Peer Review writing assignments have been components of all the general chemistrylaboratory courses at UCLA since 1997. Typically, two or three assignments are made during a10-week quarter. All deal with the theory or practice of the topics in the courses.Assignment Rationale: At UCLA, the upload feature focused on teaching scientific graphingskills for first-year engineers and physical scientists in a quantitative chemistry laboratorycourse. As Tufte articulated in 1983,1 “Translating and communicating data into a graphicalformat ranks high as an essential scientific skill.” The skill, however, is at best relegated toappendices in high school texts, and future engineers first encounter scientific graphing incollege in general chemistry, their
this topic or subject matter, considering the peer presentations and reflections? 2. Which part of the class do you find more thought-provoking, the teacher presentation or the student presentations? 3. Did the student presentations motivate you to participate and explore other related topics? 4. Does the Q&A based on your reflection induce you to participate in the presentation? (Question changed in F' 19 to "How and why does the Q&A based on your Reflection induce you to participate in the presentation?") 5. Please write your three most valuable takeaways from your peers' presentations. 6. Do you think breaking a class into two parts (professor's lectures and the peer presentations) helps you
helped me as a researcher, because it has really helped me think more clearly about what it is that makes a good manuscript.Importantly, this participant shares that the SPR prompted them to share manuscript strengthsinstead of solely focusing on weaknesses in a review, which not only is beneficial in supportingauthors, but also contributes to developing a schema for what constitutes a “good” manuscript.Research and Writing SkillsThe majority of mentees and mentors agreed the program improved their research skills (Fig. 4).All seven mentors who responded to the exit survey reported that they believed there is aconnection between peer review skills and ability to conduct research. One mentor shared: Being able to "see" how
Session 1430 Growing Undergraduate Student Mentoring Skills Using a Reflective Practice Guided by Peer Feedback Steven C. Zemke, Donald F. Elger University of IdahoAbstractOur university is facing increasing enrollment as well as decreasing funding. Class sizes andfaculty workloads are rising. As a result, the students’ personal connection with the faculty isdecreasing. To cost effectively augment the faculty effort and simultaneously increaseconnection with students we are utilizing undergraduate student mentors. Since excellentmentoring skills
Paper ID #26714Integration of Peer Communication Fellows into Introductory Materials Sci-ence Courses: Wiki Article DevelopmentDr. Sabrina Jedlicka, Lehigh UniversityDr. Gregory Mark Skutches, Lehigh University Greg Skutches earned both his Master’s (1997) and Ph.D. (2001) in English with a specialization in Composition and Rhetoric at Lehigh University. He joined the English Department at DeSales University in Center Valley, Pennsylvania in 1999 and returned to Lehigh in 2006 to establish and direct the Writing Across the Curriculum Program and teach courses in literature and first-year writing. In the fall of 2008, he
, Biomedical Engineering,University of Wisconsin at Madison) and her colleagues started for female faculty in engineering[3]. Dr. Chesler’s program was funded by Engineering Information Foundation to develop athree-year workshop series of community-building and peer-mentoring in a small group ofuntenured women faculty. First year their workshop with an Outward Bound adventure in Mainefocused on leadership skills and risk-taking. The second year workshop emphasized writing andcreative-expression skills in Vermont. The workshop attendees were joined by senior speakersand role models, Dr. Ilene Busch-Vishniac (Dean of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University) andDr. Denice Denton (Dean of Engineering, University of Washington), who shared their insightsand
Paper ID #33684Leader Development Model (LDM) Through Self- and Peer-assessment Acrossthe CurriculumDr. Alyson Grace Eggleston, The Citadel Alyson G. Eggleston is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Fine Arts, and Communica- tions at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, where she teaches STEM-focused technical writing and communication, writing-intensive courses for international students, and linguistics. She re- ceived her PhD from Purdue University in Linguistics, and she has a BA and MA in English with concen- trations in TESOL and writing pedagogy from Youngstown State University. Her
Critiquing Skills in a Bioengineering LaboratoryAbstractDeveloped at UCLA, Calibrated Peer Review™ (CPR) is a web-based tool developed to helpstudents improve their technical writing and critiquing skills. In 2006 and 2007 we used CPR inan upper-level tissue culture laboratory course in which students conduct viability, attachment,and proliferation assays using fibroblast cells. After completing their experiments, students usePowerPoint to construct a technical poster that illustrates their experimental methods, results, andconclusions.For the CPR component of the assignment, students first evaluate three sample posters suppliedby the instructor to calibrate their critiquing skills. After this step, students conduct a blindreview of three peers
