Developing growth mindsets in engineering students: a systematic literature review of interventions

AL Campbell, I Direito, M Mokhithi - European Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Dropout from engineering studies has been linked to 'fixed mindset'beliefs of intelligence as
fixed-at-birth that make students more likely to disengage when facing new challenges. In …

The role of teaching staff in fostering perceived employability of university students

G Petruzziello, MG Mariani, D Guglielmi… - Studies in Higher …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
For university students, perceived employability is gaining growing importance in dealing
with occupational uncertainty. However, how perceived employability is shaped in the …

Student motivations and barriers toward online and in-person office hours in STEM courses

JL Hsu, M Rowland-Goldsmith… - CBE—Life Sciences …, 2022 - Am Soc Cell Biol
Office hours are one of the most common support mechanisms found in courses. Despite the
prevalence of office hours in life sciences classes, there has been little investigation of how …

Teaching animal behavior online: A primer for the pandemic and beyond

M Hughes, SM Bertram, AM Young, JW Merry… - Ethology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Behavior courses face numerous challenges when moving to an online environment, as has
been made necessary by the COVID‐19 pandemic. These challenges occur largely …

Building faculty-student relationships in higher education

M Dingel, G Punti - Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This qualitative research study explores student perceptions of how they build relationships
with faculty, including factors that facilitate or undermine these relationships. Building such …

(Un) equal demands and opportunities: Conceptualizing student navigation in undergraduate engineering programs

WC Lee, JL Hall, M Josiam… - Journal of Engineering …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background It is well known that earning a bachelor's degree in engineering is a demanding
task, but ripe with opportunity. For students from historically excluded demographic groups …

Exploring Variations in STEM Instructors' Approaches to Office Hours

D Forsythe, RM Green, JL Hsu - CBE—Life Sciences Education, 2024 - lifescied.org
Office hours are an integral component of science, technology, engineering, and math
(STEM) courses at nearly all colleges and universities. Despite their ubiquity as a support …

Professional staff making a difference: Cultural change in higher education

EK Briody, FR Rodríguez-Mejía, EJ Berger - Innovative Higher Education, 2022 - Springer
Higher education scholarship is focused largely on professors who guide students in their
learning and students who participate in the educational process. The contributions of …

[PDF][PDF] A cluster-based approach to understanding students' resource-usage patterns in an active, blended, and collaborative learning environment

NA Stites, E Berger, J Deboer, JF Rhoads - International Journal of …, 2019 - purdue.edu
Data on how pedagogical innovations in engineering education impact the students'
experiences and achievement are often lacking. The goal of this study was to identify and …

Frequency, topic, and preferences: Tracking student engagement with several modalities of student–instructor contact in a first‐year course

BE Bingham, V Rea, L Robertson, MA Smith… - FEBS Open …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Meaningful student–instructor interactions during an undergraduate degree course can
have important effects on student learning. The format by which those interactions are made …