classroom, includinginstances of micro assaults, microinsults, and microinvalidation; and a facilitated metacognitivereflection on mentorship during which faculty shared reflections on their mentoring experiences,discussed common challenges, and lessons learned, which was repeated each semester [7], [8].Faculty mentors also supported one another with monthly 30-minute check-in meetings overZoom.Peer MentorshipThe ESP established peer mentoring during the second year of the program as a result of year onefindings that scholars desired to build community with their peers in addition to faculty mentors[7]. Peer mentors were comprised of preceding cohort members that were assigned duringorientation to the succeeding cohort members. Peer mentors and
dynamics as a challenge when confronting discrimination or bias. Pressurefrom a group to avoid conflict or to not alienate oneself may be a strong driver of silence ininstances of prejudice.The last new code that emerged from the interviews was changed behavior. From the qualitativeanalysis of the open-ended responses in the surveys, the authors uncovered changed perspectiveas a code. There is a subtle difference between these two as defined by the researchers wherechanged behavior recognizes a new action or intended action from the participant based on anew learning or reflection whereas changed perspective might not result in an action. Thisdifferentiation is important for this study and the resulting goals as simply changing perspectivesor
could invest more time into their education, as mentioned by one male White electricalengineering: "I hope that I would be selected for this program in order to receive a financialsupport to decrease my work hours and put more time on my major.” Another white Male civilengineering student adds a personal perspective, stating, "I could have achieved more if I didn’tneed to spend time compensating for my cost of living and education. This program can possiblyassist me in erasing those worries." Some students reflect on their experience with other NSF-related or scholarship based programs at community colleges and how they were able to benefitfrom these programs. For example, one male Asian mechanical engineering student explainedthat, “I attended
challenges of the pandemic, with the number of participants exceeding the pre-pandemic number in 2023. FTC engages students with STEM concepts, offering them uniquehands-on experiences through project-based learning, which serves as an ideal “Practice”component in the proposed LPS framework. 2) The judge room presentation component of theFTC competitions requires students to document, reflect, and learn from their experiences andthis helps us gather necessary data to evaluate the design, implementation, and results of the LPSframework. 3) Compared with other educational robotics platforms such as VEX [20], B.E.S.T[21], and World Robot Olympiad (WRO) [22], FTC’s motto of Gracious Professionalism moreaccurately addresses the service component of the
, each with unique strengths and local challenges. Weuse a collective impact model, allowing each campus to contribute to the development,deployment, and continuous improvement of the curriculum. Our team is composed of computerscience educators and social scientists with expertise in evaluating inclusive STEM education andtraining faculty at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs). Our evaluation plan examines bothstudent and faculty outcomes, enabling us to reflect and refine our approach. Shared leadershipand site teams are integral to sustaining the work, even amid potential academic personnelchanges.Our research is impactful in the learning sciences for several reasons. It utilizes faculty learningcommunities as a vehicle to bring change to
of correct behaviors, identification of weaknesses,adaptation of strategies, and reflection on their learning process. The AI model dynamicallyrecommended personalized learning pathways based on students' progress. This multifacetedfeedback approach contributed to a more effective and engaging learning environment,ultimately leading to improved understanding and mastery of swarm intelligence concepts andalgorithms. Williamson et al. [5] revealed how Internet of Things (IoT) technology can replicatebrain functions within physical settings, enabling the sensing and comprehension of humancognitive behaviors. They also showed how this innovation enhances human cognition andperformance.AI-driven Gamification: AI-driven gamification in education
skills, such as innovation, creativity, and project management.Keywords: Entrepreneurship, Collaborative Competencies, Pedagogical Model, TechnicalCareers, Ecuador.INTRODUCTIONThe dynamic global entrepreneurship landscape has undergone a significant transformation,playing a crucial role in economic development through collaboration with entrepreneurialprocesses [1]. The literature emphasizes that entrepreneurship goes beyond the simple creation ofcompanies, being an intrinsic attitude of human beings reflected in their ability to take risks,identify opportunities, and adapt to fluctuations in the labor market [2–6]. In this context, thedemand for entrepreneurial education has been increasing, highlighting its importance in creatingan
