Given that students maintain a continuous connection with their smartphones in their daily lives and rely on them for participating in distance education, it becomes imperative to explore the factors associated with s...
Given that students maintain a continuous connection with their smartphones in their daily lives and rely on them for participating in distance education, it becomes imperative to explore the factors associated with student engagement, considering the mediating role of smartphone addiction in distance education programs. Although extensive research has been carried out on smartphone addiction, very little is known about it in the context of distance education. This study aims to explore the relationship between student engagement, smartphone addiction, self-regulation, and self-efficacy among distance education students in online learning environments. This cross-sectional study was conducted in Türkiye. Data were collected via an online questionnaire from 1514 university students ( n = 842 females, n = 672 males; M age = 33.11, SD = 10.09) enrolled in various distance education programs in Turkey, specifically those undertaking synchronous online courses, through an online questionnaire distributed via e-mail. Path analysis modelling was used to test the hypothesised model. Maximum Likelihood Estimation was used as a method for estimating parameters in path analysis. The findings of this study indicate that self-regulation had a positive impact on student engagement, while smartphone addiction had a negative influence. Importantly, smartphone addiction acted as a mediating factor, weakening the relationship between self-regulation and student engagement. No significant correlation was found between general self-efficacy and smartphone addiction. These results highlight the significance of interventions focusing on self-regulation skills and promoting healthy digital habits to enhance student engagement and addressing smartphone addiction is crucial for enhancing student engagement in distance learning environments. En la actualidad, el alumnado mantiene una conexión constante con los teléfonos inteligentes y depende de ellos para la educación a distancia. Por tan
Women represent only one fifth of engineering Bachelor's degree recipients in the U.S. This gender gap has stubbornly held for the past several years. Based on survey and interview data, this study examines the ex...
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Women represent only one fifth of engineering Bachelor's degree recipients in the U.S. This gender gap has stubbornly held for the past several years. Based on survey and interview data, this study examines the experiences and perspectives of 40 first-year women and men intending to study engineering at a public, research extensive university. We found that, regardless of gender, students view math, science, and other technical abilities as foundational in engineering. However, our findings also provide a complex picture of gender differences in the experiences and ways of thinking beginning undergraduates associate with engineering. With a more detailed understanding of what distinguishes women as early successes in the possible engineering pathways, this study provides empirical grounds for portraying engineering more broadly in order to recruit more women.
This paper presents how the results of a study on teaching conceptions have come to exert both a philosophical and practical influence on the faculty development services offered at an engineering-specific teaching an...
Pre- and post-tests are often used in engineering Education Research to assess teaching and learning. Sometimes, it is reasonable or even necessary to use a different pre- than post-test. In that case, it is difficult...
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Mathematics is generally considered to be a fundamental element of engineering education. However, there is little empirical evidence characterizing the role of mathematics in the engineering design process. The goal ...
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Mathematics is generally considered to be a fundamental element of engineering education. However, there is little empirical evidence characterizing the role of mathematics in the engineering design process. The goal of this paper is to take a research informed approach towards understanding engineering students' use of mathematical problem solving strategies while engaged in capstone design projects. This paper presents some initial evidence elicited through observation of a team of five industrial engineering seniors, interviews with these students as well as students from other engineering departments and document analysis. The data is analyzed using a framework based on the work of Alan Schoenfeld1which consists of five aspects of mathematical thinking: the knowledge base (e.g., calculus), problem solving strategies or heuristics, effective use of one's resources (or cognitive structures, such as memory), beliefs and attitudes (about mathematics), and engagement in mathematical practices. Results from this study provide insights for mathematics and engineering educators as they support engineering students' integration of mathematics and mathematical thinking into their design practices.
Background Despite the well-established positive effects of storytelling, narrative modes of thinking have neither been systematically assessed nor widely implemented in engineering education. Purpose Recently, the id...
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Background Despite the well-established positive effects of storytelling, narrative modes of thinking have neither been systematically assessed nor widely implemented in engineering education. Purpose Recently, the idea of story-driven learning (SDL) as pedagogy has been applied in an engineering department at a public university. Our research question was: “How are students, as a result of story-driven learning, changing in regard to both their self-reported (1) entrepreneurial mindset, self-concept clarity, and sense of narrative identity and (2) the ways in which they tell the stories of their lives?” Design We collected data from 60 students and compared the results from (1) students currently enrolled in “The Art of Telling Your Story” course and (2) students who had never taken the course. At the beginning and end of the semester, students completed self-report measures (i.e., self-concept clarity, awareness of narrative identity, entrepreneurial mindset) and two narrative prompts. The stories were then coded for six narrative themes: entrepreneurial mindset, redemption, contamination, agency, self-concept clarity, autobiographical reasoning. Results Students in the class experienced an increase in agency and entrepreneurial mindset. Moreover, when directly compared with students not in the course, students in the course experienced an increase in autobiographical reasoning, awareness of narrative identity, and maintained their increase in entrepreneurial mindset. Conclusions These results showcase the potency of storytelling interventions, as well as highlighting—for the first time—their potential for influencing the development of entrepreneurially minded engineers.
In this paper, we are interested in exploring the question: how much explicit, named attention has reflection received in engineering education scholarship and how do we interpret these results? We conducted a systema...
Soliciting mid-semester student feedback encourages a more responsible attitude by the students as they reflect upon the course. Making use of a third party facilitator to obtain this feedback results in constructive ...
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Soliciting mid-semester student feedback encourages a more responsible attitude by the students as they reflect upon the course. Making use of a third party facilitator to obtain this feedback results in constructive suggestions by the students. Implementation of some of these suggestions, will often result in an improved learning environment. A junior-level fluid mechanics course was modified over a two-year period. These modifications together with the results of soliciting mid-semester feedback are described here.
In this paper, we look at how the construction of two types of professional portfolios supports engineering student learning. To frame "engineeringlearning," we use the dimensions brought together by Steven...
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In this paper, we look at how the construction of two types of professional portfolios supports engineering student learning. To frame "engineeringlearning," we use the dimensions brought together by Stevens and his colleagues: disciplinary knowledge, identity, and navigation. We present data from a comparative study in which students constructed one of two types of professional portfolios and provided data through extensive questionnaires. In this analysis, we look at their answers to the first question on the questionnaire ("What did you take away from this experience") in terms of the extent to which the students reported insights about disciplinary knowledge, identity, and navigation as a result of portfolio construction activities and the nature of the insights reported.
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