scholarly journals The role of undergraduate laboratories in the formation of engineering identities: A critical review of the literature

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Winberg ◽  
Simon L. Winberg
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Systematic Reviews ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Undergraduate Engineering ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Engineering Identity

Background: There was growing recognition worldwide by professional engineering bodies, engineering faculties and researchers on the need to pay attention to engineering students’ emerging identities and how they were formed across the trajectory of undergraduate engineering programmes. An increasing number of research studies focused on engineering identity, including systematic reviews of the research literature.Aim: Engineering laboratories were key learning spaces in undergraduate engineering programmes. In the laboratory, students learned to integrate theory and practice, engaged in problem-solving and applied experimental methods. The purpose of this critical review of the literature was to interrogate the impact that learning in engineering laboratories had on emerging professional identities across engineering disciplines and fields.Method: This review built on and extended previous systematic reviews on engineering identity by studying pedagogies in the engineering laboratory through the lens of identity formation. Search terms were consistently applied to eight databases, which yielded 57 empirical studies, after the application of relevance and quality appraisal criteria. Two reviewers independently applied a socio-materialist theoretical framework of identify formation to each study and coded each of the studies into categories aligned with the theoretical framework.Results: The findings of the critical review revealed the temporal, spatial, material, performative and discursive dimensions in engineering identity formation and showed that students’ emerging identities could be affirmed and supported by appropriate laboratory pedagogies.Conclusion: The critical review of the literature concluded that curricular and pedagogical interventions that were better aligned with the dimensions of identity formation were more likely to enhance students’ identification with engineering.

scholarly journals TEACHING TEAMWORK, ETHICS AND EQUITY, AND IMPACT ON SOCIETY AND THE ENVIRONMENT TO UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING STUDENTS: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellie L. Grushcow ◽  
Patricia K. Sheridan
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Leadership Education ◽  
Engineering Curriculum ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Graduate Attributes ◽  
Undergraduate Engineering ◽  
Undergraduate Engineering Education ◽  
The Impact

This paper explores the way in which three graduate attributes have been instructed on, together, in the undergraduate engineering curriculum. In particular, this paper explores how teamwork, ethics & equity, and the impact of engineering on society and the environment are taught together. These three attributes are used as a framing for engineering leadership education to explore how it has been embedded in the curriculum from a graduate attributes perspective. Following systematic literature review principles, this work explores the prevalence and motivations forincorporating these attributes in undergraduate engineering education in Washington Accord signatory countries. Findings indicate that these attributes are not frequently documented as being taught together, and are motivated equally as a design topic as a leadership/entrepreneurship topic.

Poverty and adolescent developmental outcomes: a critical review

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet T.Y. Leung ◽  
Daniel T.L. Shek
Keyword(s):  
Protective Factors ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Developmental Outcomes ◽  
Family Processes ◽  
Psychological Development ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Conceptual Problems ◽  
The Impact

Abstract This paper reviews the impact of poverty on adolescent developmental outcomes. Based on a review of the literature, the impact of poverty on the psychological development of adolescents, the pathways through which poverty operates, and the protective factors of adolescents from the impact of poverty are outlined. The review showed conceptual problems in the literature, including the neglect of attention paid to cultural diversity and intervening processes between poverty and child developmental outcomes. This review also highlights methodological challenges, including the lack of longitudinal and qualitative studies in the field and the problems of using single informant perspective to study dynamic family processes. Recommendations for directions of future research are offered.

Enhancing Occupational Performance through Occupationally Embedded Exercise: A Meta-Analytic Review

1997 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keh-Chung Lin ◽  
Ching-Yi Wu ◽  
Linda Tickle-Degnen ◽  
Wendy Coster
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Occupational Performance ◽  
Nelson Model ◽  
Theoretical Inquiry ◽  
Analytic Review ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Occupation or purposeful activity is the unique historical root of occupational therapy and is thought to enhance health and prevent disability. Nelson's (1988) recent conceptual framework of occupation consolidates the beliefs of occupational therapy. One focus for empirical research and theoretical inquiry is the relationship between occupational form and occupational performance. This article critically analyzes this important part of the Nelson model and meta-analytically summarizes findings of the empirical studies that have examined this relationship. Results of the meta-analysis showed a substantial relationship of occupational form to occupational performance (weighted mean effect size r=0.50) in support of the proposition of the Nelson model that occupation can be analyzed in terms of the relationship between occupational form and occupational performance. The impact of potential moderators on the study findings is explored. Implications for occupational therapy theory and practice are discussed.

