Name
Title | ||
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Work in progress: How do first-year engineering students develop as self-directed learners? |
Abstract | ||
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Although self-direction is among the most critical skills required of today's engineering graduates, the complex processes through which individuals develop the attitudes, beliefs, and skills of lifelong, self-directed learners remains unclear. In this ongoing mixed-methods investigation, we draw on existing motivation and self-regulated learning theories to examine how undergraduate students at two institutions develop as self-directed learners during their first two years of their engineering programs. Preliminary findings indicate that both groups of first-year students make progress as self-directed learners, even after their first semester of college. However, the data indicate marked differences in specific areas of self-directed learner growth at the two institutions. Compared to those at the large public university, students at the small private college report stronger learning goal orientations, help-seeking behaviors, and metacognitive strategy use. We discuss how the learning opportunities and environments may contribute to these differences in learner development. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2012 | 10.1109/FIE.2012.6462378 | FIE |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
continuing professional development,educational institutions,engineering education,engineering graduates,engineering programs,first-year engineering students,lifelong learning,metacognitive strategy,public university,self-directed learner growth,self-regulated learning theory,goal-orienatation,help-seeking,metacognition,self-directed learning,self-regulated learning | Help-seeking,Self-regulated learning,Sociology,Work in process,Learning theory,Engineering education,Knowledge management,Metacognition,Mathematics education,Lifelong learning,Autodidacticism | Conference |
ISSN | ISBN | Citations |
0190-5848 E-ISBN : 978-1-4673-1351-3 | 978-1-4673-1351-3 | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 0 | 6 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| boris taratutin | 1 | 0 | 0.34 |
| taylor lobe | 2 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Jonathan Stolk | 3 | 2 | 6.78 |
| Robert Martello | 4 | 0 | 1.69 |
| katherine c chen | 5 | 0 | 0.68 |
| roberta j herter | 6 | 0 | 1.01 |