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Conference proceeding
Evaluating the impact of an underwater robotics competition: questions, methodologies and findings
American Society for Engineering Education Annual Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia (06/26/2011 - 06/29/2011)
06/2011
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https://hdl.handle.net/2376/2822
Abstract
The Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center has been sponsoring regional and international underwater robotics competitions for 10 years. In that period, thousands of students and educators have taken part in the independent evaluation of the program, reported annually to the National Science Foundation. The evaluation sheds light on the impacts of involvement in this hands-on engineering design competition. Evaluation topics include changes in student awareness of and interest in pursuing a marine science, technology, engineering and/or math (STEM) career, interest in studying STEM topics, STEM knowledge and skills, and SCANS skills. This paper provides an overview of the evaluation results for the past three competition seasons, 2008 to 2010. It begins with background on the MATE Center and the competition, which provides context for following two sections: evaluation methodology and findings. Finally, the paper closes with a discussion of conclusions and next steps.
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- Title
- Evaluating the impact of an underwater robotics competition: questions, methodologies and findings
- Creators
- Candiya Mann (Author)
- Conference
- American Society for Engineering Education Annual Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia (06/26/2011 - 06/29/2011)
- Academic Unit
- Social and Economic Sciences Research Center
- Identifiers
- 99900502596901842
- Copyright
- In copyright ; openAccess ; http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ ; http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/OpenAccess
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding