Assessing Women In Engineering (Awe): Assessment Results On Women Engineering Students' Beliefs

Rescaling the Longitudinal Assessment of Engineering Self-Efficacy V3.0 for Undergraduate Engineering Students

“…To assess multifaceted aspects of engineering students' self-efficacy-related beliefs in the United States, the Longitudinal Assessment of Engineering Self-Efficacy (LAESE) instrument was developed through several iterations as part of the NSF (National Science Foundation)-funded Assessing Women in Engineering (AWE) project (Marra & Bogue, 2006;Marra, Bogue, Rodgers, & Shen, 2007;Marra, Moore, Schuurman, & Bogue, 2004;Marra, Schuurman, Moore, & Bogue, 2005). While the initial version, LAESE V1.0 started with 42 items for nine constructs, the latest version, LAESE V3.0 with 31 items, is scaled on 7-point Likert-type responses, from 0 (strongly disagree) to 6 (strongly agree) to assess students' perceptions of six constructs: (a) Engineering Self-Efficacy I, (b) Engineering Self-Efficacy II, (c) Engineering Career Success Expectations, (d) Feelings of Inclusion, (e) Coping Self-Efficacy, and (f) Math Outcome Expectations (see Appendix A).…”

Wellness Strategies For Women Engineers: An Interdisciplinary Course Designed To Help Women Engineering Students Succeed

“…Twenty-four undergraduate women engineering students participated in the pilot offering of the course. Data gathered from the instruments described above will be combined with retention tracking and results from participation in AWE Longitudinal Assessment of Engineering Self Efficacy survey (LAESE) 2 to determine how effective the course is in reaching its objectives. Early data indicate that the course is successful in the short term with students indicating an increased awareness of their environment and ability to develop appropriate success strategies.…”

Increasing Enrollment Of Minority Women In Engineering

“…But unfortunately, the percentage of minority black engineers is very low compared to the percentage of their population 2,3 . Among them, the percentage of female black engineers is even lower 4,5 . In order to have a better statistical data, the percentage of male and female students in a number of engineering courses in both the Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering departments at AAMU were calculated and presented in Fig.…”