The ISTEP Engineering Education Research Roundtable (E2R2) is a monthly venue for ISTEP faculty, staff, and graduate students, and colleagues and students from other FASE departments, to exchange ideas about engineering education research. E2R2 aims to build a community for engineering education research within ISTEP and FASE, and to inspire ideas and advance scholarship and practices in engineering education. These E2R2 meetings have been co-hosted by Professor Deb Tihanyi and Dr. Qin Liu.
Speaker: Dr. Victoria Kerr
Date/Time: January 29 | 12:00 – 1:00 PM
Room: MY 763
Title: Understanding Engagement in Engineering Student Project Teams
Despite extensive research on improving the effectiveness of student project-teams, low engagement from one or more team members is a common and persistent issue. While previous research has largely focused on individual behaviours and accountability, this work presents a holistic view of student engagement and focuses on the impacts of the team environment on student engagement within the first-year engineering design-team context. Through longitudinal mixed-methods and qualitative studies, it was found that there are significant positive relationships between team dynamics and student engagement, and some of these relationships differ by gender. To facilitate the development of team dynamics and student engagement, six categories of team norms were identified, which can be utilized by instructors to facilitate engagement within their student project-teams. This research contributes to a broader understanding of student engagement in first-year project teams and the importance of team norms and team dynamics within this context.
All are welcome to attend this drop-in session, no registration needed. If you are interested but cannot attend it in person, you are welcome to join us via Zoom:
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