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 Colorado School of Mines.
Funds of Knowledge Survey Instrument
We currently have a manuscript in review that describes our process of developing a survey scale that captured the funds of knowledge of low-income first-generation college students. The ten constructs illustrated below were developed through ethnographic interview data of ten low-income first-generation college students studying engineering. The lived experiences of our sampled participants allow us to understand how their accumulated bodies of knowledge from their households, community, or their work experiences.
