Conference Session

Strategies and/or Approaches to Engage Students in Agricultural, Biological, or Similarly Named Programs

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maryam Bigonah, Auburn University; Fatemeh Jamshidi, Auburn University; Aparana Pant, Auburn University; Daniela Marghitu, Auburn University

Tagged Divisions

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division (BAE)

education cansignificantly enrich the learning journey for students by providing immediate assistance,swift access to information, and customized learning materials tailored to their requirements[22]. The utilization of chatbots has been evidenced to enhance students’ engagement,elevate learning outcomes, and streamline administrative processes within educationalinstitutions [23]. The transformative potential of chatbots in educational settingsunderscores the value of integrating this technology to benefit students. Our futureendeavors will focus on harnessing chatbot technology to enhance student engagement andimprove learning outcomes. We plan to collaborate with educators and students to codesignchatbot functionalities that cater to diverse

Conference Session

Student Division Technical Session 1: Student Experiences and Support

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lorna Treffert, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Courtney June Faber, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Isabel Anne Boyd, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Tagged Divisions

Student Division (STDT)

faculty about how the students contributed. In future work, we hope toobserve both the main Team Y meetings and the student project meetings. As we conduct moreobservations, we will look for more instances when the assertion of power-over and the sharingof knowledge with the students helps to bolster the students’ ability to engage in researchactivities. We will also look to see how the student researchers share their unique insights andcontribute to the team’s research efforts. We plan to conduct ethnographic interviews of thestudents and their faculty advisors. These interviews will allow us to capture how the studentsand faculty made meaning out of the expressions of power within their team’s culture. Inparticular, we want to understand how

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Campbell R. Bego, University of Louisville; Tessa Withorn, University of Louisville; Judith Danovitch, University of Louisville; Angela Thompson P.E., University of Louisville; Elisabeth Thomas, University of Louisville; Gabriel Ethan Gatsos, University of Louisville; Alvin Tran, University of Louisville

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

) – the perception of negative effects of ChatGPT on an individual level as well as a societal level, e.g., “Using ChatGPT is harmful to people.”The trust and ethics items (fully listed in the results section) were written by the research teamfor this study. Each trust question was framed as an objective judgement, as follows: “What isthe likelihood, on a scale of 1-100 (where 1 is extremely unlikely and 100 is extremely likely),that ChatGPT will return a correct answer to the following prompt?” The ChatGPT prompts werebased on planned applications in the first-year engineering course as well as potentialapplications in the engineering profession. Researchers intentionally selected tasks for whichChatGPT was unlikely to return a

Conference Session

Innovating Inclusivity: Rethinking Access and Empowerment in STEM Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Hug, Colorado Evaluation and Research Consulting; Raena Cota, New Mexico State University; Ruth Constansa Torres Castillo, New Mexico State University; Enrico Pontelli, New Mexico State University; Adan Maximiliano Delval, New Mexico State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

, ournext steps are to develop an action plan that gives voice to counternarratives and brings truthsabout student experiences to the forefront of departmental decision making and climate work. Inthis way, we will create social justice action from the applied research effort we report at ASEE.Some possible mechanisms for creating dialog with faculty in computing at the universityinclude a) sharing current counternarratives with faculty with opportunity for discussion in afaculty meeting, b) proposing communications changes to departmental staff and leadership toclarify opportunities in the CS department, and c) developing student climate survey instrumentsthat relate to concerns demonstrated in counternarratives. We recognize issues of power

Conference Session

Laboratory and Research Skill Development

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Prpich, University of Virginia; Natasha Smith, University of Virginia; Caroline Elizabeth Crockett, University of Virginia; Anukriti Shrestha, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

that did not receive training. We plan to complete future work tocompare cohorts with and without training more rigorously to see if we still observe the impacton troubleshooting ability.Furthermore, during the hands-on exercise students demonstrated use of a variety of differenttroubleshooting strategies, suggesting that the teaching modules had an impact on learning.Additionally, the hands-on exercise revealed information about the students’ level ofunderstanding and comprehension, suggesting its potential as an alternative to written exams forassessing conceptual knowledge and lab proficiency. These findings suggest the efficacy ofstructured training modules in improving students' troubleshooting skills and conceptualunderstanding