scholarly journals Modeling the Use of Mixed Methods–Grounded Theory: Developing Scales for a New Measurement Model

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle C. Howell Smith ◽  
Wayne A. Babchuk ◽  
Jared Stevens ◽  
Amanda L. Garrett ◽  
Sherry C. Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Measurement Model ◽  
Undergraduate Engineering ◽  
Confirmatory Factor

Mixed methods–grounded theory (MM–GT) has emerged as a promising methodology that intersects the value of mixed methods with rigorous qualitative design. However, recent reviews have found that MM–GT empirical studies tend to lack procedural details. The purpose of this article is to apply the “best practices” for conducting MM–GT in a study designed to develop and then test a theoretical model for how undergraduate engineering students develop interest in the engineering PhD. This study contributes to the field of mixed methods research by (a) illustrating best practices for MM–GT, (b) providing an MM–GT scale development example, (c) demonstrating how an MM-GT scale could potentially bypass exploratory factor analysis and proceed directly to confirmatory factor analysis for testing psychometric properties, and showing how a joint display for data collection planning can be used to strengthen integration in an instrument development study.

If it is love, can I get my money back? A critical review of the brand love literature

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 147-159
Author(s):  
Salim Moussa
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Marketing Theory ◽  
Advertising Agencies ◽  
Brand Love ◽  
Extant Literature ◽  
Love Literature

Brand love is becoming central to modern marketing theory and practice. In academia, researchers are showing increasing interest in investigating its causes and consequences. In practice, a growing number of consultancies and advertising agencies are currently proposing love scores, love indices, and love rankings for brands. An exacting examination of the extant literature reveals, however, that: (1) brand love's conceptual proprieties have always been entirely elusive; (2) its measurement is still substandard; (3) extant empirical studies are full of methodological flaws and far-fetched findings; and that (4) researchers have ignored one important issue while investigating brand love, that is, culture. This paper tries to draw attention on the aforesaid four deficits with the intent of instigating discussions, debates and, in due course, a deeper understanding of this concept.

Anti-Semitism in the Muslim World: A Critical Review

2006 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gudrun Krämer
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
European Origin ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
The Status ◽  
Arab Israeli Conflict ◽  
The Impact

AbstractCurrent debates on anti-Semitism in the Muslim world, or as it is often put, 'in Islam' focus on a number of issues: the status of Jews in Islam with regard to both theory and practice; the impact of the Arab-Israeli conflict over Palestine; the adoption and adaptation of anti-Semitic motifs and stereotypes of European origin in nationalist and Islamist discourses; and the politics of memory and commemoration. Here as elsewhere, contextualization is required if we are to understand the meanings and functions of anti-Semitic attitudes and activities among specific audiences. But contextualization must not be used for apologetic purposes.

scholarly journals EXPLORING STUDENTS’ DEFINITIONS OF SUCCESS: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Max Ullrich ◽  
David S. Strong
Keyword(s):  
Student Success ◽  
Achievement Motivation ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Research Study ◽  
The Other ◽  
Academic Environment ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Student Group ◽  
Engineering Programs ◽  
Undergraduate Engineering

The term “success” has many different meanings for students and stakeholders in the academic environment [1]. The most common measure of student success employed by researchers and institutions is performance-based measures such as grades and graduation rates. The remainder of the definitions are inconsistent among the various stakeholders in the academic environment. Understanding the importance of the criteria used by students to define their success in Canadian undergraduate engineering programs, as well as the degree to which students are motivated to engage in each criterion with a mastery-based approach, could be useful for reconciling the differences between the student group and the other stakeholders in the academic environment and assist in designing teaching strategies that align with these criteria and thus promote a masterybased view of success. This paper summarizes three achievement motivation frameworks and contributes a synthesis of the literature regarding student and other stakeholder definitions of student success to identify opportunities and methodologies in preparation for a research study on this topic as it applies to success in the context of Canadian undergraduate engineering students.  

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