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GIFTS: Learning Theory Workshop Led to First-Year Classroom Innovations

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Conference

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Baltimore , Maryland

Publication Date

June 25, 2023

Start Date

June 25, 2023

End Date

June 28, 2023

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - GIFTS

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

Page Count

7

DOI

10.18260/1-2--43801

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https://peer.asee.org/43801

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157

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Krista M. Kecskemety The Ohio State University Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0003-1192-4172

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Krista Kecskemety is an Associate Professor of Practice in the Department of Engineering Education at The Ohio State University and the Director of the Fundamentals of Engineering for Honors Program. Krista received her B.S. in Aerospace Engineering at The Ohio State University in 2006 and received her M.S. from Ohio State in 2007. In 2012, Krista completed her Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering at Ohio State. Her engineering education research interests include investigating first-year engineering student experiences, faculty experiences, and the research to practice cycle within first-year engineering.

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Benjamin Grier

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Brooke Morin The Ohio State University

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Brooke Morin is a Senior Lecturer in the College of Engineering at Ohio State University, teaching First-Year Engineering for Honors classes in the Department of Engineering Education.

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Amy Kramer P.E. The Ohio State University

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Dr. Amy Kramer received her Ph.D. in engineering education from The Ohio State University. She has prior academic and professional experience in civil engineering, having worked professionally as a structural engineer. She is currently working as a lecturer in the first-year engineering program at The Ohio State University. Her research interests include engineering epistemology, identity, beliefs, and equity and inclusion in engineering.

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Abstract

This GIFTS paper presents an internal workshop that first-year engineering faculty at The Ohio State University attended on Learning Theories and the resulting classroom innovations that arose from that workshop. In Spring 2022, first-year engineering faculty at Ohio State attended an internal department-lead workshop about learning theories. All faculty who had taught first-year engineering that year were asked to attend. The workshop focused on how students learn and included many practices useful for developing student learning; these included retrieval practices, increasing sense of belonging & decreasing stereotype threat, metacognition & self-regulated learning, and transparency in teaching and learning. The workshop presented research on these topics and provided time for faculty to brainstorm class changes based on these ideas. The goal of this workshop was to communicate to all faculty teaching practices based on learning theories while also giving faculty time to reflect on their current practices and propose course modifications.

Kecskemety, K. M., & Grier, B., & Morin, B., & Kramer, A. (2023, June), GIFTS: Learning Theory Workshop Led to First-Year Classroom Innovations Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--43801

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