Conference Session

MECH - Technical Session 9: Advanced Mechanical Engineering Topics

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samuel James Murphy, The University of Iowa; Martell Cartiaire Bell, The University of Iowa; Rachel Vitali, The University of Iowa; Jae-eun Russell

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

work and find classes tobe more useful [3]. ESE is also integral for the entry into engineering programs and thepersistence to continue [4]. EJ is an individual’s capacity to determine and execute tasks that willhave a predicted outcome [5, 6]. When engineers work in the real world, many times projectswill require the engineer to come up with solutions which cannot be found inside of codes ormanuals. When following a structural engineering firm, the engineers were able to analyzebuilding plans and make changes to designs based on previous knowledge [7]. An engineer maybe an expert when using codes and references but cannot be a competent engineer if lacking EJ[8]. During an engineering student’s curriculum, EJ should be developed incrementally

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 3

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Umer Farooq, Texas A&M University; Saira Anwar, Texas A and M University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

practices (student-focused), student-teacher interaction (teacher-led),student-teacher interaction (student-led), instructional technology, and potential cognitivedemand. For this study, we will consider the first two dimensions of the protocol, which focuseson teaching methods and activities. We plan to observe each class at least four times in thesemester. In addition to TDOP protocol dimensions, we will collect field notes to report anyover-arching incident or activity in the classroom. Observation training is a mandatory requirement for using the TDOP protocol [33]. Thetraining process involves a thorough review and discussion of selected codes. For this purpose,observers will be trained on the protocol using existing recorded accounts of

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juan Alvarez, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Olga Mironenko, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Yang Victoria Shao, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

time-management skills.Moreover, our findings suggest a potential bias related to instructors regarding the sufficiency ofmeeting time, indicating that longer durations may potentially enhance student comfort. However,it contradicts with students reporting satisfaction in covering all topics of interest duringmeetings. Additionally, the instructor with the shortest meeting duration noted that often studentsfinished discussions before the allocated time ended.For the next phase of our work, we intend to shift the mentoring meetings to a small group format.Additionally, we plan to distribute surveys once more to gather feedback from students.In the broader scope, our long-term strategy includes expanding the study by incorporating morefaculty

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer L Bonniwell, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Richard W. Kelnhofer, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

of engagement leads to deeper learning [10]. • Don’t limit the content to the current course – pull concepts from prerequisite courses. • Aim for two or more per week – students tend to ask for more as they get used to the Rapid Reviews.Next StepsThe authors plan to continue to refine their use of Rapid Reviews in the following ways: • Qualify the impact of Rapid Reviews based on a survey of the students. The authors acknowledge that quantified results would be better. However, MSOE is a small private institution that is primarily focused on undergraduate engineering education. Therefore, the population size for gleaning information from quantified survey results is limited. • Form a list of best

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division (SWED) Technical Session #2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elise Deitrick, Codio; Maura Lyons, Codio; Joshua Richard Coughlin Stowell Ball, Codio

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Division (SWED)

studentcompletion of tasks [21].In computer science, we often ask students to build larger programming projects over the span ofdays or weeks. As teachers, we know that students do not always have the skills to project andtime manage themselves well on these larger projects. Additionally, we know that trying toestimate how long it takes to plan, program, and test software projects is hard [22] and evensoftware organizations in industry find it challenging to deliver software on time [23]. To helpscaffold students on these larger projects, teachers often break projects up into milestones orseparate gradable deliverables.Benefits of Milestones in Programming ProjectsBy breaking these larger projects into distinct milestone assignments, teachers can more

Conference Session

Transfer issues between 2-year colleges and 4-year Engineering and Engineering Technology programs 3

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth A Adams P.E., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Gabriel Cuarenta-Gallegos, Cuesta College

