interventions the class works in small teams. To facilitate the team, peer facilitatorsand teaching assistants (whenever they are available) help during class periods. To provide an incentive to encourage the students to help each other, they wereoffered extra credit on exams. After scoring the first exam, the students were allowed tore-form their teams of three and the team composition remained fixed for the balance of Page 11.255.3the term. Extra credit for exam N was determined as follows. The team summed theirpoints on exam (N-1) and they summed their scores on exam N. If the sum on exam N isgreater than or equal to 30 plus the sum on exam (N-1) then
outside of the classroomincluding a local planning commission meeting, and a field trip to Washington D.C. to meet withdecision makers involved in technology policy. The agenda for the 2004 trip to D.C. includedvisits at the EPA, Congressional Research Service (CRS), and with congressional staff members.There are also often relevant guest lectures on campus.Group Projects and DebatesThe last outcome relates to the student practice of their verbal, written, graphical, and teamworkskills with special emphasis on verbally communicating technical information. This is achievedthrough group projects, presentations, class debates, and peer reviews including a peer-review ofvideotaped presentations. To enhance the quality of these presentations and
understand which characteristics of team development during the eventhad the highest correlation with team success. Knowledge of which characteristics best predictteam success amongst focused peers could influence the development of targeted interventionsaimed at increasing team cohesion and potential for success.BackgroundJim Clifton, in his book “The Coming Jobs War”, writes that “Entrepreneurship is moreimportant than innovation. Innovation is critical, but it plays a supporting role to almightyentrepreneurship… [I]t’s far better to invest in entrepreneurial people than in great ideas.”(Clifton, 2011) . Clifton’s central argument is that entrepreneurship is about creating jobs andthat for countries, particularly the US, it is critical that
than simply an “obedient engineer”. The framework proposes that theentrepreneurial mindset of students is increased by promoting curiosity, encouragingconnections, and creating value. The results from this work provide insight into the impact andimplications resulting from applying the KEEN framework to the engineering classroom viaonline discussions.Keywords: writing, journals, reflections, assessment, KEEN, curiosity, connections, creatingvalue.1 IntroductionThe entrepreneurial mindset is a “growth-oriented perspective through which individualspromote flexibility, creativity, continuous innovation, and renewal” [1]. While theentrepreneurial mindset can be useful in starting a new company, this mindset is also critical toexisting
instillstudents’ drive to gain new knowledge (Kuh, 2007). Astin (1993, 1999) found that frequentstudent-faculty interaction is more strongly related to student satisfaction in college than anyother type of involvement. Lin and Tsai (2009) and Holt et al. (2007) observed that engineeringstudents valued a learning environment that was student-centered, peer-interactive, and teacher-facilitated, and favored both classroom and laboratory instruction. Chen et al. (2008) echoedAstin’s (1999) call for educators to be more focused on student engagement, advocating highlevels of faculty engagement in the design, revision, and improvement of undergraduateengineering programs, and teaching that effectively addresses students’ cognitive and affectivestates of mind
Professional Skills module wherein the benefitsof volunteering within the engineering discipline, both in terms of making a difference tosociety but also with regards to promoting individual employability and self-directed learningwill be emphasized.Additionally, working with colleagues, a number of mentoring opportunities aimed atfoundation students were offered and supported by the School. One such opportunityinvolved students going into inner city schools to offer mentoring in mathematics. Whilstother students were recruited for a foundation level Peer Assisted Learning project, providingmaths mentoring for their peer group. At graduate level, finding time outside of thecurriculum to enable the students’ to participate in such activities proved to
selected for the program, not of the specifics of the project they will be working on,or who they will be working with.The final reveal is performed at our May poster session and graduation ceremony for ourdeparting fellows who completed the program. The new fellows are invited to the poster session,and have the opportunity to talk to their peers who have just completed the program. The postersession culminates with the graduation ceremony for the prior fellows and an initiation ceremonyfor the new fellows. It is at this ceremony that the fellow is paired up with their graduate studentmentor and the faculty advisor. The expectation is that the mentors and advisors will take thetime to get to know the new fellows, talk about the project, and
