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1. Preparing University Students to Lead K-12 Engineering Outreach Programmes: A Design Experiment

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Anthony, Anika B., Greene, Howard, Post, Paul E., Parkhurst, Andrew, and Zhan, Xi

Abstract

This paper describes an engineering outreach programme designed to increase the interest of under-represented youth in engineering and to disseminate pre-engineering design challenge materials to K-12 educators and volunteers. Given university students' critical role as facilitators of the outreach programme, researchers conducted a two-year design experiment to examine the programme's effectiveness at preparing university students to lead pre-engineering activities. Pre- and post-surveys incorporated items from the Student Engagement sub-scale of the Teacher Sense of Efficacy Scale. Surveys were analysed using paired-samples t-test. Interview and open-ended survey data were analysed using discourse analysis and the constant comparative method. As a result of participation in the programme, university students reported a gain in efficacy to lead pre-engineering activities. The paper discusses programme features that supported efficacy gains and concludes with a set of design principles for developing learning environments that effectively prepare university students to facilitate pre-engineering outreach programmes.

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2016
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2. Preparing Teachers and University Students to Translate Engineering Research to K8 Students in an After-school Program.

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Greene, Howard L., Xi Zhan, Anthony, Anika, Post, Paul E., and Parkhurst, Andrew James

Subjects
ENGINEERING students, ENGINEERING education in universities & colleges, ENGINEERING teachers, ENGINEERING school faculty, ENGINEERING, TRAINING
Abstract

Translating Engineering Research to K8 Students (TEK8) is a university-K8 partnership that has been designed and implemented as part of an outreach collaboration between the Colleges of Engineering and Education at The Ohio State University. The program aims to advance the broader impacts of federally funded engineering research while increasing urban middle school students' interest in engineering and preparing practicing teachers and engineering students to introduce middle school students to the engineering design process. This paper describes the TEK8 university-school partnership and presents results from a preliminary study conducted to examine the partnership's effectiveness for preparing teachers and engineering students to interest middle school students in engineering. Data were collected using interviews, observations, and a teacher self-efficacy survey. The survey was appropriated to focus on teachers' and engineering students' self-efficacy to interest middle school students in engineering. Methods of analysis included discourse analysis, the constant comparative method, and the nonparametric 1-tailed Wilcoxon signed rank test. Results reveal that the university course increased teachers' and engineering students' self-efficacy to interest middle school students in engineering. A discussion is provided on pre-engineering education in after-school settings and realizing broader impacts of STEM research through K12 outreach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2014

4. Lawrence UNIVERSITY.

Author

Parkhurst, Andrew

Subjects
FIRST person narrative, NARRATION, LAWRENCE University (Appleton, Wis.), UNIVERSITIES & colleges, COLLEGE campuses
Abstract

The article discusses the author's visit at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. He was impressed by the students' friendliness and the liberal arts school's size fulfilled his criteria. He was attracted by the river and the school chapel, which was considered on the campus' main architectural features. He was drawn to the rehearsal of a jazz ensemble at the school conservatory.

Published
2005

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