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Assessing Resilience as a Virtue in Learners: Development of a New Scale for Academic Resilience

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Baltimore , Maryland

Publication Date

June 25, 2023

Start Date

June 25, 2023

End Date

June 28, 2023

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE) Technical Session 2

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE)

Page Count

10

DOI

10.18260/1-2--42305

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https://peer.asee.org/42305

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Paul Marlowe

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College student living life to the max. Interests in the field of psychology and intersections with learning.

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Stephen T. Frezza Franciscan University of Steubenville Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0002-5246-3061

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Deacon Steve Frezza, PSEM is a professor of Software Engineering and director of the Software Engineering program at Franciscan University of Steubenville in Steubenville, OH. His research interests include Global Software Engineering, Affective Domain

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Joanne Storm Gallagher Franciscan University of Steubenville

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Marita Anne O'Brien Franciscan University of Steubenville

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Marita A. O'Brien is an associate professor of psychology at Franciscan University in Steubenville with a specialization in engineering psychology. She earned her Ph.D. in engineering psychology with a minor in Cognitive Aging from Georgia Tech, along with an M.S. in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Colorado and an A.B. in Math/Economics from Duke University. Her primary research focuses on investigating differences in everyday technology use based on variables such as age and general technology background. She is also interested in disaster resilience and residential preparation for disasters along with the development of resilience among college students. She is a member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES). Prior to her academic career, she spent more than 10 years advising Fortune 500 clients on the design of customer interfaces at Deloitte Consulting and Morgan Stanley & Company.

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Sabrina J. Bierstetel Franciscan University of Steubenville

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Abstract

Resilience is a learner disposition that serves as an aspect of the virtue of fortitude. While many measures exist that examine resilience, few do so in an educational context. Existing scales of academic resilience (e.g., ARS-30) tend to measure resilience as a process by which persons overcome adversity. However, resilience also enables students to achieve their goals and improve their learning outcomes. Factors indicative of this process, like self-efficacy, adaptive coping, exploration, and willingness to change learning approaches when needed, are not measured in the ARS-30 or other current resilience scales. The proposed Values Resilience Scale (VRI) under study measures resilience as a process that enables one to overcome academic adversity so as to achieve one’s fullest academic potential. Such a measure would allow educators to identify students who may be hindered from reaching their utmost potential through their lack of academic resilience, and help students and faculty better integrate the virtue of resilience into student learning experiences. This paper examines the development, reliability and validity of the VRI.

Marlowe, P., & Frezza, S. T., & Gallagher, J. S., & O'Brien, M. A., & Bierstetel, S. J. (2023, June), Assessing Resilience as a Virtue in Learners: Development of a New Scale for Academic Resilience Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--42305

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