEC-1519412 and the Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (RED)program. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation.References[1] T. A. Litzinger, S. H. Lee, J. C. Wise, and R. M. Felder, “A Psychometric Study of the Index of Learning Styles,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 96, no. 4, pp. 309–319, 2007.[2] S. D. Gosling, P. J. Rentfrow, and W. B. Swann, “A very brief measure of the Big-Five personality domains,” J. Res. Pers., vol. 37, no. 6, pp. 504–528, Dec. 2003
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Paper ID #16265Noticing, Assessing, and Responding to Students’ Engineering: Exploring aResponsive Teaching Approach to Engineering DesignKristen Bethke Wendell, Tufts University Kristen Wendell is Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Tufts University, where she is also a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach.Jessica Watkins, Tufts UniversityDr. Aaron W. Johnson, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach Aaron W. Johnson is a postdoctoral research associate at the Tufts University Center for Engineering Education and Outreach. He received his
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Dr. Tabrizi is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at East Carolina University. He received his Ph. D. degree in Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, his M.Sc. degree in Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, and his B. Sc. degree in Computer Science. His research interests include Modeling and Simulation, Computer Vision, Signal and Image Processing, Software Engineering, Internet and Multimedia, Software Process Modeling, Object Oriented Analysis and Design, Computer Science Education.Karl Wuensch, East Carolina University Dr. Wuensch received his B.A. from Elmira College, M.A. from East Carolina University, and Ph.D. from Miami University. He is currently a professor and ECU
instructor, and the group's repeatability of the error (on the specificassignment) is plotted in Figure 2. Page 24.26.5 Figure 2. Plot of the probability distribution functions.For the study, the values of the coefficients from Equation 3 and the weights, , from Equation 1are shown in Table 1. These values were optimized by using the data discussed in the followingsections. Content Priority Prior Experience Repeatability Coefficients i=1 i=2 i=3 a 0 1 0 b
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completion of their degrees. Fulldetails of the development, administration, and preliminary results of the survey can be foundelsewhere.18, 19 For the purposes of this paper, we will be focusing on three constructs thatmeasure different aspects of academic self-confidence. Each construct comprises two or moreitems (questions). Page 14.614.3 I. Confidence in math and science skills: a) math ability b) science ability II. Confidence in open-ended problem-solving skills: a) Creative thinking is one of my strengths. b) I am skilled in solving problems that can have multiple solutions
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(worst), 3.01 (average:a ‘B’), and 4.3 (excellent: an ‘A+’).The process has resulted in two different review forms to date. The seed form was designed basedon teaching style, the students and their preparation, and the courses. The second iteration removedtwo questions and added thirteen leveraging our process for capturing sentiment. Since these factorsvary widely, our particular form may not be appropriate for other courses. Although the questionsare not solely limited to the field of engineering, they do reflect feedback from students in ourdiscipline. We do not believe there is a one-size-fits-all review form — it is a mistake to use onetuned to a specific course/discipline without going through the process of iteratively mining
the basic concepts taught in thecore STEM courses is a strong contributing factor to student attrition. Strategies to improvelearning experiences in STEM courses by all students at colleges and universities are thereforeneeded so that they persist in the STEM career pipeline. A group of STEM faculty members at aHistorically Black University is committed to this important need through the far-reaching use ofVirtual Reality (VR) in its STEM courses and investigating its impact on learning outcomes,engagement and persistence in STEM.The two big questions that continue to be examined by STEM education experts are: (a) Why dostudents change their majors from a STEM to a non-STEM major? and, (b) Why do studentsstruggle with STEM concepts leading
used for the purpose ofmapping and geo-spatial analysis. This software enables students to use the GPS application forasset management showing natural as well as in-built assets on the ground. The students werealso exposed to learning opportunities though mobile museums organized in the schools bySouth Florida Science Center and Aquarium (Figures 4b and 4c). a) b) c)Figure 4. Student Learning Activities: a) Asset Mapping of School Playground usingArcGIS Collector App, b) Mobile Museum in Middle School, c) Mobile Museum Set-up inHigh School Gymnasiumiv) Family Café events for the Middle and High SchoolsParental involvement in a student’s education has a
theowners of those differences as “inferior”), leading to the undervaluation and poor utilization ofpotentially critical contributions to the team. In general, when any team comes together to solvea problem, they automatically inherit another problem: the management of cognitive diversitywithin that team. Kirton refers to these two problems as “Problem A” (the original problem thatbrought the team together) and “Problem B” (managing their individual differences),respectively19; successful teams spend more time on Problem A than Problem B, but this may beno easy feat!It is also important to note that some scholars (and many practitioners) have become particularlyenthralled with Innovation (“radical, breakthrough change”) in recent years, which
organizational change in response to postsecondary education improvementinterventions? We identify the need for a multi-theoretical research model that allows us to morerigorously describe the potential for organizational change at the start of an educational changeintervention in higher education and to document change over time. To accomplish the first purpose, weset the stage by describing characteristics of educational change interventions targeting formalpostsecondary education organizations. Next, we detail findings from a targeted literature reviewconcerning: (a) the nature of formal postsecondary education organizations upon which we grounded ourontological perspective of these organizations, and (b) literature on organizational change that
