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ofpractice. The second cohort had a 91% retention rate, with 31 of the 34 participants completingthe workshops and communities of practice.Data Sources and AnalysisTo understand the effects of the JTFD professional development program, we conducted acomprehensive, multi-faceted project evaluation. Assessment focused on four major areas: a)shifts in awareness of, attitudes towards, and reported use of active learning pedagogicalpractices, (b) changes in instructional practices, and (c) effectiveness of communities of practicessessions, and (d) satisfaction with the JTFD program. Data sources includedsurveys/assessments, classroom observations, and student-level data from courses. Facultyparticipants completed multiple surveys reporting their
technical discipline. (Please note: continued discussion of the datasets will be performed. For example, the research team has already defined a CREATE student as a student who has successfully completed a CREATE course. Therefore, only data from students with grades of A, B, or C will be analyzed as a completer. The research team is in agreement that students who did not satisfactorily complete a course did not benefit from the successful learning that we are trying to trace into future wage increases and educational attainment). (Meuschke, Alfano, Sando, Feb. 2016)3. Request for datasets from Cal PASS Plus. The data was requested to be returned in aggregate. We have requested that they strip out the unique ID used by Cal- PASS
: ConclusionThe preliminary results of this study provide evidence that large-scale changes in the scope of adesign project may affect student motivation, enthusiasm, group dynamics, and the perception ofvalue. The first two parameters can have a great impact in a student’s persistence in their major.A longitudinal study will be continued to obtain data to support this hypothesis. Additionally, thegoal would be to identify ways to mitigate these effects to ensure a better student experience.References[1] National Science Foundation https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5257[2] Vernaza, K.M., Vitolo, T., Steinbrink, S. and Brinkman, B. (2012). “Building Excellence:Service Learning in the SEECS Program, an NSF S-STEM Sponsored Project
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thetangible impacts of our program on academic success metrics, psychosocial well-being, anddepartment-level goals.Moreover, we looked into the transformation in participants’ perspectives concerningnon-academic indicators to determine whether this transformation varies across the two programmodalities: online and in-person. To achieve this, we employed A/B testing and a thoroughevaluation of pre- and post-program score distributions 13,14 . In particular, we focused on two keyresearch questions:RQ1) The overall effect of the program on students’ non-academic indicators.RQ2) The differential impacts of online versus in-person program modalities.Our preliminary results indicate that the summer bridge program positively influenced manynon-academic
teaching. She leads the RIME Collaborative and Toy Adaptation Program at OSU.Dr. Mahnas Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Mississippi State University Dr. Jean Mohammadi-Aragh is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engi- neering at Mississippi State University. Dr. Mohammadi-Aragh investigates the use of digital systems to measure and support engineering education, specifically through learning analytics and the pedagogical uses of digital systems. She also investigates fundamental questions critical to improving undergraduate engineering degree pathways. . She earned her Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. In 2013, Dr. Mohammadi-Aragh was honored as a promising new engineering
afford the tuition. I am incredibly grateful for this scholarship because it has helped my family not to have to worry about more financial responsibilities. I still must work, but I am able to work fewer hours due to this scholarship. I can focus on my studies more because of this scholarship opportunity.” – Cohort 4 StudentIt is quite clear from these letters that the scholarships are fulfilling their intent andallowing under-resourced students to persist in their studies, while being in a betterposition to take advantage of academic and research opportunities. b. mentorshipStudents enrolled in the program were required to have both a faculty mentor and an industrymentor. Each month, students submitted a written report
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],[33] – [35].In our prior research [36], [37], we developed, piloted, and tested a curricular model that enablesstudents with diverse perspectives and disciplinary backgrounds to learn how to collaborate andintegrate concepts from their respective fields to develop computational solutions for complexreal-world problems. This model, Collaborating Across Boundaries to Engage undergraduates inComputational Thinking (CABECT), includes the following three main components: (a)implementing the curricular collaboration through coordinated, but separately taught courseswith different instructors, goals, outcomes, and deliverables; (b) collaboration with a communitypartner on identified social needs; and (c) the design and deployment of discipline
highereducation.AcknowledgementsThis work is supported by the National Science Foundation through Award No. EEC-1733708and EEC-1733678. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed inthis material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of National ScienceFoundation.References[1] B. O’Connell, "Going From Curious to Maker: New User Experiences in a University Makerspace," in VentureWell OPEN 2015 National Convention, Washington, DC, 2015.[2] K. M. Sheridan and A. Konopasky, "Designing for resourcefulness in a community-based makerspace," in Makeology: Makerspaces as Learning Environments. vol. 1, K. Peppler, E. R. Halverson, and Y. B. Kafai, Eds., ed New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2016
