Lutz, B., & Peuker, S. (2022, August), Preliminary Development and Validation of the Engineering Social Justice Scale  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--40482

\bibitem{asee_peer_40482}
  Lutz, B., \& Peuker, S. (2022, August), \emph{Preliminary Development and Validation of the Engineering Social Justice Scale}
  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN.
  10.18260/1-2--40482

Benjamin Lutz and Steffen Peuker.  "Preliminary Development and Validation of the Engineering Social Justice Scale".  2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August.  ASEE Conferences, 2022.  https://peer.asee.org/40482 Internet.  14 May, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_40482}
  Benjamin Lutz and Steffen Peuker.
  "Preliminary Development and Validation of the Engineering Social Justice Scale".
  \emph{2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2022.
  https://peer.asee.org/40482 Internet.  14 May, 2024

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title = "Preliminary Development and Validation of the Engineering Social Justice Scale"
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AB  - The purpose of this work in progress is to provide preliminary findings from efforts to develop a valid and reliable instrument to measure students’ attitudes, beliefs, and intentions related to social justice in engineering contexts. As researchers continue to demonstrate the critical links between engineering topics and social justice and advocate for their integration into engineering curricula, it is important that engineering educators have tools to assess student growth and development in these areas as well. By measuring student perceptions of social justice and their relationship to it as engineers, we can help engineering educators and students more critically examine the sociotechnical nature of engineering and help better prepare students for the realities of modern engineering work. To address this need, we adapted the pre-existing, validated Social Justice Scale to develop an instrument designed to address the role of social justice specifically in engineering settings. We collected data via a survey of 251 first-year mechanical engineering students at a large, predominantly white, public university on the west coast. Using exploratory factor analysis, we examined the underlying constructs of the scale related to student attitudes, behaviors, subjective norms, and intentions concerning social justice in engineering. Preliminary findings suggest that the Engineering Social Justice Scale (ESJS) has the potential to assess different dimensions of student perceptions and development related to social justice in engineering, but that the scale might need to be modified to more appropriately fit in engineering-specific contexts. In this paper, we describe the development process for the ESJS and present preliminary validation measures from Exploratory Factor Analysis. In an effort to make the ESJS easier for instructors to implement and provide a more useful measure, we offer a revised version of the instrument for subsequent distribution and iterative statistical analysis. Based on our EFA, we discuss the different underlying factors present in student attitudes and behaviors related to social justice and compare those to existing theoretical models. Finally, we make recommendations for future iterations related to language and item construction and detail our plans to continue instrument development and validation. By providing a valid and reliable instrument for social justice in engineering, educators can more meaningfully assess critical student outcomes and begin to develop a shared language for discussing student learning outcomes related to social justice. 
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