) enrollments over the past six years (2013-2019)[2] in contrast to the minor decline inother student groups. This growth has resulted in over 1060 military affiliated students enrolled inFall 2019[2]. The university Veteran Service Office (VSO) supports these veterans and familymembers through a wide variety of student services. The office has many programs which includea veterans specific orientation programs, counseling sessions (individual and group), and GreenZone Training for faculty. The office also maintains a veteran lounge and conference room. TheCollege Of Engineering veterans program, Veteran Education Continued Through EngineeringResearch (VECTER), provides additional services to veterans which include peer to peer tutoring,a faculty
orientation8, 9. According to the recentresults published by the National Survey for Student Engagement (NSEE), there are four performanceindicators for student engagement: academic challenge, learning with peers, experiences with faculty andcampus environment10, 11. While there are several ongoing efforts to improve engagement in engineeringclassrooms12-18, this paper reports the results from the implementation of a blended teaching model at SanJose State University.“Tailored Instructions and Engineered Delivery Using Protocols” (TIED UP) is a media-rich blendedmodel used for teaching engineering concepts. Developed at Tuskegee University, this model is reportedto be effective in improving student grades and their engagement in the classroom19. This
and discussions over fifteen weeks covering 1) anintroduction and overview of STEM and STEM literacy, 2) guiding principles in STEM Education,3) typical components of STEM, 4) workshops on developing an instructional STEM unit(curriculum unit), 5) STEM instruction from an integrated approach, and 6) pre-service teacherresidency peer experiences (Appendix A).Evaluation Approach and Method Reflection in engineering education has become highly regarded as an evaluation approachinvolving the concept of “doing and reflecting on the doing” [8]. Supported by several engineeringeducation researchers, “reflective techniques” are important in fostering effective teaching andstimulating student learning [9-13]. Turns [9] defines reflection “as
offensive competitions, the use of peer instruction [10] and mentoring[11] have also been proposed. Other approaches include professional certification-drivencurriculum development [12], challenge based learning [13] and systems [14] and multi-disciplinary based approaches [15]. To help determine what approaches are best for thischallenge, Mirkovic, et al. [16] propose a protocol for evaluating cybersecurity educationinterventions that is outcome driven and combines skill assessment, self-assessment andlongitudinal follow-up. Harris and Patten [17] suggest the use of Bloom’s and Webb’sTaxonomies as another approach for driving curriculum development.The use of a variety of learning technologies has also been proposed. These have includedvirtual
teaching practices [13]. Kuh et al. [15] studied theeffect of engagement in meaningful academic activities on retention of first year students andshowed statistically significant impacts on GPA and persistence. They also noted a proportionallyhigher impact of educationally engaging activities on students from underserved groups. Acommon theme in the literature on engagement is academic challenge, faculty-student interactions,and peer interactions. In this regard, Carini, Kuh, and Klein [16] conducted a survey of over 1000students and determined a positive impact of engagement on critical thinking skills and grades.Empirical evidence resulting from research on strategies for engagement indicates that activelearning such as problem-based learning
movie and television examples are becoming dated anddo not resonate with new faculty. Additionally, determining one’s place in Lowman’s modelremains difficult. As evidenced by the authors’ experience writing this paper, debating where anindividual sits in a category, while entertaining, is not a simple task. This paper describesdevelopment of a rubric to assess teaching in both of Lowman’s dimensions and applies therubric to contemporary movie and television teachers.In this paper, the authors present a summary of Lowman’s Two Dimensional Model of EffectiveCollege Teaching1. Next, development of a rubric to assess which style of instruction bestdescribes an instructor is presented. The rubric is applied to several contemporary teachers
practiced in other projects throughout the semester.IntroductionThere are many challenges in STEM education, including stimulating student interest, retainingstudents of diverse abilities and backgrounds, and preparing students to address the realities ofthe post-academic world and work-space. Many novel approaches have been developed toaddress these challenges, including problem- and project-based learning [1], entrepreneurship[2], and flipped classrooms [3].First-year engineering students face many unique challenges, including a heavy academic load ofprimarily technical courses. Engineering student success has been shown to be helped byincreasing students’ peer-to-peer instruction [4], and increased efficacy [5] and increasingstudents’ personal
Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research, ICER ’18, pages 60–68, New York, NY, USA, 2018. ACM. ISBN 978-1-4503-5628-2. doi: 10.1145/3230977.3231000. [7] Briana B. Morrison, Lauren E. Margulieux, Barbara Ericson, and Mark Guzdial. Subgoals help students solve parsons problems. In Proceedings of the 47th ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education, SIGCSE ’16, pages 42–47, New York, NY, USA, 2016. ACM. ISBN 978-1-4503-3685-7. doi: 10.1145/2839509.2844617. [8] Barbara J. Ericson, Lauren E. Margulieux, and Jochen Rick. Solving parsons problems versus fixing and writing code. In Proceedings of the 17th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research
