TY - GEN
T1 - Work in progress - Assessing engineering service students' characteristics
AU - Carberry, Adam R.
PY - 2010/12/1
Y1 - 2010/12/1
N2 - Engineering service opportunities are becoming more the norm than exceptions as today's engineering curricula evolve. Research is needed to explain why so many engineering students desire service opportunities as part of their engineering education. The goal of the following work in progress is to characterize the students who are currently participating in some form of engineering learning-through-service in order to identify underlying reasons for being drawn to service. Using an array of surveying instruments, a multi-institutional assessment of student perceptions of service as a learning source, engineering epistemological beliefs, personality traits, and self-concepts - self-efficacy, motivation, outcome expectancy, and anxiety-toward engineering design is currently underway. To date what has been learned is that most service students 1) perceive service as heavily impacting their learning of professional and technical skills, 2) have slightly sophisticated engineering epistemological beliefs, 3) are typically outgoing, agreeable, and open-minded, 4) have high self-efficacy, motivation, and expectancy for success toward engineering design, and 5) have relatively low anxiety toward engineering design.
AB - Engineering service opportunities are becoming more the norm than exceptions as today's engineering curricula evolve. Research is needed to explain why so many engineering students desire service opportunities as part of their engineering education. The goal of the following work in progress is to characterize the students who are currently participating in some form of engineering learning-through-service in order to identify underlying reasons for being drawn to service. Using an array of surveying instruments, a multi-institutional assessment of student perceptions of service as a learning source, engineering epistemological beliefs, personality traits, and self-concepts - self-efficacy, motivation, outcome expectancy, and anxiety-toward engineering design is currently underway. To date what has been learned is that most service students 1) perceive service as heavily impacting their learning of professional and technical skills, 2) have slightly sophisticated engineering epistemological beliefs, 3) are typically outgoing, agreeable, and open-minded, 4) have high self-efficacy, motivation, and expectancy for success toward engineering design, and 5) have relatively low anxiety toward engineering design.
KW - Engineering design
KW - Engineering service
KW - Epistemological beliefs
KW - Learning outcomes
KW - Self-concepts
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U2 - 10.1109/FIE.2010.5673208
DO - 10.1109/FIE.2010.5673208
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78751531225
SN - 9781424462599
T3 - Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
SP - T2D1-T2D3
BT - 40th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference
T2 - 40th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference: Celebrating Forty Years of Innovation, FIE 2010
Y2 - 27 October 2010 through 30 October 2010
ER -