Session 3592 Peer-Mentoring for Untenured Women Faculty: The Leadership Skills and Community-Building Workshop Naomi C. Chesler, Borjana M. Mikic, Peg Boyle Single University of Vermont/Smith College/University of VermontAbstractPeer mentoring is a promising strategy for improving the presence, retention and advancement ofwomen faculty members in engineering. Strategies for maintaining and increasing therepresentation of women faculty members in engineering departments may also increase theretention of female students pursuing engineering careers. As a first step toward
feedback quality (Task, Gap, and Action) forstudents who received the intervention, with the largest gain in students writing peer commentswith more actionable feedback We also found a significant difference in the length of peerfeedback comments between the class with the intervention and the class without theintervention. However, throughout data analysis, we observed gaps in our chosen framework,and as such, we are developing and testing an improved rubric to quantitatively rate studentfeedback. This paper will help instructors learn an approach toward aiding students in writingactionable feedback, improving the overall quality of qualitative peer comments. Further, wepresent the development of a rubric that can be used to assess peer feedback
-progress introduces the KLIQED tool along with itsrationale, a template, emerging evidence on its effectiveness from students’perspectives, and tips for instructors. Future work includes survey data analysisand a content analysis of the peers’ comments collected from completed KLIQEDsheets to further assess the effectiveness of the tool.Keywords: Oral communication, student engagement, project-based learning,attentionBackground and MotivationThe value of oral communication skillsCommunication skills, including reading, writing, listening, and presenting, are essentialcompetencies for entering the workforce and for participating in society. Therefore, degreeprograms in all disciplines (e.g. liberal arts, science, and engineering) are expected to
of Peer Mentoring is discussed and offered to students with each type ofmentoring (Scheduled Peer Mentoring and Mentor-Mentee Pair). Due three major topics in thelecture component of the course, the peer mentoring sessions were observed to driven by thematerial in those topics. Therefore, for the purpose of data collection and analysis ofperformance, the peer mentoring schedules were categorized. The three categories are: 1)Assistance with MS Excel concepts and Graphing Techniques 2) Assistance with Programmingin MATLAB and 3) Assistance with Project Management and technical writing for the DesignProject. In the previous work, the baseline was determined based on the grades in the first twoapplication assignments. The author noticed that the
changeeffort, along with two co-peers. The change effort focused on developing realistic designchallenges for core courses, increasing use of rubrics and attention to professional skills inassessment, and teaching technical writing in ways that align to research-based approaches.Data collection and analysisWe collected multiple kinds of data to document faculty participation. We recorded andtranscribed multiple faculty meetings, including professional development workshops, retreats,and industry advisory board meetings, observed faculty teaching, and gathered field notes andreflective accounts. To supplement these naturalistic data, we invited faculty to be interviewedusing semi-structured questions, resulting in seven audio-recorded interviews that
empathy and metacognitive skills (Topping,2003). However, it is important to note that engaging in a feedback process does notautomatically mean that learning takes place (Kollar & Fischer, 2010), and providing usefulfeedback is challenging even for college students (Nilson, 2003).In engineering learning environments, participation in the exchange of peer feedback can be ameaningful activity for students. In undergraduate engineering courses, peer assessment has beenused to provide feedback on writing (e.g., Carlson, Berry, & Voltmer, 2005), presentations (e.g.,Hersam, Luna, & Light, 2004), teamwork skills (McGourty & De Meuse, 2000; Ohland et al.,2005), and design solutions (Adams & Siddiqui, 2015; Yilmaz & Daly, 2016
report on thehelpfulness of feedback from both the course instructor and student peers, the results were notconclusive17,18. More generally, while there are many studies comparing peer and instructorfeedback in other domains such as English writing, rigorous characterization and comparison ofpeer and expert feedback in engineering design is limited.Taking a grounded theory methodological approach19, the wider aim of this research is toanalyze actual feedback provided by students and course instructors in design review meetingsthat utilize peer review and to expose the characteristics of each, with the ultimate intent ofevaluating and comparing their benefits and suitability. The focus of this paper is on the first stepof this process, which is
