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Use of a multi-level self-study to engage campus stakeholders and improve STEM student learning outcomes

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Conference

2025 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Location

San Antonio, Texas

Publication Date

February 9, 2025

Start Date

February 9, 2025

End Date

February 11, 2025

Conference Session

Track 1: Technical Session 6: "Use of a multi-level self-study to engage campus stakeholders and improve STEM student learning outcomes "

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Diversity and 2025 CoNECD Paper Submissions

Page Count

14

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https://peer.asee.org/54124

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8

Paper Authors

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Jennifer Speed Texas State University

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Jennifer Speed, Ph.D., is Assistant Vice President for Research Development at Texas State University, a Hispanic-Serving, public research university. For more than ten years, she has supported the development and implementation of programs intended to improve STEM student success, especially among students from underserved and underrepresented backgrounds. She has served a consultant for institutions of higher learning seeking organizational changes that improve teaching and learning.

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Don Pair University of Dayton

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Abstract

Spurred by longstanding concerns about inequities in STEM learning outcomes, including among students in a university’s growing engineering and computer science programs, a small team of faculty and staff at a midsized university undertook an institution-wide initiative to understand its entire STEM learning environment, i.e., the conditions that inform student learning inside and outside of the classroom. But first, however, the team had to determine how best to develop and implement a manageable, multi-level self-study that could offer meaningful insights into the complexity of barriers to STEM student success—and then begin to propose meaningful solutions. This paper describes how a diverse campus team designed and implemented such a self-study, and how a similar approach can be adapted for use at other institutions of higher learning seeking to improve STEM student success. The work described here is one part of a larger study that is still ongoing.

Speed, J., & Pair, D. (2025, February), Use of a multi-level self-study to engage campus stakeholders and improve STEM student learning outcomes Paper presented at 2025 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD), San Antonio, Texas. https://peer.asee.org/54124

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