who changemajors, and students who are veterans (e.g., [7], [27]). Other work has indicated the importanceof factors such as motivation and belongingness [5], [28]. While those factors are not connectedto a students’ academic record, they are an important reminder of what academic records can andcannot reflect about students. MIDFIELD leaders point to the value of qualitative research tofurther explore the quantitative findings [9]. Similarly, this paper represents the early quantitativestrand of a larger mixed-method project seeking to identify opportunities to support ECEstudents.The past few years have seen the engineering education research community grapple with thepotential contributions of educational data mining students’ academic
Mean St. Dev Mean St. Dev Non-Traditionally Underrepresented Students 3.510 0.426 29.30 3.797 Traditionally Underrepresented Students 3.236** 0.717 28.20 5.448 PMP-Eligible Students 3.161** 0.813 28.02 5.255 PMP Participants 3.343 0.546 28.46 5.782Significance reflects results of an independent samples t-test between non-TU students and TU studentsubpopulations. * p ≤ 0.05, ** p < .01, *** p < .005.Since RQ2 seeks to understand the relationship between participation in the PMP and studentacademic
specificconcentration area, and are expected to draw upon the concept foundations of the corecurriculum.ESIM PedagogyThere has been as much consideration of pedagogy as curriculum in the design of thisprogram. It is anticipated that the program participants will consist primarily ofpractitioners who will have little patience for overly theoretical material that does nothave readily apparent real-world application. The curriculum was designed to reflect thatassumed bias and the teaching methods must follow suit.Duening & Goss 9 March 2008American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest DivisionAs such the ESIM program will specialize in a pedagogy that
, students in the Winter 2012 thought the instructor failed to give them timely feedback(Q4, Question 4), which was caused by serious issues with using Moodle. The universitylearning center was still troubleshooting issues with Moodle at that time, including problemswith students and instructors uploading and returning assignments. The Moodle optional surveywas given to determine how much Moodle affected students’ opinion of the ME 419 course.Some students in Winter 2012 also commented that the instructor needed to more clearly presentthe material by giving more lectures and teaching programming mechanics, which were not theobjectives of the course as outlined in the syllabus. Such comments reflect that some students donot enjoy active learning
minority students and the success of Math Jamin enhancing their academic performance are reflected in the increase in enrollment in transfer-level courses since the program was initiated. Although enrollments in STEM transfer-levelcourses have increased for all student groups and for all STEM areas, the rates of increase aresignificantly higher among minority students, especially for engineering, mathematics, andphysics where minority student enrollment has traditionally been lower due to inadequate highschool preparation in math.The success of Math Jam has prompted Cañada College to institutionalize the program. Beyondthe duration of the three-year Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program grantthat funds the Math Jam, the College will
82 2016 ASEE Rocky Mountain Section ConferenceIn a traditional classroom, the content would be delivered as lecture material. The instructormust reflect on what and how the face-to-face instruction was conducted and determined if it canbe implemented for online delivery by leveraging available e-learning technologies. The videosshould also include demonstrations or simulations by visualizing and applying the abstract mathand engineering ideas to real-world problems. Video recordings on the use of engineering toolssuch as Matlab/Simulink, Labview/Multisim, PhET and Algodoo software, can serve asexamples to demonstrate key concepts found in a particular course and developed for this firstcourse. The video instruction
allowed for self-reflection and assessment. Overall,student feedback about the assignment was positive. In general, students reported that theythought the subject was well designed for the course, but additional information at the beginningof the term about the assignment’s overall goal and end-product would have been helpful.4.7. Global Security and Intelligence CourseIn this junior-level social science course with 29 students, the research process was fullyscaffolded. The course design paralleled that of the three phases of the research process: findingliterature, writing a review of the literature that compares alternative explanations, and thentaking a position and defending it using logic and evidence based on the literature. In order
the explainedcontent, giving the option to repeat the video and the quiz if the student so wishes. In terms of thepractical part, after the students watch the video and take the quiz, they are ready to put intopractice the knowledge acquired using the workstation, the applications and the correspondingpractice board for the course. To support the students in this practical part, step-by-step tutorials(figure 9) have been developed for each practice, which are fully illustrative and realistic, givingthe students the appropriate accompaniment so that the level of confusion is minimum whencreating a circuit. Similarly, to the explanatory videos for the practices, reflective questions(figure 10) have been developed that guide the students in the
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women on the faculty and in Ph.D. graduates.Importantly, however, we do not find conclusive evidence that increasing the proportion ofwomen on the faculty at an institution has a direct relationship to the percentage of Ph.D.sgranted to women at that institution. Indeed, UC Irvine, Michigan and NMSU reflect cross-directional trends with respect to faculty and students. Specifically, Michigan performed Proceedings of the 2010 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 12 extremely well in women faculty, landing in the top spot of their peer group
