{"title":"Debugging: The key to unlocking the mind of a novice programmer?","authors":"Tony Lowe","doi":"10.1109/FIE43999.2019.9028699","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE43999.2019.9028699","url":null,"abstract":"Novice programmers must master two skills to show lasting success: writing code and, when that fails, the ability to debug it. Instructors spend much time teaching the details of writing code but debugging gets significantly less attention. But what if teaching debugging could implicitly teach other aspects of coding better than teaching a language teaching debugging? This paper explores a new theoretical framework, the Theory of Applied Mind for Programming (TAMP), which merges dual process theory with Jerome Bruner’s theory of representations to model the mind of a programmer. TAMP looks to provide greater explanatory power in why novices struggle and suggest pedagogy to bridge gaps in learning. This paper will provide an example of this by reinterpreting debugging literature using TAMP as a theoretical guide. Incorporating new view theoretical viewpoints from old studies suggests a “debugging-first” pedagogy can supplement existing methods of teaching programming and perhaps fill some of the mental gaps TAMP suggests hamper novice programmers.","PeriodicalId":6700,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)","volume":"278 1","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86372238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Graduate Engineering Students Changing Labs Due to Experiences of Bias","authors":"M. Bahnson, M. Wyer, C. Cass, Adam Kirn","doi":"10.1109/FIE43999.2019.9028483","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE43999.2019.9028483","url":null,"abstract":"This WIP research paper describes the experiences of engineering graduate students (EGSs) who changed labs following experiences of bias in graduate engineering education. Experiences of bias may contribute to EGS leaving the field of engineering. As part of a larger multiphase research project to explore the influence of bias on EGS engineering identity (EI), qualitative interviews (n = 30) were conducted exploring EGSs’ experiences of bias. These interviews engaged participants in discussions about their social and personal identities (e.g., sex, race/ethnicity) and explored their perceptions of and experiences with bias. This study focuses on four participants who discussed changing research labs in response to experiences of bias. This paper describes data from these participants as it relates to their experiences of bias, lab change, and differences in their new labs, highlighting the nature of bias experiences and their pervasive effects. Participants described experiences of bias leading them to change their research lab. They reported experiences with advisors, peers, and other faculty that made them feel unwelcome in engineering as a field due to their race or gender. Feelings of not belonging in a lab led this sample of EGS to change labs in an attempt to remain in engineering while removing themselves from negative experiences. We argue that institutions should provide opportunities, understanding, and guidance for students to change labs, and briefly discuss how this might be accomplished. Overall, we offer a perspective that has not been explored in the engineering education literature – specifically, changing labs as an alternative to dropping out or leaving the field in response to experiences of bias.","PeriodicalId":6700,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)","volume":"89 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83866548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Engineering Disciplinary Interests by Gender and Parental Level of Education","authors":"Dina Verdín, Allison Godwin","doi":"10.1109/FIE43999.2019.9028611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE43999.2019.9028611","url":null,"abstract":"This research category work-in-progress paper uses cross-sectional data, collected in the fall of 2017, to understand first-generation and continuing-generation college students’ intended choice of an engineering major. Data for this analysis came from a large-scale survey of 3,711 first-year engineering students from 32 U.S. institutions of which 790 students identified as first-generation college students and 2,072 identified as having one or more parent(s) with a bachelor’s degree or higher (continuing-generation college students). A Welch’s t-test was used to examine the differences in engineering major selection between and within groups. Results from the within-group comparison show that men and women, who are first-generation college students, have similar disciplinary interest as reported in the ASEE Engineering by the Numbers. Most notably women first-generation college students were more likely to choose biomedical, chemical engineering, and other STEM-related degree compared to men first-generation college students. When analyzing the data by gender and examining college generation group differences, we found that women first-generation college students were more likely to choose, civil, computer, construction management, electrical engineering, computer science and, information technology compared to women in the other group. While men first-generation college students were more likely to choose construction management, electrical engineering compared to men in the other group. Enrollment trends of first-generation college students in engineering are difficult to determine, this study provides a first step towards understanding the fields that attract these students.","PeriodicalId":6700,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)","volume":"39 