Participatory Action Research (PAR) as Formative Assessment of a  STEM Summer Bridge Program

Tripathy, Susan Thomson; Chandra, Kavitha; Reichlen, Diane

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“…This activity was adapted from the "live your core values exercise" at Taproot.com [6 ] Models for the focus group activities in the second and third focus group were suggested by staff at Ekjut, a NGO located in Jharkhand, India that uses PAR methods extensively [7]. These activities have also been used effectively in a summer bridge program for incoming first-year engineering students [5]. In our project, these activities were adapted to focus on teamwork experiences.…”

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“…teamwork projects) and using this information to create action steps towards positive change [3]. Since the 1960's, PAR has been used extensively in educational settings [4] and was used successfully to improve student satisfaction with an engineering summer bridge program for entering first-year students [5]. A wide variety of research methods may be used within PAR, including focus groups, surveys, mapping exercises, and interviews [3].…”

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Inclusive Teamwork: Using Participatory Action Research (PAR) to Improve Teamwork Projects in Intro to Mechanical Engineering

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ASEE-NE 2022 Proceedings

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She is currently working with two professors on a research project to improve teamwork in Mechanical Engineering at UMass Lowell. She has been facilitating focus groups for this project and collecting information to be utilized and analyzed for the project. She has previously worked in the Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning field before and hopes to pursue a career in sustainable HVAC/R design. Nathan AgyemanNathan is a fourth-year student at the University of Massachusetts Lowell's Francis College of Engineering, where he is pursuing a degree in Computer Engineering (BS). He's highly involved with various organizations on campus. He's currently working in two research groups where he's a lead facilitator in the Exclusive Teamwork project where he collects analyzes information, while being a lead contributor in the Product Life-Cycle Management group where he participates in making connections between computer security and Product Life-Cycle Management. The past summer, Nathan had an opportunity to intern within cybersecurity involving penetration testing and hopes to pursue a career in cyber security consulting.

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Inclusive Teamwork: Using Participatory Action Research (PAR) to Improve Teamwork Projects in Intro to Mechanical Engineering

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Tripathy

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“…Each focus group took approximately one hour. The focus groups were conducted within the framework of participatory action research (PAR), which emphasizes listening and learning from the voices of all participants and creating a safe space for open discussion and problem-solving [29] [30]. A member of the research team who is a social scientist facilitated these groups.…”

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confidence: 99%

Work in Progress: Engaging Graduate Students as Co-creators of Educational Modules on an Interdisciplinary Topic

Chandra,

Kershaw,

Tripathy

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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Co-creation in higher education is the process where students collaborate with instructors in designing the curriculum and associated educational material. This can take place in different scenarios, such as integrating co-creation into an ongoing course, modifying a previously taken course, or while creating a new course. In this Work-In-Progress, we investigate training and formative assessment models for preparing graduate students in engineering to participate as cocreators of educational material on an interdisciplinary topic. The topic of cyber-physical systems engineering and product lifecycle management with application to structural health monitoring is considered in this co-creation project. This entails not only topics from different disciplines of civil, computer, electrical and environmental engineering, business, and information sciences, but also humanistic issues of sustainability, environment, ethical and legal concerns in data-driven decision-making that support the control of cyber-physical systems.Aside from the objective of creating modules accessible to students with different levels of disciplinary knowledge, the goal of this research is to investigate if the co-creation process and the resulting modules also promote interest and engagement in interdisciplinary research. A literature survey of effective training approaches for co-creation and associated educational theories is summarized. For students, essential training components include providing (i) opportunities to align their interests, knowledge, skills, and values with the topic presented; (ii) experiential learning on the topic to help develop and enhance critical thinking and question posing skills, and (iii) safe spaces to reflect, voice their opinions, concerns, and suggestions. In this research we investigate the adaption of project-based learning (PjBL) strategies and practices to support (i) and (ii) and focus groups for participatory action research (PAR) as safe spaces for reflection, feedback, and action in item (iii). The co-creation process is assessed through qualitative analysis of data collected through the PjBL activities and PAR focus groups and other qualitative data (i.e., focus group transcripts, interview transcripts, project materials, fieldnotes, etc.). The eventual outcome of the co-creation process will be an on-line course module that is designed to be integrated in existing engineering graduate and undergraduate courses at four different institutions, which includes two state universities and two that are historically black colleges and universities. MotivationThis research investigates novel approaches to engage students in better understanding the challenges brought about by new technologies such as cyber-physical systems (CPS) and practices such as product lifecycle management (PLM) that aim to integrate environmental sustainability, ethical use of data and other societal factors throughout the lifecycle of a system or product. The goal is to produce insightful educational modules on these topics that c...

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“…Research skills are introduced through engineering design projects, wherein students learn to solve problems as a team. A more detailed description of RAMP has been presented by Tripathy et al [1], [2].…”

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Engaging Women Engineering Undergraduates as Peer Facilitators in Participatory Action Research Focus Groups

Tripathy,

Chandra,

Hsu

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings

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Her doctoral research was funded by a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation grant, and utilized ethnographic fieldwork in rural Bihar, India, to analyze the politics and artistic development of a local dance form. From 1995-2007, Tripathy taught behavioral sciences at Middlesex Community College (MCC), where she was an active participant and researcher in MCC's extensive community service-learning program. In 2007, she became the Director of Research at Germaine Lawrence, a residential treatment center for adolescent girls in Arlington MA, focusing on program evaluation and outcomes after discharge. Since 2011, Dr. Tripathy has been teaching in the Sociology department at University of Massachusetts Lowell. She received teaching awards for applied and experiential learning in 2013 and 2014, was promoted to Associate Teaching Professor in 2018, and received the UMass Lowell Teaching Excellence Award in Sociology in 2018. From 2016-2019, Dr. Tripathy was the Director of the Bachelor of Liberal Arts program, an interdisciplinary major with an enrollment of 250 undergraduate students. During 2018-2020, she collaborated with Dr. Kavitha Chandra to utilize participatory action research (PAR) as an evaluation approach for the Research, Academics, and Mentoring Pathways (RAMP) summer program for first-year women engineering students.

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Participatory Action Research (PAR) as Formative Assessment of a STEM Summer Bridge Program

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References 11 publications

Inclusive Teamwork: Using Participatory Action Research (PAR) to Improve Teamwork Projects in Intro to Mechanical Engineering

Inclusive Teamwork: Using Participatory Action Research (PAR) to Improve Teamwork Projects in Intro to Mechanical Engineering

Work in Progress: Engaging Graduate Students as Co-creators of Educational Modules on an Interdisciplinary Topic

Engaging Women Engineering Undergraduates as Peer Facilitators in Participatory Action Research Focus Groups

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