the research process (Jolivette,2015). Surveys, interviews, and focus groups create great benefits for the institution and itsresearch team (in the forms of grant funding, tenure, and graduate degrees, among others) oftenwith little to no benefit for the subject community (which may or may not even receivecompensation). Fair financial compensation that matches or exceeds the per-hour wages of theresearchers is a way to strive for equal benefit for TGNC subject populations from a researchjustice perspective. Our participants were compensated at a comparable hourly rate as theresearchers in order to reflect the unparalleled value of the unique expertise that they brought tothe research project.Site-visitsThe site-visit activities were divided
teachersengaged in a pre-departure course, a four-week program in China, and a follow-up curriculumdesign and delivery activity. These researchers used the IDI to assess participants’ gains, as wellas other qualitative methods including ongoing reflections, and an assessment of the participants’curriculum design projects. Similar to Cushner and Chang (2015), He Lundgren and Pines(2017) did not see dramatic growth on the IDI, but did see some positive changes in theparticipants’ beliefs, insights, and teaching practices.Using a different assessment strategy, Oken, Jansen, Hoffman and Coelen (2022) foundinternational experience to have a significant positive impact on developing the interculturalcompetence of teachers. Finally, Charity Hudley, and
theindustry professionals are too removed from the first-year student experience to be helpful [19].The mentorship program at West Virginia University transitioned away from industry mentorsfor first-year students as they reflected that first-year students were not yet ready to interact withexperienced industry professionals [11]. Success in the early mentorship programs is often evaluated with surveys for self-efficacy,identity, social community, and/or sense of belonging [2,3,5,7,8,20], or with analysis ofacademic grades or retention in the program [5,8,16]. While mentorship programs are often totedas successful anecdotally, the data is not always as clear to indicate the benefits when comparedto those students not participating. Sense of
topical themes wereinitially identified by reviewing the following three textbooks - Ethics in Engineering Practiceand Research [27], Engineering Ethics: Concepts and Case [9], and Engineering Ethics [8]– andthen continued by adding each additional textbook. Thus, more topics were iteratively addedafter each textbook examination. The final list of forty-one ethical topics identified, shown inTable 1, reflects a comprehensive list of engineering ethics topics. When a keyword wasmentioned or clearly alluded to, the topic was marked on the table with an “X” to indicate it wasincluded in that textbook. It is noteworthy that there were differences in the format of thetextbooks’ table of contents, specifically with the headings. The table of contents
near-peer mentoring between graduate students and undergraduate transfer students in engineering and computingIntroduction Mentoring is a practice in which a student, or mentee, and a more experienced individual,a mentor, engage in a relationship that includes advising or instructing by the mentor to thementee. This type of relationship can be seen throughout academia and is commonly foundbetween staff members and students. The concept of near-peer mentoring reflects the ideas andgoals of traditional mentorship but is formed between individuals who are at similar experiencelevels, personally or professionally, where the mentor and mentee relate to one another due tosimilar age proximity, shared goals, common experiences, or
perspective of a mentee who latertransitioned into a mentor at the admin/management level, this does not reflect a full view of astudent perspective. Instead, it highlights a unique trajectory stemming from a successfulmentorship program. Future studies could achieve a more nuanced understanding of thedynamics within mentorship programs by interviewing both mentees and mentors. Thisapproach would explore how the experiences of students/mentees influence these programs andcontribute to the reciprocal relationship often highlighted in interviews as a key aspect of thementee/mentor relationship.Only one student was interviewed, while the remaining three sites involvedadmin/management-level staff. This does not reflect a full view of the “student
research [44].3. METHODOLOGYThe methodology employed in this study consisted of a review process of the coursesyllabi, encompassing a detailed examination of individual modules and coursesegments. The primary aim was to identify the presence of design thinking embeddedwithin the curriculum. The initial phase of the review process involved a preliminaryexamination of the course content, facilitating the early identification of elementsrelevant to design thinking. In the coding phase, the accumulated data were classifiedaccording to predetermined criteria that reflected the implementation aspects ofdesign thinking within the educational offerings.The methodology adhered to a three-pronged search principle, focusing on:Design Thinking as Process
context of online learning and engagement, educational technologies, curriculum design which includes innovative and equitable pedagogical approaches, and support programs that boost the academic success of different groups of students. She teaches in active learning environments and strives to bring EE and CER into practice. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Equitable Computing Education Abstract The field of computing continues to struggle to increase participation that better reflects the domestic composition of the US society at large. Society could benefit from diversifying its workforce as
