Outcomes for engineering students delivering a STEM education and outreach programme

Fitzallen, Noleine; Brown, Natalie

doi:10.1080/03043797.2016.1210570

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“…A limitation of this research is the small sample size. Although appropriate to focus on two students, in accordance with qualitative studies such as this one (e.g., Fitzallen & Brown, 2017), the results are not offered as being generalizable to a larger population. Working with two students allowed the researchers to explore in-depth the way in which students reason about data when involved in inquiries that position them as producers of data.…”

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Creative Insubordination in Statistics Teaching: Possibilities to Go Beyond Statistical Literacy

Souza

Lopes

Fitzallen

2020

SERJ

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Statistics education has the potential to assist students to develop their identities and engage in problems and social contexts that assist in empowering them to act politically in the future. The actions and narrative reported in this paper seek to identify the way in which teachers could develop and implement statistical inquiries that utilize aspects of creative insubordination to enhance student learning experiences. This paper reports on two students who were supported to produce information and act politically on a problem founded in their social and cultural context. Reported practices in this research involved inquiry tasks that promoted collaborative exploration of ideas, data analysis, and reporting. Results evidence that teaching statistics through projects that focus on the development of political actions, Creative Insubordination, have the potential to improve students’ statistical skills. As a consequence, the students were able to go beyond being data producers and data consumers to being statisticians and political activists, a shift necessary for students to understand how data can be used to transform their lives and those of others. First published February 2020 at Statistics Education Research Journal Archives

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confidence: 93%

Creative Insubordination in Statistics Teaching: Possibilities to Go Beyond Statistical Literacy

Souza

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Fitzallen

2020

SERJ

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“…They discussed the benefits of the work they did in stablishing communication between the school and the real world, but the paper does not include any empirical evidence. Although most of the effects of outreach programs have focused on participants, the work of Fitzallen and Brown [12] focused on volunteer engineering students delivering the outreach program in schools. They claimed benefits for these engineering students by reporting positive results regarding motivation and commitment, science communication skills and awareness of teaching and learning science from a case study in a regional university in Australia.…”

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Do Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Experimentation Outreach Programs Affect Attitudes towards Mathematics and Science? A Quasi-Experiment in Primary Education

2020

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Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) outreach programs have been widely studied in recent years considering their possible influence on future STEM career election aiming to counteract the observed decline in enrollment at university. Nonetheless, the presumed effect is not clear due to a lack of comparison with control groups. In order to fill this gap, a quasi-experimental design was adopted to analyze the effect of a STEM experimentation outreach program on 5th and 6th graders. The sample was composed by 453 students, (274 experimental group and 179 control group). The Auzmendi Scale of Attitude towards Mathematics Modified (ASMAm), and the attitude towards school science (ASSci), were used as instruments, and were administered before and after the intervention. The analysis was run with sex, type of school (state and state-funded schools), school environment (rural/urban), and teacher as potential factors. The results show that there is a program effect on the attitude towards mathematics, but not on the attitude towards school science. Regarding the factors, the program effect is associated neither with sex nor with rural/urban schools. However, the program had a more positive effect on the ASSci than on the ASMAm in the state schools, and is mediated by the teacher.

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“… While defining PEO's, every institute must involve stakeholders like employers, industrialist, alumni, students, etc. [18,19,20] The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) defines Program Learning Outcomes as "statements that describe what students are expected to know and be able to do by the time of graduation. [30,31]…”

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Experiences of Teaching Computer Network Course through Lesson Outcomes

2019

IJITEE

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National Board of Accreditation (Abbreviated as NBA) is an official and independent accreditation body of India. Many engineering colleges must adhere to the quality requirements as per the NBA guidelines. Every engineering institute must prepare a Self-Assessment Report (SAR) and submit it to a peer review team for getting NBA Accreditation. In recent years NBA has changed input-output based traditional education system to Outcome-Based Education (OBE). OutcomeBased Education is an approach where each course can have atleast N number of outcomes that students will learn at the end of the semester for a particular course. Later on, these course outcomes can be mapped with Program Outcomes (PO) and Program Educational Objectives (PEO). According to the NBA, CO's are the most granular level of objects that can be defined over a particular course. The problem with particular CO is that they are much generalized and can be mapped to 2-3 chapters of the same course. It becomes very difficult to assess student based on a particular CO. The solution is provided in this paper by dividing CO's in further lesson Outcomes (LO) for effective teaching-learning. The paper also takes a real case study of course – Computer Networks which is an undergraduate course of Mukesh Patel School of Technology Management and Engineering (MPSTME, Affiliated to NMIMS University). After defining LO's of the said course, the paper shows different Course Exit Survey Records in a graphical manner for better understanding. The methodology defined by author outperforms the current existing method defining CO's

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Outcomes for engineering students delivering a STEM education and outreach programme

Cited by 8 publications

References 14 publications

Creative Insubordination in Statistics Teaching: Possibilities to Go Beyond Statistical Literacy

Creative Insubordination in Statistics Teaching: Possibilities to Go Beyond Statistical Literacy

Do Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Experimentation Outreach Programs Affect Attitudes towards Mathematics and Science? A Quasi-Experiment in Primary Education

Experiences of Teaching Computer Network Course through Lesson Outcomes

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