Exploring the Relationships Between Resilience and Student Performance in an Engineering Statics Class: A Work in Progress

Abstract

His research interests include learning and cognition, students' engagement, and the assessment of learning and students engagements, in engineering classrooms. His expertise also include the development and validation of measurement inventories, systematic reviews and meta-analysis, and quantitative research designs.

Reflection and Goal Setting: Methods for Improved Performance and Engagement in Engineering Courses

“…The students filled out a psychometric online survey that ranked them in five subcategories of resilience (adaptability, self-sufficiency, self-control, optimism, and persistence) based on their responses. The students who were more successful in the course ranked higher in all the subcategories except self-sufficiency [14]. This means that, similar to what has been shown by others, students who were more resilient experienced improved academic performance.…”

Can we find a correlation between students’ resilience and academic performance?

“…Five essential resilience factors were investigated, namely optimism, adaptability, persistence, self-sufficiency, and self-control. The test instrument used has been validated by previous research that employed a PRT questionnaire [1]. Descriptive statistics and simple percentages are used to summarize the research data.…”