/Psychology – Human beings are richly endowed intellectually but morally flawed. 5. Neuroscience – Humans possess consciousness and a capacity for intentionality and rational reflection. 6. Mathematics – Mathematical theories correspond with physical reality. 7. Logic – As abstract entities, the laws of logic are universal, invariant, and independent of human conventions. 8. Ethics – Moral absolutes seem intuitively authentic, and moral relativism is self-defeating. 9. Religion – Belief in the divine is a universal phenomenon and religious experience seems intuitively real and consistent with biblical revelation. 10
variety of ways including benefits forstudents and faculty in the program, the client companies, and the Institute as a whole. Similarbroad-based impacts have been noted with other programs.Since the start of the program, over 1570 internships have been offered to some 575 students.An internship is defined as a student working one academic quarter in the program, so onaverage, a student works 2.7 quarters in the program. Figure 2 shows the historical pattern of thenumber of internships offered by the program per quarter. The increase in student participationstarting in early 2005 reflects the expansion of the program to include client companies of allsizes through fee-based arrangements.Another measure of impact is the percentage of a graduating
calculations of theseprojects. Their results reflect that they have understood well all the basic ingredients of themodeling techniques and design of the renewable energy systems. They were also very pleasedwith the approach used to teach them. Our experience with the incorporation of renewableenergy topics in the senior project design courses demonstrated that the abstract knowledgeacquired by the students during their first three years of studies was put into practice. Thestudents in these projects gained extensive knowledge of electronics and mechanical componentsand their characteristics, environmental and structural constraints, separating different aspects ofthe project, such as generator or converter type, its parameters and characteristics
specific learning objectives.Therefore, a multi-touch, blended learning program must:• Support the learner’s ability to recall and repeatedly apply the content in their workenvironment.• Reflect and be tailored to support organizational methodologies, culture and technicalreadiness in order to assure an engaged and productive workforce.Case in Point: Blended LearningA U.S. Government agency developed an integrated approach to contracting training using acombination of web-based training, classroom instruction and practical exercises. In order toengage students across offices, generations and work groups, the agency developed a blendedlearning solution, with 35% of the program deployed through web-based learning and 65%through instructor-led
). improvability and endurance Outcomes are contextualized are not necessarily considered. The program may be in the curriculum and reflect The program situates its developing performance the national, regional, and outcomes in the national, criteria connected to the international conversation on regional, and international
, the simplicity of the project naturally yields the project to be used in awide variety of learning environments and student learners. When implementation does occur, the generatedresults would need to be studied and further modifications would be made to the teaching approach.Eventually, the module and learning materials along with the project will be made highly accessible toeducators through a centralized soft robotic teaching website being developed at Rowan University.AcknowledgementsThis material is based upon work partially supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.2235647. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this material are thoseof the authors(s) and do not necessarily reflect the
could be’, 2019, doi: 10.1007/s11186-019-09345-5.[26] S. Hunziker and M. Blankenagel, ‘Single Case Research Design’, Research Design in Business and Management, pp. 141–170, 2021, doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-34357-6_8.[27] R. H. Horner and J. Ferron, ‘Advancing the Application and Use of Single-Case Research Designs: Reflections on Articles from the Special Issue’, Perspectives on Behavior Science , vol. 45, pp. 5–12, 2021, doi: 10.1007/s40614-021-00322-x.[28] V. S. Athota and A. Malik, ‘Within-Case Qualitative Analysis’, Managing Employee Well-being and Resilience for Innovation, pp. 95–174, 2019, doi: 10.1007/978-3-030- 06188-3_5.[29] I. Halevi Hochwald, G. Green, Y. Sela, Z. Radomyslsky, R. Nissanholtz-Gannot, and O
lecture series program Q7. How did the [component] Mean 3.875 3.333 affect your sense of belonging in the research group? Std. dev. 0.696 0.471PALS surveyThe Patterns of Adaptive Learning Scales (PALS) survey is demonstrated in the literature toaccurately predict the motivation and persistence among students that engage in researchexperiences [15 ,11][19 ,18]. This instrument can assess the perceptions of student’s goals,which include orientations that are classified as mastery (or task), performance-approach, andperformance-avoidance. The revised scales were used in this study to reflect the adaptation of thePALS survey to measure goal
student engagement, critical thinkingskills, and overall learning outcomes. The current study contributed to the discourse on thetransformative potential of hands-on learning in the context of biology education.Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Digital Learning Lab, in one of their articles [26],conceptualized hands-on learning as a cyclical process that encompasses concrete experience,reflective observation, abstract conceptualization, and active experimentation. A few studieshave shown how hands-on learning improves student outcomes, including motivation andengagement, conceptual knowledge, critical thinking, and problem-solving development. Tofurther substantial the ongoing discussions, some studies [27], [28] have found that hands
