{"id":13,"date":"2020-09-01T13:52:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T20:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/verdin\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2025-09-19T09:50:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T16:50:39","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/verdin\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My research objective is to broaden participation in engineering by focusing on issues pertaining to access and persistence for students\u2019 who are racial\/ethnic minorities, women, first in their families to attend college (i.e., first-generation college students), socioeconomic status, and those who live at the intersection of multiple identities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Approaches I use to address my research goals:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mainly, my approach to data collection involves administering survey questionnaires to undergraduate engineering students across multiple institutions. I also take advantage of the nationally-representative datasets to understand larger student trends. I use statistical methods such as structural equation modeling, multilevel modeling, mediation\/moderation process analysis, multiple\/logistic regression, and an array of parametric\/non-parametric tests to answer my broader question of access and persistence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To a lighter extent, I also conduct qualitative interviews with a small sample of students to capture their experiences at a more granular level. Learning about students\u2019 experiences and trajectories provides a deeper understanding of issues pertaining to access and persistence. Also, when warranted, students interview data provide a springboard towards the development of survey questionnaires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-2\">My research objective is to broaden participation in engineering by focusing on issues pertaining to access and persistence for students\u2019 who are racial\/ethnic minorities, women, first in their families to attend college (i.e., first-generation college students), socioeconomic status, and those who live at the intersection of multiple identities. Approaches I use to address my research&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/verdin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/verdin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/verdin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/verdin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/98"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/verdin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/verdin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/verdin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}