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82782178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Group Level Contextual Support of IT Self-Efficacy on Individual's Choice to Major in IT: A Multilevel Examination of the Rising Tide Raises All Boats Axiom","authors":"Julie A. Rursch, A. Luse","doi":"10.1109/FIE43999.2019.9028472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE43999.2019.9028472","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines group-level social support and barrier effects on the individual intent to major in information technology (IT) using the social cognitive career theory (SCCT.) For the purposes of this program, IT majors are broadly inclusive, encompassing computer science, computer engineering, software engineering, and information systems. A multilevel approach allows examination of how self-efficacy within a group of students at a high school impacts the individual intention to major. The sample is more than 300 students from 40 different high schools across a Midwestern state who enrolled in a year-long inquiry-based educational program on IT-related topics including game design, cyber defense, and robotics. The results showed a higher self-efficacy in IT at the high school level had a strong positive impact on individual student choice to major in IT. This holds true even when the student’s individual self-efficacy in IT had no significant impact. Therefore, the axiom that the rising tide raises all boats holds true.","PeriodicalId":6700,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)","volume":"16 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89073700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What Students Learn and Take Away from a Student-Centered Course on Communication and Professional Skills: Analyzing the Content of Students’ Self-Evaluations","authors":"R. Motschnig, Elisabeth Geiderer","doi":"10.1109/FIE43999.2019.9028432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE43999.2019.9028432","url":null,"abstract":"This Full Paper in the Research-To-Practice Category illustrates what a qualitative content analysis of students’ online self-evaluations revealed about students’ perceived learning and take-away from a student-centered, technology enhanced course on communication and professional skills. The course was offered in a computer science program as part of the Masters’ program. As there is no doubt that graduates benefit from having developed advanced professional skills, it seems worthwhile to explore the ways to promote such skills effectively. In this paper we aim to share the insights we gained from performing a qualitative content analysis of students’ written self-evaluations. These insights are twofold: getting to know the students’ views about their learning and reflecting on the practice and information revealed by employing a qualitative content analysis. The findings indicate that a single student-centered course has the potential to motivate students to become better listeners, extend their perspective, and actively work on improving their interaction, even across cultural boundaries. With these findings in mind, we aim to share engaging and challenging educational practice and inspire, encourage, and call to action educators in the field of mediating professional skills in technically-focused curricula.","PeriodicalId":6700,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)","volume":"17 1","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88867665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developing a Common Mentoring Protocol for ERC Summer Programs Using “As-is, Should-be and To-be” Process","authors":"Zhen Zhao","doi":"10.1109/FIE43999.2019.9028446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE43999.2019.9028446","url":null,"abstract":"The Engineering Research Centers (ERCs), funded by the National Science Foundation, run various summer programs to promote engineering education and engineering careers within the community. To help obtain a successful program experience, ERCs assign each participant a mentor or mentors from center affiliated faculty members, postdoctoral scholars and graduate students. Mentors have expressed concerns with lacking executable guidelines and followable instructions in mentoring the participants. Existing literature has not fully explored the mentoring protocols for engineering summer research programs. This study proposes a series of systematically integrated research to develop a common instructional mentoring protocol for future ERC summer programs by applying “As-is, Should-be and To-be” process.","PeriodicalId":6700,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)","volume":"3 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83301840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Pacheco-Velázquez, Sandra Marlene Viscarra-Campos