begun to address how computing education needs to change to reflect the newprofessional landscape graduates are entering where employees are expected to seamlesslyintegrate GenAI tools into their workflows for improved efficiency. Some faculty are providingGenAI tools to be used during the course, such as Harvard’s CS50 Duck Debugger, allowingstudents to practice leveraging such tools. Others are diving into the deeper pedagogicalimplications, such as Agarwal and colleagues [12], who highlight that teachers might need toshift focus from students' ability to write code from scratch to students' ability to critique code,potentially through the use of refute-style assessments.Turning to the students themselves, researchers conducted surveys to get
• Is your assignment prompt visually organized and accessible? • How can you scaffold this assignment with smaller “stepping stones” assignments? • Can you analyze examples in class to distinguish between excellent and adequate work? Additional • How will you encourage creativity so that examples are not seen as templates? Considerations • Will students have the opportunity to engage in peer review before final submission? • How will students reflect and comment on their completed, graded work after evaluation to identify what they did well and changes to
-oriented skills into the curricula with our regular annual career-oriented departmental co-curricular events. And since these are under our direct control, the synchronization is not likelyto be broken without the knowledge of the departmental faculty.Thus, we believe we have set ourselves up to maintain this strategic reimagining of our EE andCMPE programs. This is because (1) professional formation is not relegated to a single coursethat could be discontinued under budgetary pressures or mostly avoided by some students, and(2) because it is not a loose suggestion that a few junior faculty handle some added material, buta careful plan that comes with ready-to-teach modules on relevant technical topics—owned byall, reflected in each set of our
questionsFinally, the results of the open-ended questions in the survey will be presented. The firstquestion invited students to leave additional comments about the importance of the coursein an engineering program. Student response to the engineering course reflects a mixture ofappreciation and criticism. On the one hand, some students value the course for developingand expanding their ability to evaluate everyday situations methodically, which contributesto a better adaptation in the workplace, regardless of the direct use of the syllabus learned.However, others express frustration at being unable to understand key concepts, such asvoltage, resistance, impedance, and coil operation, pointing to a disconnect between theresolution of exercises and the
, bridge programs, transfersupport, undergraduate research, industry and faculty mentors, and conference and writingworkshops. These each contribute to the S-STEM community college success as they navigatetheir career in the community college and their goals beyond. The breadth and depth of differentsupport reflects the unique needs of the campus where the S-STEM grant originated. Eachcampus or consortium of campuses creates their own program and therefore emphasizes differentapproaches to curricular and co-curricular supports.Lack of theory focussed program in implementation of S-STEM Program 2 Through the systematic literature review, we
-based project work has also been found to be ahave a significant positive influence on retention [5]. An integrative team-based learning projectutilized in another entry level undergraduate computer science course was observed to helpstudents forge connections between the topics covered in the separate modules of the course anddemonstrate how that content could be integrated and synthesized to solve a problem [6].Improvements were noted in both student attendance and engagement. Including reflectionfocused team meetings as part of a team-based project was observed to improve the developmentof reflective skills important for addressing difficult engineering problems [15].Project-based LearningProject-based learning is a popular and engaging
can have a profound effect on motivation to learn andpersist to degree completion. Undeniably, student interest can change over time and majoring insomething other than a student’s initial interest at the time of university or college matriculationshould be encouraged based on exploration and self-reflection. However, there are policies basedon capacity limits in majors and constraints such as classroom capacity and course offerings thatschools grapple with which exclude students from their interest. From literature, we know thatabout half of females interested in engineering actually enter the major they were initiallyinterested in during their first year [1]. While there is some engineering education research whichexamines entry into
