Work in Progress: Openness, Conscientiousness, Self-direction, and Mindset in First-year Engineering Students

Cavalli, Matthew; Grice, Anetra

doi:10.18260/1-2--35674

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“…For some groups, there were additional positive correlations based on grade in the first math course (all FTIACs, female survey responders). No similar correlations between first semester math GPA and student success were identified for Fall 2019 students [15].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 82%

“…The questions were adapted from [17,18] to focus on mathematical intelligence rather than intelligence in general. The questions were modified because results from a similar survey of CEAS FTIAC students in Fall 2019 [15] showed few statistical correlations between responses to the general mindset questions and first semester GPA or second semester enrollment. Questions related to self-direction [14] and confidence in eventually graduating from either college in general or WMU in particular were also included.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In addition to mindset, previous research has shown that a student's level of self-direction can be related to academic success [6,13,14]. This prior work led to the inclusion of questions related to Conscientiousness, Openness, Mindset, and Self-Direction (in addition to self-efficacy) in the survey administered to first-year students in CEAS at the start of the Fall 2019 semester [15]. Surprisingly, very few personality aspects were found to have a statistically significant correlations with either students' first semester GPA or their retention to the second semester.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Self-Efficacy, Mathematical Mindset, and Self-Direction in First-Year Engineering Students

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Grice

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings

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confidence: 82%

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confidence: 99%

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Self-Efficacy, Mathematical Mindset, and Self-Direction in First-Year Engineering Students

Cavalli,

Grice

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings

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“…The survey also contained questions about mindset, self-direction, and student self-efficacy (e.g., confidence in eventually graduating). Results of the start-ofsemester survey have been presented elsewhere 18,19 . The purpose of this work is to compare responses to the end-of-semester surveys with those from the start of the term as well as to investigate correlations from the end-of-term responses with subsequent student retention.…”

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Correlations of Student Personality Components with First-Year Student Success and Retention

Cavalli,

Grice

2022 ASEE - North Central Section Conference Proceedings

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For the past three years, first year students in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Western Michigan University have been invited to participate in a survey focused on specific personality traits including Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Mindset, and Self-Direction. Students were invited to participate in both a start-of-semester survey and an end-ofsemester version during their first fall semester. Correlations of student responses on the startof-semester survey with first semester GPA, retention to second semester, and retention to second year have been reported elsewhere. The current paper investigates changes in student responses across the two surveys and correlations with student success and retention for the Fall 2019 and Fall 2020 survey administrations. Results show that correlations between survey responses at the start of the first semester and the end of the first semester with retention to the second year are significantly different. Factors related to academic performance (e.g., high school and first-semester GPA) are more strongly correlated than start-of-semester survey responses. Personality trait correlations with retention were found to be much stronger when taken from the end-of-semester survey.

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Work in Progress: Openness, Conscientiousness, Self-direction, and Mindset in First-year Engineering Students

Cited by 2 publications

References 16 publications

Self-Efficacy, Mathematical Mindset, and Self-Direction in First-Year Engineering Students

Self-Efficacy, Mathematical Mindset, and Self-Direction in First-Year Engineering Students

Correlations of Student Personality Components with First-Year Student Success and Retention

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