Measuring engineering freshman attitudes and perceptions of their first year academic experience: the continuing development of two assessment instruments

Graham, James M.; Caso, Rita

doi:10.1109/fie.2002.1158180

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“…The literature demonstrates how women of color develop agency to persist by relying on supportive social networks in order to thrive in the male-dominated environment of STEM. Many studies document supportive mechanisms, such as peers, professors, and family members, who contribute to persistence through their studies and degree completion (Brown, 2008; Carlone & Johnson, 2007; Espinosa, 2011; Graham & Caso, 2002; Tate & Linn, 2005). These studies consistently suggest that participation in different types of affinity groups on campus, such as study groups or student organizations, contribute to increasing persistence in obtaining a degree in a STEM-related field.…”

Section: Engineering: a Macro Perspective Of Engineering As History I...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“Is engineering for me?”: Examining Latinas’ narratives of resilience and agency to confront enduring struggles and challenges in undergraduate engineering studies.

Villa¹,

Esquinca²,

Hampton³

et al. 2020

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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In 2016, Latinas earned 13% of the college degrees earned by women; yet, a mere 3% were in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Persistence in engineering education has largely been the burden of women rather than the institution itself, and it can be said that the field of engineering is powerful in mediating identity-making via layers of historically rooted privilege, leading to discomfort and disillusionment. This qualitative investigation of Latinas at an institution on the U.S.-Mexico border draws from a larger nationally funded study examining persistence and resilience in engineering education. This article focuses on one of the major themes emerging from the larger study: Latinas in engineering and computer science undergraduate studies have been challenged by the endemic barriers rooted in systemic violence of the male-dominated field of engineering and its historical marginalization of women, especially women of color. Twenty-six undergraduate Latinas were recruited using purposeful sampling, and data relevant to the theme of this investigation were drawn from all of the interviews and collected using in-depth interviews. This study, however, focuses largely on the narratives of 3 participants who provided thick descriptions of their experiences, and the strongest emergent theme was the adversity faced by Latinas, which was manifested in a variety of ways largely due to the historical structure of engineering as rigid and masculine. This posed a contentious climate for many of these Latinas, which this article illuminates to demonstrate the enduring and invisible symbolic violence of Latinas in engineering undergraduate studies.

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Section: Engineering: a Macro Perspective Of Engineering As History I...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“Is engineering for me?”: Examining Latinas’ narratives of resilience and agency to confront enduring struggles and challenges in undergraduate engineering studies.

Villa¹,

Esquinca²,

Hampton³

et al. 2020

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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“…Related to scales, details on the psychometrics such as internal consistencies or reliabilities and factor structure can be found in Graham. 5 In addition we looked at correlations between questions.…”

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Freshman Engineering Student Responses To A Pre College Perception Survey

Rowley¹,

Yelamarthi²,

Miller³

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2007 Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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and is a PE. He has been in academia since 1970. Among his many activities he served as the Chair of the ASEE/BMD 1987-1988 and is a reviewer for NSF. His research focuses on rehabilitation engineering and teaching. Kumar Yelamarthi, Wright State University KUMAR YELAMARTHI is currently a Ph.D. student, and holds a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Wright State University. He serves as the lead Graduate Teaching Assistant for the Freshman Engineering and Computer Science Program. He was honored as the most outstanding Graduate Student in 2004, most outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant in 2005, and also has been nominated for excellence in teaching awards several times. He is currently an author on over fifteen publications. His research focus is low-power VLSI methodologies, and engineering education.

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“…Data sources and analyses CTL surveys: Computing and engineering attitude surveys were reviewed [17], [18] to determine whether validated instruments exist that could succinctly capture the unique constructs of interest in the CTL support class without significantly increasing the evaluation burden to students. In addition to items about computing attitudes, expertise, intent, and impact, researchers hoped to learn more about student programming experiences, tutoring hours by subject, goals for participation, suggestions for improvement of the CTL, and suggestions for improvement of the College of Engineering.…”

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A Flipped Active-learning Class to Support Diverse Students in a Large Introduction to Programming Class

Dillon

Slattery

2018 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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Her research centers on formal methods in software engineering, specification, and analysis of concurrent software systems. An ACM Distinguished Scientist, Laura has served on numerous editorial boards, program committees, funding panels, and advisory committees-most recently, as Vice Chair of ACM SIGSOFT and General Chair of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering. She has participated in many CRAW and ACM mentoring events; is a founding adviser of MSU Women in Computing, the MSU ACM-W Chapter; and co-led TechKobwa, a technology camp for secondary-school teachers and female students in Rwanda, for three summers.

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Measuring engineering freshman attitudes and perceptions of their first year academic experience: the continuing development of two assessment instruments

Cited by 8 publications

References 3 publications

“Is engineering for me?”: Examining Latinas’ narratives of resilience and agency to confront enduring struggles and challenges in undergraduate engineering studies.

“Is engineering for me?”: Examining Latinas’ narratives of resilience and agency to confront enduring struggles and challenges in undergraduate engineering studies.

Freshman Engineering Student Responses To A Pre College Perception Survey

A Flipped Active-learning Class to Support Diverse Students in a Large Introduction to Programming Class

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