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Gender Differences in Individual and Teammate Performance Evaluations by Students on Engineering Design Teams

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Conference

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Vancouver, BC

Publication Date

June 26, 2011

Start Date

June 26, 2011

End Date

June 29, 2011

ISSN

2153-5965

Conference Session

WIED Olio

Tagged Division

Women in Engineering

Page Count

9

Page Numbers

22.739.1 - 22.739.9

DOI

10.18260/1-2--18020

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https://peer.asee.org/18020

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391

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Natalie C.T. Van Tyne P.E. Colorado School of Mines Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0002-7058-9098

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Natalie Van Tyne is the Director of the Design Engineering Introductory Course Sequence (Design EPICS) Program at Colorado School of Mines, in which she has taught since 2002. The program provides required first- and second-year students with a foundation in the fundamental skills of engineering design: problem solving in teams, decision analysis, graphical representation, oral and written communications, and numerical analysis. Ms. Van Tyne holds bachelors degrees in chemical engineering and Russian language, masters degrees in chemical engineering, environmental engineering and business adminstration, and is a registered professional engineer in Colorado. She is also a proud alumna of Rutgers University, Lehigh University and Colorado School of Mines.

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Chester J. Van Tyne Colorado School of Mines

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Kathryne Van Tyne University of Chicago

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Abstract

Gender Differences in Individual and Teammate Performance Evaluations by Students on Engineering Design TeamsAbstractEvaluations of team participation and value to the team were conducted in a first yearengineering design course at a public university in the western United States. The quantitativemeasures included a self-evaluation as well as an evaluation of the performance of other teammembers. Data from 866 students (232 women) in 22 classes during the period from spring 2002through spring 2009 were analyzed for this study. Parameters included: gender, self-evaluationscore, evaluation score from peers and final numeric course grade. A Wilcoxon rank sum testwas used to compare the differences between self- and team-evaluation scores, as well as tocompare average peer evaluation with final course grade. We did not find significant differencesbetween men and women students in either self-evaluation or actual performance. It was alsofound that students irrespective of gender who had a 5% higher self-evaluation score than theirteam-evaluation score, actually received lower course grades than those who under-valued theircontribution to their team. These results indicate that small, engineering-focused institutionsmay provide a learning environment for women that results in greater self-efficacy, or it mayindicate that this type of institution attracts women students who already have a very strongcommitment to and tenacity for the study of engineering.

Van Tyne, N. C., & Van Tyne, C. J., & Tyne, K. V. (2011, June), Gender Differences in Individual and Teammate Performance Evaluations by Students on Engineering Design Teams Paper presented at 2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Vancouver, BC. 10.18260/1-2--18020

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