Classroom Goal Structures Impact Mindsets: A study of Undergraduate Engineering Students at a Hispanic-Serving Institution
Presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Conference held in Philadelphia, April 2024
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Presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Conference held in Philadelphia, April 2024
Project Status: Pending Publication
Accepted in the Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering Authors: Dina Verdín and A. Lili Castillo Abstract Establishing and sustaining a sense of belonging is a necessary human motivation with particular implications for […]
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International Journal of Engineering Education Access to Full Article here Authors: Carlos L. Pérez and Dina Verdín Abstract Implementing mastery learning in an undergraduate engineering course can be cumbersome, requiring instructors to restructure their evaluation […]
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Brief Overview of Study Students, like all people, have elements of both growth and fixed mindsets. Carlo Dweck’s work claims that people can endorse both a fixed and growth mindset. Yet, there remains a gap […]
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Presented in the 2021 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference Objective This research study examined how first-generation college students’ mathematics and physics identity support the development of an engineering identity and how the three STEM identities […]
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I have been working on a project intended to understand how first-generation college students’ funds of knowledge supports their persistence in engineering. This project is in collaboration with Drs. Jessica Smith and Juan Lucena from […]