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Undergraduate Engineering Students’ Time Management and Self Efficacy in Different Learning Formats

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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

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 9: Online Learning Environments

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

Page Count

14

DOI

10.18260/1-2--44527

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https://peer.asee.org/44527

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Tara Esfahani

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David A. Copp University of California, Irvine Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0002-5206-5223

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David A. Copp received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Arizona and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Teaching at the University of California, Irvine in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Prior to joining UCI, he was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories and an adjunct faculty member in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico. His broad research interests include engineering education, as well as control and optimization of nonlinear and hybrid systems with applications to power and energy systems, multi-agent systems, robotics, and biomedicine. He is a recipient of UCSB's Center for Control, Dynamical Systems, and Computation Best PhD Thesis award and a UCI Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentorship.

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Abstract

Rapid changes in learning environments due to the COVID-19 pandemic led to disruptions in students’ routines for studying, exercise, and socialization, causing shifts in time management behavior. This is true for both transitions to remote learning as well as the transition back to in person instruction. The objective of this research is to examine the effect of remote and hybrid learning formats on the time management habits of students and to determine if self-reported time management habits may be related to students’ self-efficacy and academic performance. Towards this goal, we collected students’ numerical responses to survey questions from the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) regarding their time management habits and self-efficacy. The survey was administered at the conclusion of two separate offerings of the same course in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California Irvine (UCI): one in a fully remote format (Winter 2021) and the other in a hybrid format that transitioned from fully remote to in person in the middle of the term (Winter 2022). This required upper division course for mechanical and aerospace engineering majors involves lectures, laboratory experiments, and a final team project. We employ non-parametric methods for hypothesis testing to compare survey responses from students in the two different course offerings, and we compute rank correlation statistics of students’ responses and institutional data to determine relationships between time management, self-efficacy, course load, and academic performance. Students in the fully remote course reported better time management and self efficacy than students in the hybrid course, and there were significant relationships between time management, self efficacy, and academic performance in both course formats.

Esfahani, T., & Copp, D. A. (2023, June), Undergraduate Engineering Students’ Time Management and Self Efficacy in Different Learning Formats Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--44527

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