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View article: An ecological belonging intervention for equity: Impacts to date and promising directions
An ecological belonging intervention for equity: Impacts to date and promising directions Open
Keywords: Undergraduate, Race/Ethnicity, Engineering, Belonging Introductory engineering courses in the first and second year often have equity gaps in student academic performance for women and Black, Latino/a/x, and Indigenous (BLI) stud…
View article: Predicting Interest in Engineering Majors: The Role of Critical Agency and Career Goals
Predicting Interest in Engineering Majors: The Role of Critical Agency and Career Goals Open
This research paper investigates how students' latent diversity influences students disciplinary engineering major choices. Students bring interests, beliefs, and attitudes to engineering education, and in turn, norm to expectations and id…
View article: Modeling Trajectories of Latent Classes to Understand the Academic Performance of Engineering Students
Modeling Trajectories of Latent Classes to Understand the Academic Performance of Engineering Students Open
This research paper investigates the grade point average (GPAs) trajectories of engineering students and provides a step-by-step guide for those interested in adapting or using the technique. The use of GPA as a measure of academic achieve…
View article: Board 404: The Process of Building Faculty Buy-in for Course-Based Adaptations of an Ecological Belonging Intervention to Transform Engineering Representation at Scale
Board 404: The Process of Building Faculty Buy-in for Course-Based Adaptations of an Ecological Belonging Intervention to Transform Engineering Representation at Scale Open
This project uses an ecological intervention approach that requires one class or recitation/discussion session to implement and has been shown to erase long-standing equity gaps in achievement in introductory STEM courses. We describe thes…
View article: “Everything sucked . . . for everyone”: Narrative of a Student Journeying Through Engineering Before COVID-19, During COVID-19, and Beyond
“Everything sucked . . . for everyone”: Narrative of a Student Journeying Through Engineering Before COVID-19, During COVID-19, and Beyond Open
This paper reports on the final year of the project, CAREER: Actualizing Latent Diversity: Building Innovation through Engineering Students' Identity Development (NSF EEC 1554057). Engineering has a history of attracting and graduating loo…
View article: Unpacking Engineering Doctoral Students’ Career Goal Setting and Future Time Perspectives
Unpacking Engineering Doctoral Students’ Career Goal Setting and Future Time Perspectives Open
This work-in-progress paper explores how goal-setting theory and future time perspective can be used to investigate how engineering doctoral students set and act upon future career goals. While graduate education serves an opportunity to d…
View article: Potential of a Values Affirmation Intervention for Marginalized Gender Students’ Belonging and Recognition
Potential of a Values Affirmation Intervention for Marginalized Gender Students’ Belonging and Recognition Open
This research paper investigates the effects of a values affirmation intervention on first-year students’ of marginalized genders (which includes ciswomen, trans, and non-binary/third gender students) sense of belonging and identity in eng…
View article: Belonging in Engineering for Black, Latinx, and Indigenous Students: Promising Results From an Educational Intervention in an Introductory Programming Course
Belonging in Engineering for Black, Latinx, and Indigenous Students: Promising Results From an Educational Intervention in an Introductory Programming Course Open
Contribution: This study demonstrates the efficacy of an ecological belonging intervention in a first-year engineering programming course to increase belonging for Black, Latinx, and Indigenous (BLI) students and close academic equity …
View article: Are there any “science people” in undergraduate health science courses? Assessing science identity among pre‐nursing and pre‐allied health students in a community college setting
Are there any “science people” in undergraduate health science courses? Assessing science identity among pre‐nursing and pre‐allied health students in a community college setting Open
Science identity, or one's sense of recognition and competence as a scientist, is an invaluable tool for predicting student persistence and success, but is understudied among undergraduates completing preparatory work for later studies in …
View article: Issue Information
Issue Information Open
The Journal publishes manuscripts in a wide variety of research areas in the field of engineering education: engineering epistemologies (what constitutes engineering thinking and knowledge), engineering learning mechanisms (how learners de…
View article: Engineer identity and degree completion intentions in doctoral study
Engineer identity and degree completion intentions in doctoral study Open
Background Degree completion rates for doctoral engineering students remain stagnant at levels lower than necessary to meet national and global workforce needs. Increasing degree completion can improve opportunities for individuals and pro…
View article: Inequity in graduate engineering identity: Disciplinary differences and opportunity structures
Inequity in graduate engineering identity: Disciplinary differences and opportunity structures Open
Background The retention of traditionally underserved students remains a pressing problem across graduate engineering programs. Disciplinary differences in graduate engineering identity provide a lens to investigate students' experiences a…
View article: CAREER: Learning from Students’ Identity Trajectories to Actualize Latent Diversity
CAREER: Learning from Students’ Identity Trajectories to Actualize Latent Diversity Open
This executive summary describes the progression of a research project focused on characterizing latent diversity in engineering through students’ narratives of their identity trajectories. Despite grandiose initiatives, the underlying nat…
View article: New Epistemological Perspectives on Quantitative Methods: An Example Using Topological Data Analysis
New Epistemological Perspectives on Quantitative Methods: An Example Using Topological Data Analysis Open
Background: Education researchers use quantitative methodologies to examine generalizable correlational trends or causal mechanisms in phenomena or behaviors. These methodologies stem from (post)positivist epistemologies and often rely on …
View article: The Challenge of Synthesizing Identity Theory Illustrated through a Science and Engineering Example.
The Challenge of Synthesizing Identity Theory Illustrated through a Science and Engineering Example. Open
View article: Fitting In Across STEM: Comparing Science/Math and Engineering/Technology Students' Perceptions of Their Fields and Futures
Fitting In Across STEM: Comparing Science/Math and Engineering/Technology Students' Perceptions of Their Fields and Futures Open
This research paper compares engineering and technology undergraduates with their science and math counterparts, exploring the influence that perceived fit, perceptions of equality, and gender have on their intentions to pursue a STEM care…
View article: Board # 18 : Improving Performance and Retention of Engineering Graduate Students through Motivation and Identity Formation
Board # 18 : Improving Performance and Retention of Engineering Graduate Students through Motivation and Identity Formation Open
The overarching goal of our research project is to address the 50% attrition rate of engineering graduate students and to improve the experiences of students by propelling evidence-based policy-making in engineering doctoral programs. To a…
View article: The Role of Engineering Doctoral Students' Future Goals on Perceived Task Usefulness
The Role of Engineering Doctoral Students' Future Goals on Perceived Task Usefulness Open
This research paper explores how engineering doctoral students’ (EDS) experiences influence development and utilization of future time perspective (FTP) towards degree completion. Engineering doctoral programs serve to generate new innovat…
View article: The Role of Engineering Identity in Engineering Doctoral Students' Experiences
The Role of Engineering Identity in Engineering Doctoral Students' Experiences Open
This research paper explores how engineering doctoral students (EDSs) interpret experiences and craft engineering identities while pursuing a Ph.D. The number of students completing engineering doctoral studies is an area of ongoing concer…
View article: Scientist Spotlight Homework Assignments Shift Students’ Stereotypes of Scientists and Enhance Science Identity in a Diverse Introductory Science Class
Scientist Spotlight Homework Assignments Shift Students’ Stereotypes of Scientists and Enhance Science Identity in a Diverse Introductory Science Class Open
Research into science identity, stereotype threat, and possible selves suggests a lack of diverse representations of scientists could impede traditionally underserved students from persisting and succeeding in science. We evaluated a serie…