TY - JOUR
T1 - Professional Development Program for High School Counselors on the Engineering Design Process (Evaluation)
AU - Ross, Lydia
AU - Dalal, Medha
AU - Carberry, Adam R.
AU - Roarty, Jacob
N1 - Funding Information:
The [PROGRAM NAME] PD program is situated within the context of a large, nationwide, NSF funded project. The [PROJECT] project aims to “demystify” engineering for high school students and teachers through creating an all-inclusive high school engineering curricula [6]. The larger [PROJECT] program provides: 1) ongoing professional development to high school teachers, and 2) an online learning community of teachers, school officials, engineering educators, and practicing engineers. This work explores the significant need to provide PD for counselors who play a major role in student choice to pursue future engineering education.
Publisher Copyright:
© American Society for Engineering Education, 2021
PY - 2021/7/26
Y1 - 2021/7/26
N2 - High school counselors play a pivotal role in students' educational pathways to STEM careers. Guidance provided by these school officials can be critical in student selection of elective courses, achievement, and fostering an environment through outreach activities. Each of these factors can influence students' career interests, college choice, and major selection, which can have a major impact on diversifying who pursues degrees in engineering. This research study details the development of a professional development (PD) program for high school guidance counselors to better understand how such an experience can impact counselor perception of engineering. Counselors participated in a series of engineering design activities to learn more about the engineering process, engineering stereotypes, stereotype threats, implicit biases, and different disciplines within engineering to better inform their students of future career options. Details are provided around the design of the engineering counselor PD as well as insights into how the PD impacted counselor perceptions of engineering. The study has implications toward broadening participation in engineering through school counselor professional development.
AB - High school counselors play a pivotal role in students' educational pathways to STEM careers. Guidance provided by these school officials can be critical in student selection of elective courses, achievement, and fostering an environment through outreach activities. Each of these factors can influence students' career interests, college choice, and major selection, which can have a major impact on diversifying who pursues degrees in engineering. This research study details the development of a professional development (PD) program for high school guidance counselors to better understand how such an experience can impact counselor perception of engineering. Counselors participated in a series of engineering design activities to learn more about the engineering process, engineering stereotypes, stereotype threats, implicit biases, and different disciplines within engineering to better inform their students of future career options. Details are provided around the design of the engineering counselor PD as well as insights into how the PD impacted counselor perceptions of engineering. The study has implications toward broadening participation in engineering through school counselor professional development.
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85123829342
SN - 2153-5965
JO - ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
JF - ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
T2 - 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference, ASEE 2021
Y2 - 26 July 2021 through 29 July 2021
ER -