Pub Date : 2015-03-07DOI: 10.1109/ISECON.2015.7119929
Rami J. Haddad, Y. Kalaani
This paper introduces the notion of predicting academic performance based on Computational Thinking. The integral role that Computational Thinking modalities play in engineering disciplines can serve as an accurate indicator of the student future academic success. Therefore, this study investigated the students' performance in a Computational Thinking course offered at the freshman level to predict student academic success. To achieve this goal, a two-year study of the correlation between the students' accumulative grade point averages and their grades obtained in this course was conducted. The performance of nine hundred and eighty two students in forty sections was assessed over the two-year period. It was concluded that the students' future academic performance is strongly correlated to their Computational Thinking skills assessed at the freshman level. This clearly suggests the viability of using Computational Thinking skills as a fairly accurate predictor of students' academic success. These results have also implied that the assessment of Computational Thinking can be used as an early intervention tool to improve the students' retention, progression, and graduation rates in STEM related disciplines.
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Pub Date : 2015-03-07DOI: 10.1109/ISECon.2015.7119907
L. Corrales, Doreen Dacilas
The purpose of this research project was to determine the most influential delegates, states, and regions at the 1787 Constitutional Convention by looking at sources of observable influence. RQ1: Are states or regions equally represented on committees? Are committees a source of observable influence? RQ2: Does population of a state or region determine influence? RQ3: Are individual delegates, states, or regions who attended the Annapolis Convention more influential than those who didn't attend? The team hypothesized that: The states and regions would not be equally represented and that the committees would be a source of influence. A state or region with a larger population would have a higher influence score. Those who attended the Annapolis convention would have a higher influence score than those who did not.
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Pub Date : 2015-03-07DOI: 10.1109/ISECON.2015.7119946
Taghreed A. Alhaddab, Suleman Alnatheer
Current Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) research has focused mainly on traditional cognitive outcomes, such as high school math and science test scores or Scholastic Aptitude Test results. Few studies have considered a social cognitive approach embedded within a career choice analysis. This research focused on students' perception of high school science levels of preparation and their math self-efficacy as means to measure the impact of social cognitive abilities on career choices. The study used a nationally representative sample taken from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002/06 (ELS: 2002). The aim of this study was tri-fold: (a) to investigate the influence of students' perception about their high school science preparation on their postsecondary majoring, (b) how students' math self-efficacy impacted their STEM majoring odds, and (c) how the influence of such perceptions and self-efficacies differ by students' race and gender. With a sample size of (n=4449) the multilevel Logistic Regression analysis revealed interesting findings. First, math self-efficacy and high school science preparation perceptions found to be significantly impacting all participants' odds of majoring in STEM. Although all female participants' chances of majoring in STEM were affected by math self-efficacy and perceptions about high school science preparation, subgroup analysis revealed an interesting finding. Female minority students' college choice decisions (majoring in STEM or not) seem to be impacted only by their math self-efficacy. These findings indicate that increasing minorities' and female minorities' math self-efficacy through K-12 interventions would increase their chances of majoring in STEM disciplines. Similarly, enhancing minority students' science preparation during high school years may result in such a desirable outcome.
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Pub Date : 2015-03-07DOI: 10.1109/ISECON.2015.7119905
M. Chandramouli, J. Heffron
Programming skills are becoming increasingly important in both academia and industry. While this signifies numerous opportunities for students, it also inherently involves the challenge of preparing students suitably for these opportunities. Students, especially those at the beginner level, encounter difficulties when learning to program and the lack of efficient tools to overcome such difficulties can affect students' motivation. Over time, this creates to a drastic and negative impact in their attitude towards `learning programming', which is undesirable for student success in engineering education. To rectify this, a suitable approach that can motivate students needs to be developed to change students' mindset towards learning programming. To this end, to facilitate interactive and fun-filled learning, this research employs a learner-centric, user-friendly Virtual Environment (VE) to teach programming concepts. The impact of this research extends beyond engineering and technology education as this framework can serve as a tool to strengthen STEM education and enhance general programming literacy.
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Pub Date : 2015-03-07DOI: 10.1109/ISECON.2015.7119942
Matthew Morrison
In this paper, a novel formalized teaching method is presented for encouraging excellence in undergraduate student performance. This approach is a modified implementation of the teaching method used at the Naval Nuclear Power Training Command, which was made more appropriate for civilian engineering undergraduate students. The objective of this method is to prepare students academically, creatively, and morally, and to engender ideals of integrity, professionalism, and lifelong learning and teaching. The presented teaching method has three stages. First, students are required to perform daily assignments, which constitute the fundamental definitions, equations and concepts of the course material are broken up into "Topical Guide Objectives" (TGOs). This stage ensures students are taught the necessary background material - a major factor in engineering dropout rates - and gives the students opportunity to become familiar with how the professor phrases questions for quizzes and exams. Second, students are given example questions in class which use the TGO fundamentals to solve complex problems. Third, students are presented with "Combining Concepts" questions, which included quotes from industry leaders in order to test a student's ability to critically think, and encourages performance-based learning as opposed to rote memorization. This method was implemented at the University of South Florida for five undergraduate Computer Architecture courses, one section of Foundations of Engineering, and subsequently in one section of the Advanced Digital Systems course at the University of Mississippi. Using the same grading scales as previous semesters, students achieved a 13.5% improvement in median performance and covered significantly more material. Many students said they used the methods learned in the course to improve their study habits in subsequent courses. Additionally, many students expressed that they were better prepared for job interviews in the material covered in my course.