Tagged Divisions

Two-Year College Division (TYCD)

the project as a paid researchinternship and the community college faculty instructor who mentored the project was alsocompensated. The current grant is due to expire in May 2025. There are plans to re-apply foranother cycle of three years, in addition the college is exploring ways to institutionalize differentcomponents of the program with an emphasis on finding funding sources for undergraduate studentresearch experiences. One of the major programs that will be utilized to help with the fundingendeavor is the MESA (Mathematics, Engineering, Science, Achievement) program that has beenrecently codified into California Education Code, SB 444. For students that don’t qualify forMESA, there are opportunities to utilize funds from other state

Conference Session

Charting Inclusivity: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Technology in Engineering and Computing Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tyrine Jamella Pangan, Tufts University; Kristen B Wendell, Tufts University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

our applications of the categories. After three rounds of codebookiteration, the exact match between the two raters’ codes is 73% and the Cohen’s Kappa score is0.46, indicating moderate agreement (Blackman, N. J. & Koval, J. J., 2000). For the resultsreported in this work-in-progress paper, the raters came to consensus on all the turns of talkwhere our codes disagreed. For future work, we plan to continue to refine the codebook until wereach a Cohen’s Kappa score of 0.8. The final codebook will then be applied to the remaining 26transcripts. Findings Our analysis allowed us to characterize two kinds of marginalizing moves (interrupting and taking up disproportionate space) and three kinds of inclusive moves (encouraging sharing

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 20

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emily Buten, University of Michigan; Jack Boomer Perry, University of Michigan; Cindy Wheaton, University of Michigan; Aaron W. Johnson, University of Michigan

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

the center of the diagramrather than placing it within a specific category. Clearly, participants believe it fits in more than onesection of the activity system.However, there were a few professional skills that were connected to specific aspects of project teams.Public speaking was repeatedly connected to presentations that were required either for competition orinternal review. Meanwhile, organizational management was connected with organizing subteam workand planning meetings for project team members and networking was connected to working with industrypartners and alumni. All of these aspects provide insight into how specific professional skills are beingdeveloped on project teams.Some of the elements of project teams that students

Collection

2024 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

Authors

Daniela Galatro; Ya-Huei Chin; Bradley Saville

(assumptions, calculation procedures, and carbon footprint). We believe that this revamped version of the course will guide students to employprincipals and a framework for design of sustainable chemical processes. Furthermore, as thefuture chemical engineering workforce must design and enforce sustainable chemical processes,we believe this approach enhances students’ career readiness. The effectiveness of this revampedversion will be assessed with a testing plan that includes (i) different surveys conducted at the endof CHE430 (in the following semester), where students will qualitatively assess their perceptionsabout the effectiveness of CHE334 in bridging CHE324 and CHE430; (ii) and longitudinallygathering data from deliverables (both in

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2024 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

Authors

William Craine; Libby Osgood P.Eng.

register but did not complete theregistration." As noted by Weatherton, Mayes, and Villanueva-Perez, learning disabilities andADHD can have an impact on student’s concentration and planning, which could make acquiringacademic accommodations inaccessible in the first place [5].Thirdly, 25% of participants who need academic accommodations (n1–3=59) indicated that theydid not have an advocate, as shown in Table 1. One participant asked, “Does myself count?”Alternatively, 75% feel they have an advocate, with 12% being supported by a friend or partnerand 44% receiving support from a parent, guardian, or close relative. Lastly, 51% identified theircase worker as an advocate, and one graduate student also identified “supervisors andprofessors” as

Collection

2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Douglas K. Ludlow

thermodynamic properties of fluids; and heat effects of processes.The video needs to present factual information and descriptive techniques.Not only will you benefit from participating in the process to produce a short video covering somethermodynamics principle, in the future other students will have access to the short YouTube videos viaBlackboard so that the current and future students can benefit and learn in the asynchronous manner on an“as needed” basis.As you plan your video I would suggest that you go to the site: http://classes.mst.edu/chemeng141/There you can view the videos prepared by ChBE 141 students previously to get some sense what can bedone. Hopefully yours will be even more creative.Project specifics: 1) By “YouTube” format it is