Georgia TechPeer Leader Resources Survey 1: What do you want out of a peer mentor in ECE Select all that apply Self-developed Discovery Studio? Write-in provided Survey 2: What support did your peer leader in ECE Discovery for “any other types Studio provide? of support” • Help completing ECE Discovery Studio Assignments • Help building a community at Georgia Tech • Help finding opportunities at Georgia Tech • Help navigating difficult
primary focus of this program was social, rather than academic, unlike many otherprograms studied in the past [3]. Mentees were required to join a peer group, but not required toattend, and no academic incentives or financial costs were attached, differing from someprograms [4]. Peer mentors and mentees met on alternating weeks for activities such as lunch,school athletic events, gaming, laser tag, and others.MethodsAt the start of the semester, mentors were asked to write a brief bio segment introducingthemselves and their interests. We had 80 first year students, and all were required to join a peermentor group. Mentees were then grouped based on shared interests with mentors. Next, mentorswere instructed to tabulate attendance, brief
. Ohland is an Associate Professor in Purdue University’s Department of Engineering Education and is the Past President of Tau Beta Pi, the national engineering honor society. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with a minor in Education from the University of Florida in 1996. Previously, he served as Assistant Director of the NSF-sponsored SUCCEED Engineering Education Coalition. He studies peer evaluation and longitudinal student records in engineering education.Hal R. Pomeranz, Deer Run Associates, Inc. Hal R. Pomeranz is a computer network security and database programming consultant. He is a co-founder of Deer Run Associates, Inc., currently operating in Eugene, Oregon
articial intelligence, information processing, and engineering education. He is the author of numerous research and pedagogical articles in his areas of expertise.Dr. Xiangyan Zeng, Fort Valley State University Xiangyan Zeng received her Ph.D. in computer science from University of the Ryukyus, Japan. She is currently a professor of computer science at Fort Valley State University. Her research interests include image processing, pattern recognition and machine learning.Dr. Chunhua Dong, Fort Valley State University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Enhancing Computer Science Program through Revising Curriculum, Peer Tutoring/Mentoring, and Engaging Students in Undergraduate
AC 2011-2548: NSF GRANTEE PRESENTATION: CHALLENGES OF IM-PLEMENTING A PEER MENTORING PROGRAM TO SUPPORT STEMLEARNINGFarrokh Attarzadeh, University of Houston Farrokh Attarzedeh earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Houston in 1983. He is an associate professor in the Engineering Technology Department, College of Technology at the University of Houston. He teaches software programming and is in charge of the senior project course in the Computer Engineering Technology Program. He is a member of ASEE and has been with the University of Houston since 1983. Dr. Attarzadeh may be reached at FAttarzadeh@central.uh.eduDeniz Gurkan, University of Houston Deniz Gurkan received her B.S. (1996) and
I:\Submission\ASEE-393.doc Building Better Teamwork Assessments: A Process for Improving the Validity and Sensitivity of Self/Peer Ratings Eric Van Duzer and Flora McMartinAbstract: A process employing both quantitative and qualitative methods was developed toimprove the validity and sensitivity of self/peer ratings in assessing teamwork skills.Preliminary results indicate a dramatic improvement in the sensitivity of scales in measuringdifferences between student skill levels. The data also indicate that the process improves thevalidity of the ratings in measuring what the developers
Rubric sub-dimension.The students were also required to give written feedback in response to eight prompts associatedwith the three MEA Rubric dimensions (APPENDIX B). The written feedback was collectedthrough a series of textboxes. The Mathematical Model dimension had five textboxes, the Re-Usability & Modifiability dimension had two textboxes, and the Share-Ability dimension hadone textbox to complete. The explanations of required focus for the peer feedback within thethree dimensions follow. Page 25.1323.5For the Mathematical Model dimension, the students were required to write feedback concerningthe degree to which the teams’ math model
towards a design studio environment evolving from traditional mentor-apprentice relationships [2].Significant prior research has explored the role peer feedback plays in student learning. Cho andMacArthur [13] found that peer feedback provided by multiple peers was more effective inimproving students’ writing performance than feedback provided by a single expert, or a singlepeer reviewer. Although some students held negative perceptions of the fairness and reliability ofreceiving feedback from peers, they derived benefits from participating in peer assessment,exemplifying a higher degree of reflection and more effective revisions of their own work [14].More recently, studies have investigated the role of peer feedback in design reviews/critiques
