Journal article
Development of a survey to explore out-of-class engagement of engineering students
The International journal of engineering education., Vol.33(4)
2017
Abstract
This study describes the development and validation of the Postsecondary Student Engagement (PosSE) Survey, an inventory designed to assess indicators of affective engagement associated with student disposition toward their academic discipline, career and themselves, other students, and faculty. The PosSE Survey was developed to elucidate the relationships between STEM students’ out-of-class activity involvement, factors that influence such involvement, and their perceptions of their learning outcomes. Two rounds of reliability analysis and exploratory factor analysis (EFA) were conducted on data from 129 survey respondents. The first analysis examined the internal consistency of the original items developed to assess each construct of the PosSE Survey and validate the instrument. We re-analyzed Cronbach’s coefficient alpha of each construct on the instrument after the EFA to examine how the items and related latent constructs were improved in terms of internal consistency reliability. These analyses provided results that helped develop and validate the27 items and 7 factors of the PosSE Survey. Future work requires wider survey distribution and larger sample sizes so that data can be used to create a more nuanced profile of student engagement, particularly among underrepresented student populations.
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- Title
- Development of a survey to explore out-of-class engagement of engineering students
- Creators
- Denise Rutledge Simmons (Author)Yincheng Ye (Author)Nathaniel J. Hunsu (Author)OLUSOLA ADESOPE (Author) - Washington State University, UNKNOWN
- Publication Details
- The International journal of engineering education., Vol.33(4)
- Academic Unit
- Education, College of
- Identifiers
- 99900602827901842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article