futurecommunication. This assessment step is a key part of the communication skill set.Given the recognized need to improve communication skills by the engineering educationcommunity as well as curriculum assessments of our industrial engineering (IE) program(described by Potter, et al.19), we have developed an innovative communication course to addressthe skills gap. In this paper, we describe the new course and present assessment results from thefirst offering of this course during the Fall 2007 semester, including skill assessment, self-efficacy data, and qualitative feedback from students. Examples of student work and assessmentprocesses are included. Finally, we describe short term changes to the course and long termimpact expectations.Course content
(recently) sexual minorities within higher educationSTEM programs. Likewise retention research highlighting additional corroborating factors instudent struggles, such as self-efficacy and cognitive attributes4,5,6, has informed the efforts ofsome of these support programs in affective and academic dimensions. Qualitative researchstrands that look at identity and marginalization have documented struggles from the studentperspective, noting how aspects of self can contribute to or come into conflict with one’sprogress and prosperity within a STEM major7,8,9. This research often employs a metaphor of“cultural mismatch” or “identity mismatch” to help extend the empathy and perspective ofpractitioners and those involved in the day to day of STEM in
problem, they must be able to reflect about what their reasonings are inorder to monitor and assess what they do or do not understand, what information is missing, andwhether new information is consistent to their current understanding. Metacognition is a type ofinternal dialogue that must be practiced, much like many other skills. Another important theme, though not emphasized in How People Learn is engagement.Student cognitive engagement includes topics concerning their intrinsic and extrinsic motivation,identification with academics, and self-efficacy. Common sense says if students want to learn,feel they can learn, and feel that others believe they can learn, then they will be more successfulthan those who do not. A great article to be
, but also the environmental and behavioral influences[27]. Based on Bandura’s self-efficacy [28], it considers the factors that may have an impact onand determine performance, including interactions with others and personal achievements, andhow they may contribute. Ultimately, this leads to outcome experiences — the perceived resultsof taking certain actions [26]. It seeks to describe how interventions and activities can enhancepersonal mastery experiences. Furthermore, in the context of computing, it has been shown todescribe not only interests, but also choice goals [27].An overview of the framework, as it pertains to our study, is presented in Figure 1. We considerlearning experiences in terms of professional and technical skill development
, D., & Layton, R. A.(2008). Persistence, engagement, and migration in engineering programs. Journal of EngineeringEducation, (December), 260–278. https://doi.org/10.1002/j.2168-9830.2008.tb00978[5] Sun, J. C. Y., & Rueda, R. (2012). Situational interest, computer self-efficacy and self-regulation: Their impact on student engagement in distance education. British Journal ofEducational Technology, 43(2), 191–204. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8535.2010.01157.x[6] Guthrie, J. T., Wigfield, A., Barbosa, P., Perencevich, K. C., Taboada, A., Davis, M. H., &Tonks, S. (2004). Increasing reading comprehension and engagement through concept-orientedreading instruction. Journal of Educational Psychology, 96(3), 403–423.https://doi.org
betterprepared for the challenges and obstacles a senior design capstone entails [2]. This idea is supported byTsenn et al., who explored how self-efficacy relies on motivation and outcome expectation and correlatedmotivation to the number of times students spent on the project [8]. Bracken et al. looked at the perceivedvalue of the project, relevance to engineering discipline and tasks, and the use of "cool" technologies asfactors that students considered in the project selection process. This point again touches on the idea thatby bringing together motivation and interest in the project, the learning experience, responsiveness tochallenges, and overcoming obstacles will improve throughout the project. Therefore, through these twomechanisms of interest
them as diversity tokens. They emphasized the importance of social and structuralsupport to promote self-efficacy and retention for women of color. The bearings of thoseidentities cut across other interactional experiences, such as teamwork, in which students wereexpected to assert themselves and navigate unfamiliar team dynamics.Teamwork was often studied through the lens of student behaviors. Using an educationalanthropologist approach, Tonso (2006a) studied how the campus culture (categorized by studenttypes – nerds, Greeks, and academic achievers) influenced teamwork in an engineering collegeof a state-funded university in the Midwest. By observing team behaviors in situ, Tonso foundthat non-design engineering classes promote social