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Pub Date : 2015-03-07DOI: 10.1109/ISECON.2015.7119915
C. Clark, Tiffany W. Ardley, Jason T. Black
In its first year of existence, the Program of Excellence in STEM (PE-STEM) at Florida A&M University (FAMU) is designed to provide a model for increasing the recruitment, retention and graduation of STEM majors at the institution through mentoring and research involvement. In addition to also providing advisement and professional development of participants, the program focus is on area high school students and entering college freshmen with the goal to increase the participation of these students from underrepresented groups in STEM disciplines. PE-STEM uses a 3-tiered approach concentrating on recruitment, retention and graduation, including a nearly four-week long Summer Academy, as well as monthly workshops throughout the academic year. One of the aims of the interdisciplinary PE-STEM program is provide a student cohort with mentoring from faculty and undergraduate students, as well as the opportunity to participate in actual on-going research in STEM-related disciplines under the direction of faculty. These activities have been monitored over the initial year of the program to determine their actual effectiveness on the attitudes toward, participation in, and desire to pursue degrees in STEM-related fields of the participating students.
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Pub Date : 2015-03-07DOI: 10.1109/ISECON.2015.7119928
M. Issapour, Angela M. Kelly
This pilot study explores the relationship between engineering technology students' performance in their first engineering class and their SAT score, interest in science, and gender. This study is based upon data collected from an introductory electric circuits theory class in fall of 2013. The students' SAT scores (both composite and math and verbal as separate items) were obtained and their interest in science was measured by their selection of high school science electives beyond what was required for graduation - both Living Environment and Earth Science are high school courses that typically fulfill the NYS Regents requirements. It is particularly interesting to note whether the students took Physics and/ or Chemistry in high school. The two dominant factors discovered in this study indicate that students' SAT scores, particularly SAT Math, along with their performance in optional extra science classes, namely, Physics and Chemistry, explained approximately 80% of the variance of the engineering and technology students' grades in their introductory course. The broader impact of this study for the engineering education community is to help gain a better understanding of factors in high school preparation or background that may affect their performance as freshmen in the engineering technology curriculum. The results of this study may be used to assist enrollment management, recruitment, and course scheduling at the college level. These results may also be used by high school counselors to advise students interested in pursuing engineering and technology careers. This study will inform efforts to improve retention in engineering technology majors.
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Pub Date : 2015-03-07DOI: 10.1109/ISECON.2015.7119931
G. Grabarnik, Serge Yaskolko
In this paper we analyze the outputs of the Placement Test for wide range of campuses and years and respective results in followed math classes both in terms of grades earned and retention rates. The paper outlines current “state of the art” in the area and introduces an extensive data collected, together with its discussion and interpretation. The paper considers an integrated approach for the whole sequence of math and science classes the student needs to take to succeed in her/his program. The paper analyzes both “typical” and “exceptional” bodies of data, separated based on two major criteria: accepting/rejecting Placement Test recommendations and consecutive performance.
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Pub Date : 2015-03-07DOI: 10.1109/ISECON.2015.7119903
Andrew Huang
Computer programs, constructed to facilitate the development of the technological world, are created with different objectives for different target platforms. As a result, different languages may exhibit significantly different run times when performing specific tasks. In a world where computer programming is instrumental in STEM education, computer languages are often utilized to perform mathematical calculations in classrooms. In this experiment, I compared different run time speeds for Python, C, and Java on Cygwin, Linux, and MacAir to compare the languages' run times. The purpose of this research paper and poster is to demonstrate, test, analyze, and utilize knowledge of the varying speeds of languages to promote the educational use of computer languages. This data can be applied by utilizing certain languages when paired with different platforms to enhance and accelerate student learning in the classroom.
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Pub Date : 2015-03-07DOI: 10.1109/ISECON.2015.7119909
Ugwuogo Onwuka, Ivette Pineda, Tess Stepakoff
During the summer of 2013, a group of high school Juniors from Newburgh Free Academy joined the program NetSci High (2013-2014) and had the opportunity to spend ten days at Boston University to learn more about network science. While there, the students learned about what networks are, how they are used, and why they are important. Consequently, they planned to combine a shared interest of literature and network analysis to explore contemporary fiction. After much discussion and the direction from Mrs. Sheetz, their mentor from the Network Science Center at West Point, the students endeavored to develop a model for a character and plot analysis of the novel Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling. Character significance would be quantified through network metrics such as betweenness and degree centrality. Additionally, temporal and spatial visualizations of the character interactions would facilitate the analysis. The team, consisting of Ugwuogo Onwuka, Jr., Ivette Pineda, Tess Stepakoff, and indirectly Mrs. Sheetz, began in September 2013 after deciding on the popular novel. The objective of the research was to determine character centrality as well as overall network complexity in this contemporary novel.
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