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Kenneth E. Dudeck; Joseph A. Ranalli

achieving planned student outcomes.The faculty of each course then prepares a Course Assessment Review report that usesMEGE data (both current and previous years) to critically reflect upon the results of anyprevious corrective actions or propose new changes to the instruction of the course for the Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova Universitynext offering. This is a small course specific CQI loop that is completed every semester,for every course offered in the GE program.The individual MEGE data for each course are then mapped into the entire program gridto see how the all the course specific student performance indicators meet the entireprogram outcomes. This is done at each campus/option location, and also

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Nisha Kondrath; Mark A. Jupina

projects instituted in this manner motivated the students to consider the big picture while designing the individual circuits, collaborating with their team members, and effectively contributing to peer-to-peer learning.III. Faculty Experiences & Challenges We believe that the active-learning approach implemented using the flipped-lab format shows promise in enabling the students to become better “self-starters,” so as to better motivate themselves and their fellow classmates to take a more active role in their education. Oddly enough, that is also the most challenging part of this experience. The lab modules had to be well planned and organized with clear expectations of individual responsibilities. Getting the students to

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Linda Laird; Ye Yang

ofintegrating creative thinking skills with cutting-edge technology.”12 Recent liberal arts graduatesalso have a higher unemployment and underemployment rate (60%) versus engineering (25%)or math and computing (35%)13 and as such, are a significant pool of potential talent. In this paper, we present the design, organization, and plans for an 18-month SwE-LAMaster’s Degree program, for academically talented domestic Liberal Arts graduates to increasethe number of highly skilled and talented software engineers in the workplace, especiallywomen. It is built on our existing MS in SwE and support services, with extensions andadaptations of various critical components including a mini-course (for recruiting), a summerbridge program, an on-going seminar

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Peter Mark Jansson; Amal Kabalan

experience was made by the department after Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova Universityreview by a faculty-led sub-committee (ECE Design Working group) of the department. Thisteam shared its findings and made recommendations to the entire faculty at one of its ABETcontinuous improvement planning retreats in 2014 to convert our written/oral communicationscourse into a class that still focused on these aspects of engineering communication but in thecontext of multiple, small design projects and assignments. The charge given to the coursedesigners was to assure that the students experienced: • Immersion in the design process, including iteration. • Introduction to functional decomposition (using real

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Stephen N. Kuchnicki

examination. This was intended as a benefit for the students in the course, reducing theknowledge base over which they needed to study. Even so, there is also a benefit to the instructor– with less material on each examination, the questions themselves can be more targeted to aspecific course outcome. Thus, mapping student responses to exam problems over to learningoutcomes for the course becomes an easier task. Further, the instructor is more able to respond togaps in knowledge exposed by early examinations and may plan to test outcomes with a weakerperformance more frequently. The instructor is also able to reallocate class time, if necessary, inresponse to weaker performances seen on course outcomes.ConclusionsThis paper has discussed three

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Colin Neill; Joanna DeFranco; Amanda Neill

”. Various lesson plans [be] made available [to] that tutor…(so he) could best choosefrom that ….. tailored toward the course material…”Based on a qualitative analysis of these student interviews the following changes were made to thepeer tutoring model for the summer section of the same course: 1. Changed name of “peer tutor” to “keystone” in all course documentation. 2. Added more explicit instructions for the Keystone in the syllabus to describe the role, benefits, and activities of the keystone as well as describe the guidance that is available from the instructor. 3. Created “learning (or technical) notes” that will be shared by the instructor with the keystone at the beginning of each week. 4. Created an additional

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2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Lethia Jackson; Courtney Lamar; Quincy Brown; Velma Latson

workshop to disseminate curriculum teachers to practice or develop lesson plans for integrating themodules that high school teachers (teaching primarily AP technologies for classroom usage.computer science and introductory programming courses) can A. Our Modelimplement in the classroom that provide students with anexposure to the versatility and applicability of the The first phase of our model focuses on helping teachers toprogramming skills they have learned throughout the school learn the technologies in an active learning environment.year. Educators can use the modules from the workshop to They participate in

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2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Holly T. Frederick

, a the topic of erosion and also brings information from thephased project has been developed that carries students course into the topic by considering different characteristics ofthrough the phases of learning so that they are ready to address soils and how they may be relevant. The second phase alsothe engineering design problems creatively and with asks students to write an action plan to address the topic ofdeveloping confidence. interest. They must move toward analysis of the concern in a The handout that describes the project is provided with the more real and tangible way by presenting suggestions ofcourse syllabus and the work is carried

