Operationalizing and monitoring student support in undergraduate engineering education

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dc.contributor.authorLee, Walter C.en
dc.contributor.authorHall, Janice L.en
dc.contributor.authorGodwin, Allisonen
dc.contributor.authorKnight, David B.en
dc.contributor.authorVerdin, Dinaen
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-03T14:31:46Zen
dc.date.available2021-12-03T14:31:46Zen
dc.date.issued2021-10-08en
dc.description.abstractBackground Supporting undergraduate students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) has been a persistent need. However, assessing the impact of support efforts can prove challenging as it is difficult to operationalize student support and subsequently monitor the combined impacts of the various supports to which students have access simultaneously. Purpose/Hypothesis This paper describes the development of the STEM student perspectives of support instrument (STEM-SPSI) and explores how perceptions of student support constructs vary across engineering students. Design/Method Following best practices for instrument development, forming the STEM-SPSI consisted of an iterative cycle of feedback from various STEM stakeholders and two rounds of pilot testing with students at multiple institutions. We employed factor analysis to identify student-support constructs and conduct validation procedures on the instrument. Results Results suggest that student support can be conceptualized as a combination of 12 constructs. The STEM-SPSI can help engineering educators evaluate their student-support mechanisms at an academic-unit level. Conclusions The practical contribution of the STEM-SPSI is to assist colleges in monitoring the extent to which their portfolio of support mechanisms is perceived as helpful by undergraduate students. This work makes a theoretical contribution to the model of cocurricular support that undergirds the instrument by producing empirical evidence for its constructs.en
dc.description.notesU.S. National Science Foundation, Grant/Award Number: 1704350en
dc.description.sponsorshipU.S. National Science FoundationNational Science Foundation (NSF) [1704350]en
dc.description.versionPublished versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1002/jee.20431en
dc.identifier.eissn2168-9830en
dc.identifier.issn1069-4730en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/106825en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/en
dc.subjectassessmenten
dc.subjectevaluationen
dc.subjectinstrument developmenten
dc.subjectstudent supporten
dc.subjectsurvey researchen
dc.titleOperationalizing and monitoring student support in undergraduate engineering educationen
dc.title.serialJournal of Engineering Educationen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypetexten

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