Flipping the digital switch: Affective responses of STEM undergraduates to emergency remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic

Minichiello, Angela; Lawanto, Oenardi; Goodridge, Wade H.; Iqbal, Assad; Asghar, Muhammad Sohaib

doi:10.1016/j.plas.2022.100043

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“…The findings and the corresponding quotes from our research align with the findings from other research, which emphasize the importance of faculty in the wellbeing of undergraduate engineering students. Especially during COVID-19, when a transition was made to emergency remote teaching, faculty support was perceived as vital to their wellbeing by engineering undergraduates, as it helped reduce the students’ stress and feelings of uncertainty [ 9 ].…”

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Perceived Factors Contributing to the Subjective Wellbeing of Undergraduate Engineering Students: An Exploratory Study

Asghar

Minichiello

Iqbal

2022

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Engineering education is perceived to be a tough field of study with detrimental effects on the mental health of undergraduate engineering students. High levels of anxiety and depression are reported among this population. Overall, mental health research is often biased toward looking at mental health from a deficit perspective and investigating mental health as a negative phenomenon. This trend also persists in engineering education research. The purpose of this exploratory study, therefore, is to investigate the condition of subjective wellbeing (SWB) of undergraduate engineering students to understand the factors that they perceive as positively contributing to their overall wellbeing in an engineering college environment. Qualitative data from eight undergraduate engineering students interviewed in fall 2021 in the college of engineering at a land grant public institution in the western USA were thematically analyzed. The resulting 11 themes were then re-grouped and conceptualized into 7 factors (faculty support, learning experiences, support environment, financial support, engineering practice opportunities, task organization, and task orientation) for clear mapping, understanding, and explanation. The outcomes from this research have positive implications for the SWB of undergraduate engineering students, with support from their educational institutions.

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“…Other studies point to stress inherent in engineering education environments by reporting on high levels of stress among undergraduate engineering students [ 3 , 5 ]. Most recently, the COVID-19 pandemic has been shown to negatively affect the overall adverse mental health condition of engineering students [ 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 ].…”

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Perceived Factors Contributing to the Subjective Wellbeing of Undergraduate Engineering Students: An Exploratory Study

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Minichiello

Iqbal

2022

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“…Despite an uptick in mental health studies in engineering education in the context of the COVID‐19 pandemic, the emphasis of these studies also largely focused on students' mental health problems. One exception is a small body of work (Lawanto et al, 2022; Minichiello et al, 2022) that examined both positive and negative affective responses of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) undergraduates to emergency remote teaching.…”

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Two sides to every psyche: Implications of positive psychology for “mental health” research in engineering education

Asghar

Minichiello

2022

J of Engineering Edu

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“…Communication, reading, and writing abilities are all necessary for everyone. For instance, statements about reading and writing that are appropriately learnt from the beginning that serve as educational benchmarks (Nopilda & Kristiawan, 2018). Despite limited activity during the Covid-19 Pandemic, SDI Unggulan Al-Maslachah continued to conduct the School Literacy Movement for students.…”

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“…With the concept of distancing learning, the difficulties associated with teachers' inability to manage online learning, and the fact that not all students had smart mobile phone capable of accessing online learning, were not an excuse for not holding learning during the Covid-19 pandemic. The printed modules could be used in the replacement of information technology gadgets to facilitate learning during a pandemic (Minichiello et al, 2022) To continuously improve the quality of online education, educational institutions must take many critical steps. First, improving the facilities and infrastructure to enable online learning, including infrastructure, a Learning Management System (LMS), and appropriate repositories.…”

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Strengthening School Literature Movement in Elementary School During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Istiq'faroh

Wibowo

Lestari

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Literacy development in Indonesia is still reported to be low. This is written in the findings of a 2020 program for international student assessment (PISA) survey, which found that Indonesia ranked 72 out of 79 countries in the world in reading literacy. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the implementation of the school literacy movement program was done online. The purpose of this study is to investigate the implementation of SLM throughout the Covid-19 era, as well as the barriers encountered by teachers during the SLM implementation process. The case study method is used in this work, which takes a qualitative approach. Data was collected by observation, interviews, and documentation, and data was analyzed utilizing triangulation techniques in three stages: collection, reduction, and conclusion. The findings revealed that schools were still practicing the three steps of SLM, namely habituation, development, and learning. During the epidemic, literacy exercises are introduced in which students are directed to be productive in their work through writing tasks. The work of the students is published in the form of a book. The challenge to implement SLM during the Covid-19 pandemic has been teachers' inability to manage students' reading comprehension exercises properly.

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Flipping the digital switch: Affective responses of STEM undergraduates to emergency remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic

Cited by 19 publications

References 27 publications

Perceived Factors Contributing to the Subjective Wellbeing of Undergraduate Engineering Students: An Exploratory Study

Perceived Factors Contributing to the Subjective Wellbeing of Undergraduate Engineering Students: An Exploratory Study

Two sides to every psyche: Implications of positive psychology for “mental health” research in engineering education

Strengthening School Literature Movement in Elementary School During the Covid-19 Pandemic

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