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” indicate that theparticipant spent a relatively large amount of time in a particular design activity while skinnyticks indicate that the participant spent a brief amount of time in a particular design activitybefore transitioning to a different activity. By looking at students’ design processes depicted intimelines, we can see whether a student tended to transition frequently between design activities(as was the case with Senior A) or spend large amounts of time in an activity (as was the casewith Senior B and Freshman A). We can also note when (chronologically) a participant engagedin a particular design activity—for example, Senior A engaged in Gather Information morefrequently during the first thirty minutes of the design process, but did
fundamental engineering concepts. Such a study could lead totransformational approaches to repair students’ misconceptions by applying and testing thatontological schema training methods can help repair robust misconceptions, which are resistantto repair by traditional teaching methods.AcknowledgementsWe wish to thank the National Science Foundation for supporting this project: DevelopingOntological Schema Training Methods to Help Students Develop Scientifically Accurate MentalModels of Engineering Concepts (EEC-0550169).References1. Miller, R. L., Streveler, R. A., Olds, B., Chi, M. M. T. H., Nelson, A., and Geist, M. R., “Misconceptions about rate processes: preliminary evidence for the importance of emergent conceptual schemas in thermal and
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and after class; 3) learnstudent names; and 4) pose non-intuitive questions that spark curiosity (Figure 1).This emerging model, termed ECNQ (e.g., acronym for Engage, Communicate, Names,Questions), is an active and dynamic approach to engaging students in the engineering classroomand works towards disrupting traditional normalized, ineffective teaching practices that limitand/or stifle student participation by helping to engender conditions for deep learning, activeparticipation, and engagement. Three main sources provided the foundation for development andrefinement of the model proposed by the authors: a) teaching practices employed by the authorduring lecture sessions; b) post course analysis of teaching experiences; c) literature
not provide information about the gender or race. Participants were asked tocomplete surveys in class at the beginning (Week 2) and end of the semester (Week 15) to assesstheir thoughts and feelings about engineering. The survey took approximately 15 minutes tocomplete.4.2 MeasuresIn addition to standard demographic variables, we also collected measures of (a) students’ self-assessed ability to achieve the outcomes listed in ABET Criterion 3, (b) situational interest inengineering that emerged as a function of the course, and (c) individual interest in engineering asa profession/discipline. These measures, described in detail below, were highly reliable, withCronbach’s alphas above 0.80.Student Outcomes (ABET Criterion 3). Students rated the
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instructions thatencouraged students to discuss the implications of the problem and develop approaches toaddress it, rather than immediately develop solutions. After all, practicing engineers mustapproach problems holistically, working as a team to assess data sources, address contextualissues, and communicate with stakeholders before deciding on solutions. “The scenario assignment is not intended to measure a student’s scientific knowledge. Rather, it is a realisticopen-ended task that draws on a student’s critical thinking skills as well as problem formulationand management expertise.”17 See Appendix B for instructions and sample scenarios.The Student DiscussionBefore each of the 45-minute curricular debriefs, a CTLT facilitator informed students
purposes. The response rate for this survey was80.2%. A total of 80 students responded to Course Survey 2 and provided consent. Theresponse rate for this survey was 83.3%. Select results from Course Survey 1 are displayed intables below. In addition, Appendix B displays the frequency data and descriptive statistics forthe rating scale items from Course Survey 1. Appendix C displays the frequency data anddescriptive statistics for all items administered during Course Survey 2.How do students use the video lectures?The overwhelming majority of the students reported watching each video that was availableonline. Most students (92%) reported watching the video one time, although many studentsreported reviewing unclear portions of the video. Figure 2
bring to their early learningexperiences.References[1] L. Kaczmarczyk, E. Petrick, J. P. East, and G. L. Herman, “Identifying studentmisconceptions of programming,” in Proceedings of the Forty-First ACM Technical Symposiumon Computer Science Education, 2010, Conference Proceedings, pp. 107–111.[2] R. Lister, B. Simon, E. Thompson, J. L. Whalley, and C. Prasad, “Not seeing the forestfor the trees: Novice programmers and the solo taxonomy,” in Proceedings of the 11th AnnualSIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ser.ITICSE ’06. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, 2006, p. 118–122.[Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1145/1140124.1140157[3] J. D.Bransford, A. L.Brown, and
students to the higher order thinking skills such as analysis, synthesis, and creative problem solving. Simple questions asking students to list facts or identify among given choices will not be very valuable to achieving the goal.4. We recommend review videos to include the must-have features as students elected. In addition to giving control of how they want the video to be played, students should have access to the handouts used by the review video so that they can take their own notes. An example problem should be included at the end of the video to explain to students what they are expected to understand upon a successful review.References[1] B. Honeycutt, “Ready to flip: three ways to hold students accountable for pre-class work
situations wecreate, we may find additional paths forward.This paper is organized as follows. In the next section we offer three vignettes to concretize thework. We follow these vignettes with a traditional section devoted to related work. We thendescribe the activities that led to the findings section including (a) the context of the surveydevelopment efforts, (b) specific details of the survey development effort during a four monthperiod, and (c) the processes that led to the findings presented in this paper. Then, afterpresenting the findings, we turn to discussion and implications. MotivationAs part of our work on promoting reflection in engineering education, we have hadconversations with