a team of 4 or 5students). Thus, based on the technical quality of the bridge designs, the lower peer ratings forMiddle Eastern students may reflect biased ratings by peers, while the lower peer ratings ofChinese students appear to have some objective justification.It is possible that in fact Middle Eastern and Chinese students contributed less to the team projectthan majority peers, on average. Putting together the written report and completing the groupdiscussion elements could be distributed unevenly among team members. For example, thosewith better writing skills may naturally take on these tasks. While the quality of the bridge itselfcreated by Middle Eastern students was comparable to average students in the course, the MiddleEastern
. Garden, M. S. Roh, J. E. Lee, C. M. Balch, and T. A. Aloia, “Reviewing the review: a qualitative assessment of the peer review process in surgical journals,” Research integrity and peer review, vol. 3, no. 1, p. 4, 2018. [5] W. Xiong, D. Litmaan, and C. Schunn, “Natural language processing techniques for research- ing and improving peer feedback,” Journal of Writing Research, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 155–176, 2012. [6] K. Cho, “Machine classification of peer comments in physics,” in Educational Data Mining 2008, 2008. [7] K. Lundstrom and W. Baker, “To give is better than to receive: The benefits of peer review to the reviewer’s own writing,” Journal of second language writing, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 30–43, 2009. [8] I
with groups, N/A Please share how the peer Reassured Me, Gave me compliments, Work through mentors helped you develop problems with me, Gave me extra time, Provided direction confidence when working in /support, Encouragement, Welcoming, Kind, Let students try the makerspace classroom. first/ fostered learning, Helpful, N/A (Confidence) Please share what new Programming /coding, Writing, Presentation skills, Soldering, technical skills you learned in Tool use, Drafting, 3D printing, Prototyping, Other, Circuits, this course. (Technical Skills) N/A How did the peer mentors
Paper ID #33981Near-Peer Mentoring and Early Exposure to Computer Science –Quantitative and Qualitative ResultsDavid Hartenstine, Western Washington University David Hartenstine is a Professor of Mathematics at Western Washington University. He earned his PhD at Temple University.Perry Fizzano, Western Washington University Perry Fizzano earned his BS degree in Computer Science from Widener University and his MS and PhD in Computer Science from Dartmouth College. He had stints in academia and industry prior to joining WWU in 2005. He served as department chair from 2012 - 2019. His research interests are in optimization
, explainingcourse material to struggling students, adjusting to different learning styles, and acting as amentor for other students [9], [16]. Through addressing these challenges, peer tutors are providedthe opportunity to foster a variety of skills that are essential for their personal development.Previous research has revealed that by participating in peer tutoring programs in science,engineering, or writing, peer tutors can develop key leadership skills, including communication,ability to work in a team, empathy, and presentation skills that follow them after graduation intotheir professional lives [10], [17] - [21]. Another impact associated with being a peer tutor infields like nursing, science, and engineering is the enhancement of qualities relating
replied “I feel the student instruction left me wanting formore guidance towards more specific lab goals.” When asked what they will carry with theminto other classes or other aspects of life, responses were almost all positive and included“writing good procedures”, “how to measure a signal”, “it was useful to learn how to effectivelyteach someone how to conduct an experiment”, “signal processing capabilities, experience, andconfidence”, and “how to work with and teach peers.” While many of the responses supportedthe objective of this technique, some showed a student-perceived dependence on the instructor.The end of semester institutional course evaluations (n=35 out of 47 students) had two textresponse questions. The first asked for comments and
Paper ID #6753Those who can, teach. Immersing Students as Peer Educators to EnhanceClass ExperienceDr. Beverly Kristenson Jaeger, Northeastern University Beverly Kris Jaeger, PhD has been a member of Northeastern University’s Gateway Team, a selected group of full-time faculty expressly devoted to the first-year Engineering Program at Northeastern Uni- versity. Recently, she has joined the expanding Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at NU to continue teaching Simulation, Facilities Planning, and Human-Machine Systems. Dr. Jaeger has been the recipient of several awards in engineering education for both