that this technique is likely to bevaluable to qualitative researchers in a variety of disciplines who find themselves not matched byrace, ethnicity, gender, and other characteristics to the study participants. This technique enabledus to shift the focus away from the interviewer asking questions toward the students describingtheir own major choice process.We used Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) to better understand students’ reasons fordeciding to major in engineering [2, 3]. Lent and colleagues [4] utilized Bandura’s [5] socialcognitive theory to validate choices of Black students in engineering. SCCT’s main componentsthat shaped our analysis include (a) self-efficacy beliefs (beliefs about one’s capacity to performa task or take a
ninth grade through rising twelfth-grade girls. miniGEMS after-school clubs meet weekly to learn block coding using EV3 LEGO Mindstorm robots to competein FIRST LEGO competitions each spring.The mission statement of GEMS is to inspire and empower young girls to be innovative withtheir future in the fields of STEAM. GEMS covers diverse topics of education that the studentswould not normally be exposed to, supporting each other, developing teamwork skills, learninghow to better the community with their knowledge, being creative, and developing self-efficacy[1]. GEMS is unique because it targets girls from under-resourced, underserved,underrepresented communities giving low-income areas of San Antonio, Texas an opportunityto gain experience and
)studied the desire of the U.S.-based college-level world language educators to teach online, faceto face, or hybrid of both. The results indicated that the educators were positive to adopt onlinelanguage teaching after the pandemic ends even though many preferred hybrid teaching if theywere given the option. Hong et al. (2021) predicted the students’ practical performance anxietyusing Neuroticism and Extraversion through Internet and academic self-efficacy. Wang et al.(2020) used “computer foundation” course to explain the process of shifting to online teaching.They used the concept of enhanced design of interaction, learning theories, and problem-basedlearning (PBL) in this study. They used the learning management system (LMS) to collectstudents
experiences and projects are important partsof learning. Later, Kolb, in his Experiential Learning Cycle (KLC) [2], placed large importance onexperiencing and applying/doing as essential elements of optimal learning. Positive experientiallearning from accomplishing successful projects is also emphasized as an important component ofincreasing self-efficacy [3]. Therefore, it is not surprising that KLC implementations were reportedin most of the engineering disciplines like civil engineering [4] – [6], mechanical engineering [6],chemical engineering [4], [5], [7], aeronautical engineering [6], industrial engineering [8], andmanufacturing engineering [4], [5], [9]. Bansal and Kumar [10] describe a state-of-the-art IoTecosystem that includes edge devices
MPA are no longer eligible for the scholarship and aredropped from the program. Prior to the start of the fall quarter, all scholars are enrolled in a mathfocused bridge program designed to prepare students for their first calculus course and begin tocultivate a sense of community. The scholars then enroll in the same section of calculus andreceive continued support from the instructor, department faculty (mentoring), and their peers(study groups).Data AnalysisThe data analyzed as part of this study consist of surveys and focus groups. The survey wasadministered in fall quarter of each academic year. Survey questions assess sense of belonging,identity, and self-efficacy. For this study, focus was placed on student responses to the
outcomes to the youth and staff related to the mentoring relationships. TheFramework helps practitioners assess mentoring programs and find areas for programdevelopment.Mentoring in Engineering OutreachIn university outreach activities, mentoring has been employed to attract a wider diversity ofstudents to the engineering and science fields [8] - [10] and improve mentors' professional skills,such as leadership and teamwork [11] - [13]. The research involves a breadth of approaches toassessing programs, like Bandura’s self-efficacy model [12], [14], [15], Bloom’s taxonomy [16],and engineering competence development [15], to name a few.ObjectivesThis research seeks to find opportunities in virtual engineering outreach programs wherementoring can
they engaged students in multiday engineering designchallenges. But the authors concede the instrument is time consuming to implement and thuspossibly limited in scalability. Webb and LoFaro [10] reported on a dedicated STEAM methods course designed totarget the development of preservice elementary teachers’ sense of self-efficacy for teachingengineering. Measurements of teacher self-efficacy were made using a modified version of theTeacher Sense of Self-Efficacy survey developed by Tschannen-Moran and Hoy [11]. Theyreported positive shifts in efficacy for student engagement, instructional strategies, andclassroom management. Such dedicated courses are not yet common in elementary teacherpreparation courses but hold significant
institutionalizationdecisions, providing a practical model for other institutions, and supporting future programmodification to provide the best possible experience for students. Since cohort 1 studentsreceived ACCESS scholarships for the first time in fall 2020, however, data is not yet available.Analysis of measures of student success and persistence, self-efficacy, and motivation within thecybersecurity field will be topics of future papers.6.0 ChallengesWhile the restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic presented challenges related torecruitment and programming activities, the ACCESS project team quickly adapted to the newreality and organized online meetings, an award ceremony, panels and seminars, and created anonline private group to support effective
future work in assessing teacher confidence inteaching soft robotics and engineering design as well as the impacts of teacher-delivered softrobotics curricula on students. Future measures may include teacher self-efficacy, studenttinkering self-efficacy, and STEM identity as methods to probe the impact of the curriculum onteachers, students, and classrooms either in person or virtually.AcknowledgementsThis work was supported by the Office of Naval Research (award # N000141912386), NationalScience Foundation (award #1830896) and the Tata Trusts through The Lakshmi Mittal andFamily South Asia Institute.References 1. G. Potvin et al., “Gendered interests in electrical, computer, and biomedical engineering: intersections with career outcome