cohorts. The initialfaculty cohort team comprises five of the six facilitators of the new cohorts. Moreover, all sevenmembers of the initial faculty cohort continue to meet. This community of practice is leading thedevelopment of additional workshops, implementation of an assessment/evaluation framework todocument the effect of active learning as this continues and expands through SCSE, writing grantproposals to enable further dissemination of the multidisciplinary cohort model approach acrossa college of engineering and science, and supporting each other’s individual research endeavors.IntroductionThis paper describes Work in Progress (WIP) efforts to increase active learning in a college ofengineering and science. Motivation for this project
assignment prompt posted on the LMS for the CRs is shown below. Five formats aredescribed. Note that for the analysis of this paper the last item is split into two distinct formatsbased on whether the item is an article or video. Concept Reflection Student BlogCONTRIBUTE **4-8 SENTENCES** FOR ONE OF THE FOLLOWING: (1 PT EACH) • Concept Analogies: Choose a complex concept from the reading or videos. Explain the concept using an analogy to a simplistic concept that would be familiar to your peers. Be sure to explicitly (though concisely) explain how the two inter-relate, or what commonalities the two share. • Materials Revelations: Choose a new concept from the assigned reading or videos. Select a common
research fellow at Carnegie Mel- lon University, Pittsburgh (2001 – 2003) and BHP Institute for Steel Processing and Products, Australia (1998 – 2001). Dr. Manohar held the position of Chief Materials Scientist at Modern Industries, Pitts- burgh (2003 – 2004) and Assistant Manager (Metallurgy Group), Engineering Research Center, Telco, India (1985 – 1993). He has published over 70 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences in- cluding a 2007 Best Paper Award by the Manufacturing Division of American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), three review papers and five book chapters. He has participated in numerous national and international conferences. He is a member of ASM International, TMS, ACerS, AIST, ASEE
section. These two coursesections share the same hybrid structure, the same material, assignments, activities, assessments,course schedule, meeting times, and the same instructor. The only difference is the deliverymethod for live material. Students in the HF2F section are physically present for the classmeeting, and students in the HSOL section are digitally present for the class meeting. HSOLstudents interact in real time with HF2F students and with the instructor. Studies support thisneed for peer and instructor interaction, and suggest that it helps to overcome social andacademic isolation common with purely online courses13, 14.There is some technology required for the converged classroom. It is necessary to have a coursemanagement system
actively seek classes and instructors in which to easily earn “A” gradesand the advent of internet resources is making the search easier for students13,14.At the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, beginning in the Fall 2014, the transcript willinclude (1) the student’s grade, (2) the median grade of classmates, (3) and the number of studentin the class15,16. The additional information on the transcript shows the student’s performancerelative to their peers. The proposed contextual grading is expected to place the “spotlight” oncourses with high grade distributions. Transcripts typically have the semester and cumulativeGrade Point Average (GPA). It will now show the student’s Schedule Point Average (SPA)which is the average grade for the
*. 5 3. Working with teammate 5 2 4. Discuss design plans with peers 4 1 5. Using OPNET to evaluate the performance of your design plans 3 6. Writing the report 3 1 Page 26.479.9 7. Preparing a “Promotion flyer” for bidding* 2 *New or enhanced elements in the revised CPBL.2) Moving from Surface Approach to Deep ApproachWell-designed CPBL encourages students to move toward using a deeper learning
Non-linear and Iterative Problem Solving or LaboratoryInteractive engagement with frequent formative feedback:The NRC Discipline-Based Educational Research (DBER) committee “characterizes thestrength of the evidence on making lectures more interactive as positively impacting learning asstrong.” 23(p.122) In a paper commissioned by the NRC for the Evidence on Promising PracticesSTEM Education Workshop,28 James Fairweather writes “The largest gain in learningproductivity in STEM will come from convincing the large majority of STEM faculty thatcurrently teaches by lecturing to use any form of active or collaborative instruction.” A recentmetaanalysis showed that classes with active learning outperformed classes
Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of California, Davis. Dr. Haungs spe- cializes in game design, web development, and cloud computing. He is the developer of PolyXpress (http://mhaungs.github.io/PolyXpress) – a system that allows for the writing and sharing of location-based stories. Dr. Haungs has also been actively involved in curriculum development and undergraduate edu- cation. Through industry sponsorship, he has led several K-12 outreach programs to inform and inspire both students and teachers about opportunities in computer science. Recently, Dr. Haungs took on the position of Co-Director of the Liberal Arts and Engineering Studies (LAES) program. LAES is a new, multidiscisplinary degree offered