activities of the course studied?” Our datasuggest that students’ learning of the literacies of HCD is reflected through the different stages oftheir capstone project. Moreover, they used the literacies as tools for honoring the voices andexperiences of the community where they implemented their project.Our study offers implications for engineering education. Foremost, although not directly theobject of this paper, it is impossible to understand learning without considering teaching. In aphenomenographic study, Zoltowski et al.[46] argue that students’ ways of understanding andexperiencing HCD have different degrees of comprehensiveness. Our data show that focalstudents seem to present a comprehensive perspective of HCD: The main issue with the
supported by the National Science Foundation under GrantNumbers 2346868 and 2144698. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendationsexpressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views ofthe National Science Foundation. We would like to express gratitude to Team Y for participatingin this study and for their willingness to open their meetings to us and provide feedback on theinitial drafts of this paper. We would also like to thank Dr. Nicola Sochacka for her insightfulfeedback and discussions as we analyzed our initial data. Finally, we would like to thank themembers of the ENLITE research team who gave feedback to the drafts of this paper.References[1] M. Borrego and L. K. Newswander
judgements), the appreciation of the idea (appreciatingfeedback) and managing the emotions associated with the idea (managing affect). Thus, anappropriate framework for idea acceptance would comprise of the same three areas, justworded to reflect their association to any idea as opposed to feedback literacy. This modelcan be seen in Figure 3. Apprecia�ng the Topic Evalua�ng the Idea Managing Affect Idea AcceptanceFigure 3: The Proposed Idea Acceptance Model. The model contains three dimensions: Appreciating the Topic, Evaluatingthe Idea and Managing Affect. All three dimensions are required to achieve Idea Acceptance.This model is also inspired by the
Communication 161 Total 962Also not reflected in these numbers is the use of our materials by our industrial stakeholders.After working with us as consultants, two of our industrial consultants requested access to thevideos for use in onboarding new employees. We gave them access to our videos, but we werenot able to give them access to our learning management system and the ability to earn badges,since Brightspace usage is restricted to Purdue affiliated users.Table 2 and Figures 1-3 contain selected comprehensive results of the feedback surveys fromstudents in the pilot courses. We chose to present comprehensive results (rather than results byclass, gender, etc.) since our aim for the pilot
overview ofcurrent knowledge, theories, methods, and gaps in the existing research [12]. Topical aspects ofthe research question frame the literature review and provide an understanding of the challengesfacing technical education today. The literature review reflects on and researches the subject andhow the issues contribute to the literature [13]. This literature review begins with knowledgeareas that support improving clean energy educational opportunities for current and futuretechnicians in clean energy industries.Existing literature was reviewed to identify key skills development approaches and strategieswithin the context of the fast-moving and technology-intensive clean energy industry, using athematic approach to consider the following
of representation is the model constructed socially about a punctual element of the social object.This framework has been helpful to research the representations about the health and disease, externaldebt, values transmitted by the massive media, women’s role in society, feminism, moral conduct, theconception of body, or the students’ body seen by their teachers, among others [10]. Nevertheless, the three elements of the SR are organized in a structure that changes through timebecause of periods of crisis related to the individual and group reflection, dialogue between groups, anddifferent life experiences. For Abric [11], this structure has a stable core and a flexible periphery. Thecore is compact and creates a rigid and complex
. We are currently further testing ourhypothesis that gamification and two-way teaching should not simply be the addition of gamerules to course content but to replicate the intrinsic motivation that comes from playing a game.In the near future we plan to further improve our lesson plans to better fit the student’s interestsand background. We also recognize that the scenarios should reflect the current culture and beupdated continually.7. Bibliography1. Temple University General Education Program (2015), http://Gen-Ed.temple.edu2. Wieman C. E. (2014) Large-scale comparison of science teaching methods sends clear message. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (111), 8319-8320.3. Freeman S, et al. (2014) Active learning increases
millennium generation’s propensity for believing in “the world according to the media”, they do understand that hard work is a precursor to success. The Contemporary Theories that came later tried to address some of the questions left partially answered by the Early Theories. For example, how do we awaken the Satisfier drives in our students? How do we connect students to their needs and get them to invest by seeing themselves as capable and believing in attainable satisfaction. We must convince students that positive behaviors are worth the effort, time and self-discipline.Contemporary TheoriesAlthough there are numerous contemporary theories only one directly reflects back to the earlytheories and has a