Cardenas, A., & de los Rios Escobar, M. J., & Oseguera, L. (2023, March), Changes in Engineering Identity Among First-Year Undergraduates During the COVID-19 Pandemic  Paper presented at ASEE Zone 1 Conference - Spring 2023, State College,, Pennsylvania. 10.18260/1-2--44698

\bibitem{asee_peer_44698}
  Cardenas, A., \& de los Rios Escobar, M. J., \& Oseguera, L. (2023, March), \emph{Changes in Engineering Identity Among First-Year Undergraduates During the COVID-19 Pandemic}
  Paper presented at ASEE Zone 1 Conference - Spring 2023, State College,, Pennsylvania.
  10.18260/1-2--44698

Artemio Cardenas, Maria Javiera de los Rios Escobar, and Leticia Oseguera.  "Changes in Engineering Identity Among First-Year Undergraduates During the COVID-19 Pandemic".  ASEE Zone 1 Conference - Spring 2023, State College,, Pennsylvania, 2023, March.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://peer.asee.org/44698 Internet.  19 May, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_44698}
  Artemio Cardenas, Maria Javiera de los Rios Escobar, and Leticia Oseguera.
  "Changes in Engineering Identity Among First-Year Undergraduates During the COVID-19 Pandemic".
  \emph{ASEE Zone 1 Conference - Spring 2023, State College,, Pennsylvania, 2023, March}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://peer.asee.org/44698 Internet.  19 May, 2024

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Universities nationwide have struggled with retention and representation problems in their engineering programs. Engineering is among the college majors with the largest net losses from switching to other majors. While there is evidence of the importance of having a strong engineering identity for student retention (Carlone & Johnson, 2007; Chemers et al., 2011; Estrada et al., 2011; Merolla & Serpe, 2013, Oseguera et al., 2020), there is a lack of research on how the Covid-19 pandemic may have impacted engineering identity. Our work focuses on understanding pre-major engineering students’ disciplinary identity before and during the pandemic. We hypothesized that, for a cohort of pre-major students, engineering identity would decrease after the onset of the pandemic, because such identity development is influenced by day-to-day interactions within students’ engineering community and their reflections about these experiences (Carrino & Gerace, 2016). We also hypothesized that there would be a negative relationship between identity and Covid-19 stressors during the pandemic. Finally, we hypothesized that the magnitude of changes in students’ disciplinary identity would vary by student gender and race/ethnicity subgroup. When comparing disciplinary identity means by subgroup before and during the pandemic, we did not find any statistically significant differences within groups. Our findings indicate that disciplinary identity remained stagnant for students after the onset of the pandemic. Our between-group results also indicated that gaps between groups that existed before the pandemic seemed to persist even after the pandemic. We did not find a statistically significant relationship between Covid-19 stressors and identity. Given the results of our research, practitioners that focus on retention may need to emphasize efforts on identity development, not only for students who entered the university during the height of Covid-19 restrictions, but also before the pandemic.  
AU  - Artemio Cardenas
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TI  - Changes in Engineering Identity Among First-Year Undergraduates During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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