scholarly journals Expanding Understanding Of First Year Engineering Student Retention And Team Effectiveness Through Social Styles Assessment

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Knight ◽  
Jacquelyn Sullivan ◽  
Beverly Louie
Keyword(s):  
Student Retention ◽  
Team Effectiveness ◽  
First Year ◽  
Engineering Student

FACULTY AND STUDENT VIEWS ON ENGINEERING STUDENT TEAM EFFECTIVENESS

1999 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 351-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia F. Mead ◽  
D. Moore ◽  
M. Natishan ◽  
L. Schmidt ◽  
Shirley Vining Brown ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Team Effectiveness ◽  
Engineering Student ◽  
Student Views ◽  
Student Team

10. Irish Students Turning First-Year Transition Obstacles into Successful Progression

2020 ◽  
pp. 225-244
Author(s):  
Vera Sheridan
Keyword(s):  
Student Retention ◽  
First Year ◽  
Comprehensive Overview

Vera Sheridan provides a comprehensive overview of the literature on student retention and progression before discussing the narrative accounts of four Irish students who successfully continued their studies after failing in the first year, seeking to understand how this was achieved.

scholarly journals Analysis of Tinto’s student integration theory in first-year undergraduate computing students of a UK higher education institution

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (2/3) ◽  
pp. 97-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandros Chrysikos ◽  
Ejaz Ahmed ◽  
Rupert Ward
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Retention ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Integration Theory ◽  
First Year ◽  
Higher Education Institution ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Student Integration ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Uk Higher Education

Purpose Retention is one of the key performance indicators in university quality assurance processes. The purpose of this paper is to identify the causes leading to low retention rates for first-year undergraduate computing students in a UK higher education institution (HEI). Design/methodology/approach The study applies Tinto’s student integration theory, and connects it with the behavioural patterns of students. Data were collected from 901 students using Pascarella and Terenzini’s questionnaire (integration scales). This data were combined with student enrolment information and analysed using the structural equation modelling technique. Findings The study results indicate that Tinto’s student integration theory is useful in analysing student retention, but this accounts for only a modest amount of variance in retention. Nevertheless, important relationships amongst student’s initial and later academic goals and commitments have been identified through this new approach to analysing retention. The largest direct effect on retention was accounted for by initial goals and institutional commitments, followed by later goals and institutional commitments. In addition, the results show that academic and social integration constructs can have an influence on the student retention processes. When all, or some, of these relationships are operating towards students’ benefits, appropriate services or programmes, such as student support systems, can have their maximum benefits. Originality/value The authors mapped behavioural-related retention factors using a learning community lens. The study explored students’ social and learning experiences within the context of a UK HEI by employing Tinto’s model. This is the first time the model has been tested in this context.

scholarly journals STUDENT PERCEPTIONS AND USE OF AN INVENTORY TO FACILITATE LEARNING OF INDIVIDUAL TEAM-EFFECTIVENESS

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Kristine Sheridan ◽  
Doug Reeve ◽  
Greg Evans
Keyword(s):  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Team Effectiveness ◽  
Energy Systems ◽  
Engineering Science ◽  
Engineering Student ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Graduate Attributes ◽  
Communication Competencies

Team-based projects have become a common method of modeling real-world experience and meeting required graduate attributes in engineering. In these projects, much of a student’s grade is attributed to work produced by an entire team, creating a need for instruction on how to work effectively as team members in addition to course-content instruction. A web-based tool is in development to create a virtual environment in which students can learn about and improve their individual team-effectiveness competencies through self- and peer-assessments. Framed as a guided reflection, these assessments are facilitated using an inventory which identifies 18 competencies along three aspects of team-effectiveness: Organisational, Relational and Communication competencies [1]. The inventory assesses observable behaviours that translate to specific levels of competency so as to provide a foundation for normalized self- and peer-assessments, as well as provide examples of how to improve. A study to assess student perceptions and use of the inventory was conducted in the Fall 2012 term in two upper year courses. The first course was a third-year course on energy systems that is required of all students in the Energy Option of Engineering Science and the second a fourth-year engineering leadership course which any engineering student can select as an elective. The objective of this study was to determine if students in a required engineering course perceived and used the inventory differently than those who self-selected into an engineering leadership course.

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