of the student in Statics or in the follow on courses. In the course ofadministering the Statics OLI over the years, it was observed that several students strugglewith a few common concepts. These are presented and discussed later in this section.Course statistics: 1. Statics: Winter 2010 a. Number of students participated (took quizzes) – 42 b. Number of students who took all the assigned quizzes – 42 c. Number of Modules/concepts/quizzes covered – 10 Page 24.1100.5 d. Number of students who took additional quizzes for extra credit – 6 e. Number of additional Modules attempted for extra credit – 7 f. Average scores
lines perpendicular to the lines shown in these alphabets. Furthermore, for specialcharacter ‘#’ its transformed image also has multiple lines perpendicular to lines in spatialdomain. Page 25.1270.5 (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f)Figure 3. (a) Rectangle image; (b) Rectangle in frequency domain; (c) Circle image; (d) Circle in frequencydomain; (e) Triangle image; (f) transformed to frequency domainFigure 4. Alphanumeric images in space domain and their respective FFT images
, the freshman scholarsjoined the PWS. Support from NSF (through this S-STEM) has provided an opportunity to: (a)ensure a consistent and diverse pipeline of well-prepared students for careers in STEM, (b)generate new knowledge on pedagogical strategies, efficacy research and (c) establish new andexpand/strengthen existing university-industry-state partnerships to overcome key challenges andsustain the work. This work is expected to build a stronger and more sustainable Studioenvironment at the college level. Most importantly, this grant has provided the opportunity tostudy the effectiveness of the Studio in students’ professional development and retention.The learning of skills of the PWS follows a three-step process: observe, do, and teach
working memory and higher-order cognitive processing, such assustained attention, reasoning, and evaluations [14]. Figure 1 illustrates the fNIRS device and theplacement of sensors and detectors that make up channels along the prefrontal cortex. (a) Figure 1: (a) fNIRS cap on the participant, (b) prefrontal cortex channel placementDesign taskWhile wearing the fNIRS cap, students were asked to complete a word-tracing task to recordbaseline activation in their brains. This type of baseline recording is typical amongneurocognitive studies [15], [16]. After the word tracing, participants were asked to rest forthirty seconds by staring at a crosshair. Students were then prompted to construct a concept mapusing paper and
computer engineering at UA were recruited for participation. Students wererecruited from the population of students who had completed (or were in the process ofcompleting) junior level courses related to electrical circuits. After recruitment, participating Figure 1: (a) Brno University of Technology and (b) overview of Prague from Prague Castle visited by IRES participants.students completed a one-semester prep-course at UA in the spring semester immediately beforetheir summer research at BUT.In the prep-course, participants met weekly with the program coordinator (Freeborn) for 2-hoursover 15 weeks. These classes were to prepare them for their summer research by introducingfractional calculus, fractional circuits, design methodologies
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to explore how therepresentation of women and Underrepresented Minority (URM) students and historicallyunderserved groups will be increased in an engineering department by deploying a multi-prongedapproach. Our definition of diverse student populations includes both visible differences such asgender and racial minorities, but also includes invisible differences such as poor, LGBTQ,disabled, veterans, and others. The approach includes curricular and extra-curricular reform,which is targeted at the Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) Department at Rowan andincludes: a) Radically changing admission standards to promote excellence; b) Enhancing the perception and understanding of diversity and equality among students, faculty
mentorship into account, could be performedwith both the research faculty and their graduate students. Sharing their passion for research withtheir graduate students and the public may have an impact especially on traditionallyunderserved or underrepresented populations in STEM, engaging them in a new and interestingway.AcknowledgementsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.1811119. 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.References[1] B. Fischhoff, “The sciences of science communication,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., vol. 110, no. Supplement_3, pp
a science orengineering field at UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC San Diego, or Columbia University.AcknowledgementsThis work was supported by the Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science, a NationalScience Foundation Science and Technology Center that is funded by NSF Award 0939514, andthe REU Site: A Partnership of NSF-funded Centers to Advance California Community CollegeStudents in Science and Engineering at UC Berkeley, a project funded by NSF Award 1157089.Additionally, the authors would like to extend a special thank-you to all of the TTE REUstudents for their hard work, their mentors for their time and patience, and the program staff fortheir organizational efforts and support.Bibliography1. Obama, B. (September 2009). A Strategy for
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professionalpractice that are increasingly global in nature.” Consequently, a necessary first step in thisprocess requires engineering educators and professionals to clearly understand what constitutes aglobally prepared engineer and what are the most effective learning experiences to produce suchengineers. This paper offers an overview of the progress to date of a NSF funded multi-university (Universities A, B, C and D) research initiative that investigates how the variousinternationally focused learning experiences within engineering (both curricular and co-curricular) impact students’ global preparedness.The research protocol involves three phases, broken into separate but interconnected studies.Study One has focused on developing an operational model of