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Work in Progress: Context Matters: A Comparative Study of Results of Common Concept Questions in Statics at Several Diverse Institutions

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Minneapolis, MN

Publication Date

August 23, 2022

Start Date

June 26, 2022

End Date

June 29, 2022

Conference Session

Statics Fanatics 1

Page Count

11

DOI

10.18260/1-2--41627

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https://peer.asee.org/41627

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304

Paper Authors

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Christopher Papadopoulos University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

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Professor of Engineering Sciences and Materials at UPR Mayagüez.

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Eric Davishahl Whatcom Community College

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Carisa Ramming Oklahoma State University

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Jean Batista Abreu Elizabethtown College

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William Kitch Angelo State University

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Dr. Kitch is currently the Chair of the David L. Hirschfeld Engineering Department at Angelo State University. He has over 20 years of professional engineering practice in both the public and private sectors. He has been a full-time faculty member for the past 16 years. He is a registered professional engineering in Colorado, California, and Texas.

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Abstract

Four institutions collaborated to deploy a set of four common concept questions from the Concept Warehouse. These were deployed in different modalities, such as in class or as homework, but in all cases, the grading basis was “low stakes”. In addition to answering the questions directly, students were asked to provide written explanations of their reasoning, ratings of their confidence with their answer, and ratings of their perceptions on the question effectiveness to help them learn. Preliminary results show that female students express lower confidence in their answers, compared with male students, regardless of whether or not the out-perform the male students, and regardless of institutional setting and students have difficulty providing essential and “correct” explanations for phenomena, even when they provide the correct response, regardless of institutional setting or gender identification. There also appears to be no correlation between performance, confidence, and question effectiveness.

Papadopoulos, C., & Davishahl, E., & Ramming, C., & Batista Abreu, J., & Kitch, W. (2022, August), Work in Progress: Context Matters: A Comparative Study of Results of Common Concept Questions in Statics at Several Diverse Institutions Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--41627

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