personalities and psyches. Adding to the mix is thatmany programs have a required co-op rotation that adds an entire range of influences, many ofwhich are unforeseen and out of the control of the engineering programs.Co-op education has been shown to have numerous effects on students. Co-op education hasbeen shown to have an academic effect, with co-op students getting higher grades in somecourses, particularly in those based on soft skills [1]. Co-op education has also been shown tohelp in self-efficacy, particularly in work-related activities and has also shown to have a positiveeffect on retention [2]. Co-op education has also been shown to have a positive effect on startingsalaries (nearly 10%) [3]. The goal of this study is to gauge the effect of
opportunity asurvey was developed and implemented at the end of the spring 2007 semester. The surveyasked the students to answer a common set of questions, eight questions for each of the sixlanguages. Those questions included perceptions of relevance and perceptions of effects on self-confidence (also known as “self-efficacy”). The survey also asked the students whether, or not,they would recommend each programming language for use with future students. Although thesurveys were anonymous, standard demographic data was requested, and that has allowed simplecomparisons to be made not only between programming languages but also to compare theattitudes of women and minorities to those of white males (for this study, the responses ofwomen and minorities
would be“too burdensome,” although no evidence for this is provided. Because there was nostatistical analysis, the results were inconclusive.Hall and Vance8 investigate the impact that self-explanation has on student performance aswell as self-efficacy in a statistics course. Students in the experimental groupcollaboratively solved problems in teams of three, providing self-explanations of thereasoning behind their answers to one another. Students in a control group solved the sameproblems individually. This study showed that students who generated collaborativeself-explanation perform significantly better at solving problems than students who did not.What these studies have in common is their use of summative performance assessments toshow the
’ tendencies topersist and feelings of self-efficacy 26. Similarly, increasing students’ persistence and therebytime-on-task has been found to increase the quality of writing 27.Our conception of portfolio as a learning portal was guided by our earlier work in helpingstudents learn about their development processes during software development 15,16,18,19. As partof that project, we had the students establish collect effort data 28 related to their developmentactivities. These data were posted in their design notebooks. This captured much of the student’sdevelopment habits, and allowed us to construct activities requiring students to comment on theefficacy of their development behavior. This reflective act was part of the postmortem requiredon every
’ Sense of Belonging: A Key to Educational Success for AllStudents. (2nd ed.). Routledge, 2018.[5] C. Gillen-O’Neel, “Sense of belonging and student engagement: A daily study of first- andcontinuing-generation college students,” Research in Higher Education, vol. 62, no. 1, pp. 45-71,Feb. 2021.[6] M. Bong and E.M. Skaalvik, “Academic self-concept and self-efficacy: How different arethey really?,” Educational Psychology Review, vol. 15, pp. 1-40, Jan. 2003.[7] D.W. Johnson, R.T. Johnson and K.A. Smith. Active Learning: Cooperation in the CollegeClassroom. Edina, MN: Interaction Book Company, 1991.[8] M.J. Baker, “Collaboration in collaborative learning,” Interaction Studies: Social behaviourand communication in biological and artificial systems
the OR: exploring use of augmented reality to support endoscopic surgery,” in Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences, in IMX ’22. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, 2022, pp. 267–270. doi: 10.1145/3505284.3532970.[30] T. Khan et al., “Understanding Effects of Visual Feedback Delay in AR on Fine Motor Surgical Tasks,” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 29, no. 11, pp. 4697–4707, Nov. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2023.3320214.[31] M. Menekse, S. Anwar, and S. Purzer, “Self-Efficacy and Mobile Learning Technologies: A Case Study of CourseMIRROR,” in Self-Efficacy in Instructional Technology Contexts, C. B. Hodges, Ed., Cham
designated Title III institution, CSULA has an historic commitment and record ofservice in meeting the educational needs of Los Angeles’ culturally diverse communities.CSULA student body is 53% Hispanic, 22% Asian-American, 15.6% White, 9% African-American, and 0.4% American Indian. As seen by many other minority-serving institutions,students from underrepresented minority groups usually encounter significant learning barriersthat prevent them from achieving their academic goals. As many of our students are firstgeneration college students in their families, lack of family support usually leads to lesspersistence and low self-efficacy in learning. In addition, poor financial condition imposesanother significant barrier to student learning. An
workforce. The structure ofthe class projects will include goal setting behavior for the projects and intercultural relations.Research has shown that goal setting behavior significantly enhances the participant'sperformance 17 and plays an instrumental role in improving the student’s self-efficacy andintrinsic interest in the task. In addition the course design allows for the creation of specifictasks, roles, and learning goals. Specifically, each student is assigned tasks and is part of a team-directed management structure; this structure includes the election of leaders for each sub-teamand the team at large. In addition, tasks are divided up into smaller focused tasks with frequentreporting requirements, and specific questions that explore