various aspects of mentoring9. The series, called “You andYour Career: A series on Mentoring and Professional Development”, included seven talks andconversations related to mentoring and the mentoring relationship9. Instead of taking the benefitsof mentoring as a given, UCSB librarians engaged in thoughtful dialogue about the possibleadvantages. Several sessions also provided a forum for librarians achieving success in specificareas (e.g. professional association leadership, grant writing, research) to discuss theirachievements thereby positioning themselves as possible mentors in these areas. UCSB’smethods not only gave librarians a forum to critically evaluate the purpose and outcomes ofmentoring but also promoted a “culture of mentoring
relevant knowledgeand applicable skills that prepare students for a career in engineering or engineering technology.Jonassen, Strobel, and Lee [1] describe this preparation and transition as workplace transfer. ThePedagogy for Employability Group [2] suggests, when hiring graduates, employers seek thefollowing attributes: imagination/creativity adaptability/flexibility willingness to learn independent working/autonomy working in a team ability to manage others ability to work under pressure good oral communication communication in writing for varied purposes/audiences numeracy attention to detail time management assumption of responsibility and for making decisions
learning and in students asindividuals.Estes and Welch3 used teachers from movies and television shows to ease understanding ofLowman’s model. However, some of the movie and television examples are becoming dated anddo not resonate with new faculty. Additionally, determining one’s place in Lowman’s modelremains difficult. As evidenced by the authors’ experience writing this paper, debating where anindividual sits in a category, while entertaining, is not a simple task. This paper describesdevelopment of a rubric to assess teaching in both of Lowman’s dimensions and applies therubric to contemporary movie and television teachers.In this paper, the authors present a summary of Lowman’s Two Dimensional Model of EffectiveCollege Teaching1. Next
instruction to improve students’ grasp of the material.The Rotational Kinematics Inventory (RKI) is a peer-reviewed, validated assessment tool formeasuring students’ conceptual understanding of rotational kinematics. It is provided forteachers’ use by PhysPort, a website maintained by the American Association of PhysicsTeachers (AAPT) and supported by the National Science Foundation [3]. PhysPort gives theRKI a “silver” rating, its second highest ranking of research validation. This rating was grantedbecause the tool was developed through student interviews, expert review and statistical analysis,tested by multiple research groups at multiple institutions and the results were peer-reviewed [3].Development and testing of the inventory were reported by
, of course, not the only ways of providing cybersecurity education. Studieshave previously assessed the efficacy of using techniques such as peer mentoring [25], peerinstruction [26], games [27] and competitions [28] to teach cybersecurity knowledge and skills.3. Program Description & Changes from Year OneThe NDSU REU program has a number of components. Students first select a topic. Duringyear one, students were asked to brainstorm topics, in conjunction with their research mentor.For year 2, faculty were asked to identify areas of research interest. Students were then pairedwith faculty mentors based on the topics that they indicated interest in. The student and thefaculty mentor were then asked to further refine the topic, working
avoiding student debt 6, 8 , o dealing with issues of social life within the university community 6.• work to improve career skills, including o resume writing 6, 8, o interviewing skills 6, o business etiquette 10.• increase participation in student organizations 1.• encourage undergraduate participation in research programs 1.• seek feedback from students and faculty 1.• increase student interaction/mentoring by peers, faculty, and industry professionals 1.Participants in these programs tended to achieve better grades and graduation rates amongunderrepresented minorities.Felder and Brent 11, in a review article about levels of intellectual development described, amongothers, the Baxter Magolda model that
integration, greenhouse designand business strategy development. Each group had a particular objective to accomplish, andworked independently but in coordination with other subgroups. To keep the group cohesive,each week the class met to update the entire class on each sub-group’s progress. This divisionallowed subgroups to obtain an expertise in a particular objective—while honingcommunications skills, so that the venture remained as one unit. Additionally, due to the range ofbackgrounds within each subgroup, members were able to learn from their peers from otherdepartments and colleges. Next, we discuss the various sub-groups and their work.Emergent IntegrationAn important aspect of the iSPACES venture was the infusion of systems, design