{"title":"Exploring critical factors related to reflection, engagement and self-directed learning","authors":"E. Pacheco-Velázquez, Sandra Marlene Viscarra-Campos","doi":"10.1109/FIE43999.2019.9028546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE43999.2019.9028546","url":null,"abstract":"This research article describes the effectiveness of the GOAL Project platform in terms of the main critical success factors that have been detected in the literature. These critical success factors of educational platforms include elements such as Perceived Usefulness, Intention of behavior, Satisfaction, Enjoyment and Resource efficiency. Although there is a large amount of literature that has investigated these critical success factors, there is a limited number of articles that relate these factors to the development of other types of skills, such as the student’s reflection on their own learning, student engagement and self -directed learning. This paper also describes the relationship between critical success factors and the skills that are developed in students.","PeriodicalId":6700,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)","volume":"75 276 1","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83317648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A lecturer profile categorization for evaluating education practice quality","authors":"D. López","doi":"10.1109/FIE43999.2019.9028585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE43999.2019.9028585","url":null,"abstract":"This research-to-practice work in progress paper is focused on creating a categorization of lecturers in order to define quality in their education practice. The reason for this work is that we found that our faculty perceived the time devoted to teaching as something that had no real impact on the progress of their academic careers, whereas the real impact consists of papers published and grants obtained. Our lecturers require from the university an institutional policy that defines strategies and guidelines to favour a quality education, which in turn requires the definition of a teaching evaluation system. However, a single evaluation system cannot be implemented for all teachers. Different teaching profiles must be defined and the lecturers must be evaluated in accordance with the profiles to which they belong. In this paper, a categorization of four lecturer profiles is presented.","PeriodicalId":6700,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)","volume":"33 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88514557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rafael Pinto Granada, S. Botelho, Regina Barwaldt, Maicon Douglas Lussanrriaga, Naraína Zerwes Gentil, D. Espíndola
{"title":"Computational glossary in LIBRAS: an experience in undergraduate program of Information Systems","authors":"Rafael Pinto Granada, S. Botelho, Regina Barwaldt, Maicon Douglas Lussanrriaga, Naraína Zerwes Gentil, D. Espíndola","doi":"10.1109/FIE43999.2019.9028357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE43999.2019.9028357","url":null,"abstract":"The deaf have conquered rights in the area of education and, in recent years, with the increase of the enrollment of deaf people in higher education institutions, there is a need to develop new signs in Brazilian Sign Language (LIBRAS) for specific technical terms of several areas of knowledge and related to computing this scenario is no different. Motivated by the entrance of a deaf student in Information Systems undergraduate program of a Public Institution located in the south of Brazil, this work aims to elaborate technical signals of the Information System courses in LIBRAS and to develop a glossary with an interface adapted for the deaf. The construction of this repository of signs in LIBRAS is based on Vygotsky, who worked on defectology and emphasized the use of signs and symbols for the individual’s cognitive development. The deaf student used the glossary in the classroom, which allowed a better understanding of the contents presented. Pedagogical evaluation was performed through descriptive analysis and data collection using the intensive direct observation method and questionnaires. The computational glossary in deaf education presents the potential to develop the capacities that are deprived by the existing communication difficulties, allowing interaction between deaf students, teachers and interpreters.","PeriodicalId":6700,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)","volume":"18 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89954482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Infographics as a Reflective Assignment Method in Requirements Engineering e-Course?","authors":"Anneli Heimbürger, Ville Isomöttönen","doi":"10.1109/FIE43999.2019.9028528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE43999.2019.9028528","url":null,"abstract":"Our Work in Progress Paper in Innovative Practice Category focuses on how learners’ experience use of infographics in advanced level e-course on requirements engineering (RE). Infographics are visual representations of information in such a way that information can be easily understood at a glance. Most of the previous infographics studies have been conducted in the context of inquiry learning. To complement this research, we studied how learners experience use of infographics as a method for reflective assignment and hence if the usage of infographics supported conceptualization about RE. We adopted a qualitative content analysis approach, applying thematic network analysis to the data received from five case learners. This approach proposes graphical networks as an aid for analyzing and synthesizing qualitative data into basic, organizing, and global themes. The thematic network analysis produced two global, seven organizational, and 53 basic themes. The global themes were named “Visual literacy” and “Conceptualization”. In addition, the e-course supervisor evaluated learners’ infographics according to assessment criteria. Based on these analyses, learners can, using infographics, concentrate on essential topics, distill information, and develop their skills for visual literacy and conceptualization. The results suggest that infographics can be successfully utilized in reflective courses assignments that are typically produced as linear texts.","PeriodicalId":6700,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)","volume":"121 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76675492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}