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2012 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Mauro J. Caputi; Tiffany LaBozzetta; Michelle Llanos; Mary Kate Sirianni; Necol Habib

format are to simulate design work under tightdeadlines, encourage efficiency by planning task assignments ahead of time, stimulate effectiveuse of Team human resources, and ensure fair and balanced writing duties among all Teammembers. Examples of past projects are saved each semester and put on display during the Labmeetings so that Teams can examine and draw ideas from them, and hopefully improve upontheir past performance. Team Aid is arranged so that each week a different Lab Section Team arrives 10 minutesearly to retrieve materials, tools, and other items out of storage for that day’s work. They also 2stay 10 minutes late to shop-vac the power tools room, put all tool bins

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2012 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Yacob Astatke; Craig Scott; Kemi Ladeji-Osias; Grace Mack

implemented during the summer time, theFOM online course can be offered to high school students who plan to attend MSU School ofEngineering during the Fall and Spring semesters. This will allow MSU School of Engineeringto recruit students who have the right math skills before they start taking courses on campus. Forthose students who don’t have the right math skills (i.e. not ready for Calculus I), but still want toattend MSU School of Engineering, the online course can be used to help them acquire thoseskills during the summer period before they attend MSU. The results of the evaluation forms that are completed by the students at the end of eachsummer session are also very encouraging. The students indicate that the lessons are verythorough

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Rajarajan Subramanian; Grady F. Mathews IV

most important motivation for teaching online. Public institutions continue to bethe most likely to believe that online education is critical to their long-term strategy.Approximately one-third of baccalaureate institutions consider online to be critical, a rate abouthalf that of other institutional types such as associate degree institutions.The percent of higher education institutions that currently have a Massive Open Online Courses(MOOC) increased from 2.6 percent to 5.0 percent over the past year. The majority ofinstitutions (53 percent) report they are still undecided about MOOCs, while under one-third (33percent) say they have no plans for a MOOC. Only 23 percent of academic leaders believe thatMOOCs represent a sustainable method for

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2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Nicholas Monsu; Kevin Timko; William Caracciolo

winds that could potentially move the rig and damage the drilling equipment.After the oil rig motion problem was solved, drilling could be planned. The drillingprocess uses a drill bit that pumps water down through the pipe, and as the bit chewsfurther into the ground, the water exits the bottom of the pipe. This water that is nowtravelling up the shaft, outside of the pipe but inside the newly drilled hole, carries theremoved soil out of the well being drilled and onto the ocean floor. A blowout preventeris installed during the process to control the pressure build up in the drill lines and releasethe pressure when necessary to prevent an uncontrollable rush of gas or oil to the surfaceof the water. Copyright ASEE Middle

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2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Scott Bronikowski; Christopher Lowrance; Kenneth Viall

todetermine their own level of success in our courses. Certainly, we strongly encourage andmotivate our students to devote time to studying outside the classroom and offer our personalassistance if they encounter any problems. However, if they fail to take advantage of theseopportunities, then their grade will accurately reflect their level of commitment to the course.For future study, we plan to continue the longitudinal study with the selected courses and assessthe trends on final exam grades and instructor time. Our institutional survey results of allstudents will be analyzed with targeted questions related to the use of cadet time, theeffectiveness of the quiz method, and student preference for the method versus traditionalhomework assignments

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2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Kalyan Mondal

April 29-30, 2011, Farmingdale State College, SUNYmany functions (resp. direct port program lines) are actually recoded by direct port programming(resp. using functions). We have not mechanized the speed of coding in this assessment yetwhich is planned for the future.3. Conventional Timing versus Interrupt Based Designs: This outcome is assessed by providingstudents a functional program that uses “delay” functions and conventional looping techniqueand asking them to convert it using real time interrupt or some other appropriate clock-timerbased interrupt mechanism. Many students find this code conversion challenging and first timeassessment results in poor score. The score improves by the time of final examination afterstudents have done