mentorship indicators. Fromthere, the researcher sought out additional literature. After having read and reflected on theinformation, the researcher constructed a draft conceptual framework for the purposes ofcategorizing and conceptualizing the types of mentorship, including traditional, effective, andcritical mentorship, as well as identifying the relevant mentorship indicators associated with thesementorship types.3.2 Scoping ReviewFor this study, a scoping review protocol based on Arksey and O’Malley’s framework [4] wasutilized as described previously [5]. Scoping reviews are useful when probing the literature as theyemulate the rigor of systematic reviews while keeping laser-focused on answering the researchquestions [4], [5]. Scoping reviews
] frameworks were most appropriate for the developing study.Next StepsThe initial research results will be used to develop the qualitative methods for the secondphase of the research project.Further, the PI will continue to advance her engineering education research capacity byparticipating in additional workshops, such as the Modern Meta-Analysis Research Institute.AcknowledgementThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under NSFGrant Number 2225399. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressedin this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation.Bibliography[1] United States Census Bureau, “The Chance That Two People Chosen at
a need to strengthen K-12 computing educationresearch (CER) and to ensure that the research holistically is reflective of the students wecollectively teach. This includes increasing the volume and quality of studies, and pinpointingresearch gaps that ensure all students’ learning needs are met. To address these issues, ourNational Science Foundation (NSF) project investigates three key questions: RQ1: How comprehensive is K-12 CER when examined with a specific lens on how it explicitly addresses broadening participation in computing or equity goals? RQ2: What are the barriers that prevent K-12 computing education researchers from conducting research across the four components of CAPE? RQ3: How effective are new
sources. They are also encouraged to share their own biographical information. Students are also provided with a sample of a previous bio-sketch. The assignment is scheduled for the first month of the course, but with flexibility to adapt to circumstances such as late matching, busy schedules, etc. Students are also advised to propose a meeting schedule for the project. • The “exchange” assignment requests from students to provide a narrative of 3-4 pages with the most relevant information exchanged in the meetings that students select for sharing. • The “personal assessment” assignment is intended for students to provide a one-page reflection on the added value of this project and some
understand howBME students develop an entrepreneurial mindset (EM). These studies explore curricular EMinterventions designed to encourage development of EM skills such as curiosity about the coursetopics [22], reflective thinking [16], and designing for a certain customer base [17], [42]. In Kinget al.'s study [40], BME students participated in capstone design projects where they worked inteams to design prototypes based on existing patent applications of industry professionals. Thesestudents were able to learn about the engineering design process as well as the business side ofintellectual property development such as patents, customer discovery, budgeting, andcommunication of results [40].In several studies on EM development within a BME context
engineering system. This is equivalent to 4 years of bachelor’s and 2.5 years ofmaster’s studies in the Chinese higher education system. During the undergraduate(preparatory) stage, students pursue courses in basic sciences and humanities, with intensivetraining in mathematics and physics, reflecting a typical feature of French engineeringeducation (Lemaître, 2017). In the master's (engineering) stage, students engage in generaland interdisciplinary engineering studies and specialize in an area of study in which they willcomplete a master's thesis.Figure 1. SFEP curriculum structureThe WIL program at SFEP includes three internships designed to develop professionalcompetences in a progressive manner. These include a one-month ‘observation internship
method as described above, the preliminary codebook wasapplied to all transcripts and subsequently probed using thematic analysis [34], [35]. Our teamreviewed the codebook and discussed potential modifications while using comments attacheddirectly to the data points to note sections of interest in the themes or other feedback. The firstauthor then modified the existing codes to reflect the team’s discussion, such as combiningsimilar concepts (e.g., Community and Collaboration includes “relationships”, “community”, and“collaboration”) or adjusting code names to be more precise (e.g., “social health” was changed toConnections and Interactions). The revised codes were applied to participant responses anddefinitions of each code were informed by
educators and industry partners. This strategic approach seeks to raise awareness oflocal engineering opportunities, contributing to talent retention within the region and fosteringsustainable growth in the skilled technical workforce. AcknowledgementsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.1943098. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this materialare those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.