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Understanding Diverse and Atypical Engineering Students: Lessons Learned From Community College Transfer Scholarship Recipients

Conference Session
NSF Grantees Poster Session I
Collection
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Melani Plett, Seattle Pacific University; Angelina Lane, Seattle Pacific University; Donald M. Peter P.E., Seattle Pacific University
Tagged Topics
Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session
Class and Social Integration in Higher Education." Dissertation, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities. 2013. http://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/1544087. Litzler, Elizabeth, and Cate Samuelson. "How Underrepresented Minority Engineering Students Derive a Sense of Belonging from Engineering". Proceedings of the 2013 Annual Conference of the American Society of Engineering Education. Atlanta, Georgia. 2013. https://peer.asee.org/19688.8. Fisher, Walter. "Three Strategies for Improving the Graduation of Engineering Minorities". Proceedings of the 2005 Annual Conference of the American Society of Engineering Education. Portland, Oregon. 2005. https://peer.asee.org/150449. Mills-Henry, Ishara, Bryant, Reginald, Daily
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The Relationship Between Course Assignments and Academic Performance: An Analysis of Predictive Characteristics of Student Performance

Conference Session
Engineering Economy Division Technical Session 3
Collection
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Deborah Ann Pedraza, Texas Tech University; Mario G. Beruvides P.E., Texas Tech University
Tagged Topics
ASEE Diversity Committee
Tagged Divisions
Engineering Economy
in their paper that portions of variance inacademic performance can be explained through different measures of effort and motivation onthe part of the student. They, further, state that these measures are true regardless ofsocioeconomic differences in the students’ backgrounds.[15] Marshall Geiger and Elizabeth Cooper,[16] tried to explain how expectancy theory andneeds theory variables could be used to predict student performance in college based on theirgrade point average.[16] Expectancy Theory as developed by Vroom[45] is defined as the“motivation to act is a combination of the perceived attractiveness of future outcomes and thelikelihood one’s actions will lead to these outcomes” and needs theory is defined as “individualmoated
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First Generation Students Identification with and Feelings of Belongingness in Engineering

Conference Session
Engineering Cultures and Identity
Collection
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Hank Boone, University of Nevada, Reno; Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno
Tagged Topics
ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Educational Research and Methods
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