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Engineering Identity Development within a Classroom Community
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Gray, Christine Allison – ProQuest LLC, 2019
STEM fields, and engineering disciplines in particular, historically have reflected a traditionalist approach to education. For pre-professional students, this context may be highly competitive, and may include an expectation that undergraduates will sink or swim while making their way through a course progression designed to "weed out"…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Professional Identity, Student Development, Undergraduate Students
Investigating Undergraduate Biology Students' Science Identity Production
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Le, Paul T.; Doughty, Leanne; Thompson, Amreen Nasim; Hartley, Laurel M. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2019
Identity production is a complex process in which a person determines who he or she is via internal dialogue and sociocultural participation. Understanding identity production is important in biology education, because students' identities impact classroom experiences and their willingness to persist in the discipline. Thus, we suggest that…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Biology, Self Concept, Student Development
The Relationship between Student Identity Development and the Perception of Political Bias in the College Classroom
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Linvill, Darren L. – College Teaching, 2011
This study explored the relationship between identity development, as gauged by Marcia's identity development construct, and student perception of instructor political bias. Regression analysis was employed to compare participant responses on the Ego Identity Process Questionnaire, a measure of Marcia's construct, with the Political Bias in the…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Measures (Individuals), Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes
A Comparison of Freshmen and Upper Division Students' Preferences for Small and Large Psychology Classes.
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Feigenbaum, Elysa; Friend, Ronald – Teaching of Psychology, 1992
Presents results of a study comparing student class size preferences among first-year college students and upper-division students. Reports that first-year students prefer small classes and upper division students prefer large classes. Concludes that experience in larger classes results in a stronger preference toward the large classes. Urges…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Class Size, Classroom Environment, College Freshmen
In- and Out-of-Class Influences Affecting the Development of Students' Intellectual Orientations. ASHE Annual Meeting Paper.
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Terenzini, Patrick T.; And Others – 1993
This paper estimates the relative importance of three, theoretically interrelated sets of variables on changes in students' intellectual curiosity and interest in learning for its own sake. Variables being analyzed are: (1) students' curricular experiences; (2) students' formal instructional experiences and classroom-related contacts with faculty…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Development, College Students
Speaking for Themselves: Writing Self-Efficacy Beliefs of High- and Low-Apprehensive Writers.
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Wachholz, Patricia B.; Etheridge, Carol Plata – 1996
A study examined differences in writing self-efficacy beliefs among high- and low-apprehensive writers. The Daly-Miller (1975a) Writing Apprehension Test was administered to 43 developmental writers in 3 freshman composition classes. Students scoring plus or minus one standard deviation from the mean for that population were selected for further…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis, Freshman Composition