studyparticipants were 18 years or above and in their first year of engineering education. In addition toparticipant demographics, the survey collected data about participants’ sense of belonging,engineering identity, and perceived stress.The survey incorporated a measure of a sense of belonging [11] that assessed two constructs:three items each on general belonging in the engineering major and belonging in the engineeringclassroom.The assessment of engineering identity in the survey included a professional identity scale [14]that is based on social cognitive theory focusing on self-efficacy beliefs and outcomeexpectations, as proposed by [20]. This scale comprised three constructs, each with three itemsrelated to recognition by others and interest, and
is likelyhighly dependent on the foundation they have brought to the course. More general academicskills and attributes such as motivation, self-regulation, self-efficacy, sense of belonging andmindset also influence how students engage with the course.Existing research demonstrates the importance of math and physics preparation to studentsuccess in mechanics [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]. Problem solving skill is also clearly an importantcomponent to success [5]. The correlation of spatial abilities to broader measures of success andretention for engineering majors in general is well-established [6]. However, existing studiesexploring the importance of spatial abilities to success in mechanics courses find mixed results.Many fundamental concepts
Laura Hirshfield is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Michigan. She received her B.S. from the University of Michigan and her Ph.D. from Purdue University, both in chemical engineering. She then transitioned into the engineering education field by completing a post-doctoral appointment at Oregon State University investigating technology-aided conceptual learning. She is currently doing research on self-efficacy in project-based learning.Amanda Siebert-Evenstone, University of Wisconsin - MadisonGolnaz Arastoopour, University of Wisconsin - Madison Golnaz Arastoopour is a Ph.D. student in Learning Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before becoming interested in education, Golnaz
self-efficacy expectations4,5. A keyin reducing the marginalization of minority students and women on college campuses seems toreside in the active examination of racism and sexism by all students. Many studies haveexamined the effect of liberal arts education alone on students’ attitudes with regard to diversity.Liberal arts education has been associated with a greater regard for civil rights and increasedacceptance of issues related to racial tolerance6,7,8,9,10. Similarly, students who progress throughundergraduate education in general have been shown to adopt less conservative and traditionalsocial views, and gain more liberal ones11,12
beneficial because they help you:-make strategic decisions, plan programming, and identify gaps in the programming,-clarify and quickly communicate your plan,-demonstrate to stakeholders you have thought things through, and-make the case for funding. 4When working in the area of DEI in particular, developing a clear plan for yourinitiative and identifying intended outcomes can hold you accountable to yourvision for change and help you demonstrate that you’re doing what you hoped.For example, say you have a Bridge program for first generation students inengineering. Hopefully you have an intention behind this program, likely toimprove students self-efficacy and/or
conducted several investigations on the influence of non-traditional teaching methods (e.g. service learning, project-based learning) on student motivation and self-efficacy. He is also PI on several projects investigating the degradation of biomedical materials in physiological environments. Dr. Harding presently serves as associate editor of the on-line journal Advances in Engineering Education, and served as chair of the Materials Division and vice-chair of the ERM Division of ASEE. Dr. Harding received the 2010 ASEE Pacific Southwest Section Outstanding Teaching Award and the 2008 President’s Service Learning Award for innovations in the use of service learning at Cal Poly. In 2004 he was named a Templeton Research
aligned with their STEM career). PIC is a core concept ofidentity research, emphasizing that when individuals perceive a close connection between theirself-concept and their career goals, they are more likely to maintain motivation, interest andpersist in that domain, even when they experience difficulty [22]. Further, the data suggest thatPIC leads to higher sense of belonging to the University and it’s members. Kim, London andcolleagues also demonstrate that interest in a STEM career and sense of belonging in one’sUniversity both predicted STEM self-efficacy among students (confidence in one’s ability tomanage STEM academic tasks). STEM self-efficacy in turn predicted higher STEM achievementin classes through students’ second year of college
real-world problems. When students work on real-world problems,they are more motivated because real-world problems usually have proximal and tangible goalswhich often lead to higher self-efficacy and control among students. The pedagogy in this courseachieved the goal because the real-life-based design project and related activities were implicatedin personally meaningful tasks.On the other hand, students were not highly motivated by being able to connect information fromdisparate contexts and make reflective judgments through critical thinking. Nowadays, engineersare required to be flexible and creative with a good understanding of human-centered design andan ability to work in multidisciplinary contexts. In school, design and other