that indicate college success and are on the job, interpersonal communication strategies,within the power of the individual to adjust. The activities and networking, interview strategies, working on a team, projecttopics covered in the Connections course focus on these six management and working in a global context. Furtherfactors and provide resources to help students improve. The opportunities to become connected are provided through theareas are as follows: academic self-efficacy, organization and Clay N. Hixson College of Engineering Student Success Fairattention to study, stress and time management, involvement where each organization and department shares informationwith college activities
integratedinstitutional network of supports that increases students’ self-efficacy, sense of belonging to theirmajor, and belief in the importance of their contributions to society. These are key factors thataffect retention in STEM fields [1]-[7]. The FS2 program is funded by the National ScienceFoundation, is focused on engineering and computer science (CS) majors and is designed toimprove retention and graduation rates. The FS2 program is currently in the fourth and finalacademic year and has engaged 470 first-year engineering and computer science students. Thepaper describes the main challenges in implementing these retention initiatives in a small collegesetting and outlines approaches to overcome these challenges.GoalsThe primary goals of this five year
interaction of MEPs and cultural engineering student organizations such asNSBE and the combined impact of their programs, activities, and services warrants furtherinvestigation [16], [18], [19]. Future studies will be conducted to explore how and why the associations present in thisstudy occur at this particular chapter. However, elements that have been identified in theliterature such as participation in social, academic, and professional activities of the chapter, aswell as regional and national conferences, may contribute to outcomes that support persistencesuch as fostering a strong sense of community or “family”, increased self-efficacy, increasedconfidence in technical and non-technical skills and abilities, and a strong social and
regarding engineering? RQ 3: How can strategic collaboration between K12 and industry promote a shift in teacher’s conceptions of engineers and increased self-efficacy in building and delivering engineering curriculum? RQ 4: How do stakeholder characteristics, perceptions, and dynamics affect the likelihood of sustainability in strategic collaborations between K12 and industry stakeholders? How do prevailing institutional and collaborative conditions mediate sustainability?To answer these questions, we will collect a variety of qualitative and quantitative data over thelife of the project. In this paper, we present preliminary findings of the first semester of lessonand activity implementation
such, teachers need to have access to high quality STEM curriculum that isaligned with the academic content standards or to professional development opportunities thatwill enhance their capacity and self-efficacy in engineering if they are to be successful inimplementing the NGSS.Professional development in STEM is available to teachers through a variety of engineering andeducational professional organizations such as ASM, American Society of EngineeringEducation (ASEE), and through various National Science Foundation sponsored programs.17-20One such program is the National Science Foundation’s Research Experience for Teacher (NSF-RET) program.21 This program seeks to provide authentic engineering research experiences forteachers in university
on pedagogy (Fundamental)IntroductionResearch experiences for teachers (RET) programs can provide K-12 teachers with valuable andimpactful professional development opportunities, increase teachers’ self-efficacy and allowthem to gain further mastery in their subject so that they can better translate that knowledge totheir students. At a fundamental level, these types of programs are abbreviated apprenticeships inwhich the teacher trains to become a scientist. After all, if teachers are expected to teach theirstudents how to do science, then they themselves must know how to do science [1].While RET programs exist at universities across the country, the exact structures of the programsand the nature of the actual research experience vary
class projects. Cross-disciplinary experiences betweenengineering and education students have shown potential to help students developcommunication skills [3, 4]. In addition, students develop self-efficacy in their discipline throughparticipating in cross-disciplinary experiences [5]. Cross-disciplinary experiences also helpstudents learn to value expertise outside their area of study and appreciate the limitations andconstraints of information in other fields [6]. Course instructors can also benefit from sharingresponsibility for a course and learning about other disciplines [7].The unfamiliarity of cross-disciplinary activities can lead to frustrations despite their manybenefits. Students often struggle to connect topics from other
MAKE Lab (http://themakelab.wp.txstate.edu), she is currently researching how recurring experiences within these design-based technologies impact self-efficacy and positive attitudes toward failure.Dr. Julie S. Linsey, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Julie S. Linsey is an Assistant Professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technological. Dr. Linsey received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas. Her research area is design cognition including systematic methods and tools for innovative design with a particular focus on concept generation and design-by-analogy. Her research seeks to understand designers’ cognitive processes with the goal