. Cousins also coordinates the department’s National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experiencefor Undergraduates (REU) Site BME CUReS Cancer weekly summer seminars. Her academic interests includeimplementing and measuring psychosocial interventions that have been demonstrated to improve success for targeted at-risk populations, such as social-belongingness, growth mindset, and self-efficacy. Ms. Cousins holds a Master of Arts inHigher, Adult, and Lifelong Education (HALE) from Michigan State University, and a Bachelor of Science in Biologyfrom Washington State University. Her work has been recognized through staff excellence awards in 2019, 2011, and2008, and the engineering outstanding first-year group facilitator award in 2017. She has worked
semester that ratedconfidence to determine self efficacy improvement. A similar method could be of use in thefuture to build upon the current survey questions that aimed to gauge student understandingthrough rating their level of knowledge. Self efficacy would be a similar, but perhaps moremeaningful measurement, as students would be able to more accurately self-report this on asurvey. It would also provide a great deal more insight to have numbers that can be compared,and thus provide a more accurate sense of video influence on student learning.In addition to the more qualitative, opinion based data provided by the survey, it may be helpfulto incorporate assessments that more directly illustrate how the videos improve understanding ofconcepts
following research question and sub-questions: How does the experience of learning differ between labatorials and traditional labs? a. How do social interactions in the lab impact the student learning experience? b. What elements of labs play a role in providing a satisfying learning experience? c. In what ways do labatorials affect student perspectives on physics? d. In what ways does students’ self-efficacy evolve through physics labs? e. In what ways do labatorials and traditional labs differ in promoting the development of conceptual understanding? The mixed methods design involves concurrent qualitative and quantitative datacollection, which was integrated at the data interpretation phase of the research
value of exerting effort. Construction Management faculty can supportstudents’ motivational beliefs and academic achievement through the use of instructionalpractices that remind students about the important role that effort plays in success [37].There are three main cognitive motivational theories: goal theory, expectancy value theory, andattribution theory that apply to students.In goal theory, motivation is induced by the discrepancy between their current condition asstudents and their future condition (i.e., goal) of being a practicing professional. Self-efficacy, orone’s ability to succeed in a specific situation, plays a significant role in goal theory. A student’sgoals should be challenging but not be perceived as beyond their capability
planned and cyclicallyadapted to the attainment of personal goals” [16, p. 14]; Self-Regulation Theory structuresattention prior to, during, and after performance into three phases. As in design, these phases arecyclical, where information and thoughts shape behavior proactively and reactively [21].Forethought encompasses activities and thought in preparation for a task, such as planning, goalsetting, and non-cognitive factors like self-efficacy. In performance, attention is given to thequality of execution by self-control and focusing strategies, as well as record keeping. The finalphase, self-reflection, includes judgment and reaction elements that assess and explain outcomes,as well as shape future attempts.Self-regulation has been recommended
about the important role that effort plays in success [37].There are three main cognitive motivational theories: goal theory, expectancy value theory, andattribution theory that apply to students.In goal theory, motivation is induced by the discrepancy between their current condition asstudents and their future condition (i.e., goal) of being a practicing professional. Self-efficacy, orone’s ability to succeed in a specific situation, plays a significant role in goal theory. A student’sgoals should be challenging but not be perceived as beyond their capability. If individuals mustexpend a great amount of time and effort to accomplish a goal, then they are more likely tochoose an activity that they feel capable of performing successfully and
Academic Integrity into Engineering CoursesAbstractThis study examined how a professional development workshop affected faculty members’perspectives about incorporating academic integrity into their engineering courses. Embedded inthe context of a new initiative at a large Mid-Atlantic University that aims to enhanceengineering students’ understanding of academic integrity and professional ethics, the workshopfeatured three aspects: 1) enhancing faculty members’ self-efficacy in teaching academicintegrity and professional ethics; 2) facilitating their development of instructional strategies forteaching integrity and ethics; and 3) supporting their classroom implementation of instructionalplans. Seven faculty participants were interviewed after