2013, researchers have evaluated FIRST® roboticsprograms (FLL, FTC, FRC) across the state. As Jr. FLL was not implemented in AZ with asignificant number of teams, researchers did not include Jr. FLL in the assessment measures.The purpose of evaluation was to indicate the 1) overall success and program impact on students,teachers and mentors; 2) the impact of hands-on learning to interest students in STEM subjects;3) the impact of developing workplace skills that can be transferred to the classroom; and 4)impact on career choice.In addition to compiling data to understand increasing students' technical skills and self-efficacy,researchers embedded outcomes that are aligned to the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology (ABET
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andengineering. One study explored the relationship between mindfulness and innovation inengineering and found that dispositional mindfulness significantly correlated with innovationself-efficacy among students (Rieken et al, 2017). This study defined innovation self-efficacy asone’s confidence in their ability to innovate. There was another study that demonstratedmindfulness correlated with business skills self-efficacy (i.e. students’ confidence in performingbusiness skills) and the intent to pursue a career in a start-up or entrepreneurship (Rieken, Schar,and Sheppard, 2016). The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether engineering studentswould be receptive to potentially integrating contemplative practices such as mindfulnessmeditation to
details, gave us only a limited understanding ofhow our general GSI and IA population define and learn to practice inclusive teaching. To gainfurther insights into the instructor experience, our larger study includes analyzing survey datathat will provide us with information regarding new instructors’ expectations about theorientation, their initial definitions of inclusive teaching, and their confidence associated withparticular teaching skills as identified by the Teaching Self-Efficacy Inventory [17]. To gain abetter understanding of the instructors’ development of inclusive teaching practices, we willanalyze surveys administered at the start of the term, one week after orientation, and at thebeginning of the following semester. This analysis
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much earlier than those that influencedmen’s decisions. Dick and Rallis also found differential influences for young men as comparedto young women, but these effects were mitigated by math and science preparation. 5 In light of Trusty’s results, Betz and Hackett6 provide an interesting contrast. They foundthat math self-efficacy beliefs among college undergraduates were correlated with choice ofscience major. In this study, women’s self-efficacy for math was statistically lower than that ofmen, and this correlated with choice of major, even though, according to Trusty (above), highschool math course-taking patterns predict women’s selection of a math or science major. Theseand other studies6 explore a diverse range of variables that
2013 iteration of the GI program.4.1 Survey ResultsPre-camp and post-camp surveys were used to examine the impact of the camp. In both surveys,campers were asked to answer questions to measure computer science self-efficacy and to evaluate theiropinions of computer science careers. Computer self-efficacy questions required the campers to rate, ona seven-point likert scale (1 – strongly disagree, 7 – strongly agree), statements such as, “If I get stuck onthe computer, I can get it working again ” and “I find working with computers very easy”. To gage theirthoughts on computer science careers we asked questions such as “Would you want a career in computerscience?” and “What does a typical computer scientist look like?”. Here, we report on
teaching at too fast a pace. In addition, many students felt that theylacked suitable preparation through prior experience, particularly in programming skills anddatabase concepts. 2,3,5,6A few studies found that the students’ ability to integrate into the academic and socialenvironment of the university played an important role in retention.3 The most important factorin this integration was building a peer group support system through peer interaction in theclassroom.5,7,8 In addition, student-faculty relationships were also very important to academicintegration. Students had to feel comfortable interacting with faculty members.2,8 However,Weng et al. found that self-efficacy, or the ability to persist in the face of obstacles, was moreimportant
practices on upper secondary school students’ mathematics self-efficacy was published in the International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education. He also served, for seven years as the Director of the Ph. D in Urban Education program at Cleveland State University. Professor Bagaka’s is a recent African Regional Re- search Fulbright Program scholar to Kenya where he conducted research on teacher beliefs and practices on high school mathematics self-efficacy. Page 24.217.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Assessment Results: Incorporating Case Studies in the
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4: Average number ofmessages per forum, Total number of messages per forum and Number of students participatingin each forum. As education researchers, our aim is to correlate these numbers to grades, andconstructs such as motivation, and self-efficacy, and to study if participation affects learningoutcomes. Each graph shows bars that correspond to numbers of initial posts, responses and totalposts. The instructor suggested that longer threads might mean more student confusion, andgenerally speaking, more activity means more student problems. He commented that he didn’tneed to see all the forums, only the one theoretical (lecture) forum and the four project(assignment) forums were important. The assignments were mutually exclusive, so he
, students’ SB within a university includes their social andacademic belonging. Social belonging relates to positive social interactions with peers, faculty,and campus community, whereas academic belonging relates to academic performance,academic self-efficacy, curriculum motivation, and perceptions of belonging within aprofessional discipline [4, 5]. SB is, therefore, one of the main contributors to students’ academicsuccess, persistence, and overall well-being. The literature reports that the lack of SB isperceived differently by different student groups and is critical for underrepresented students(e.g., first-generation and low socioeconomic status) to persist in college after the first year ofstudy [6]. In engineering, women and
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