Research Results

This page contains links to journal articles, conference presentations and papers that reflect our most recent findings from the AWE project.

Marra, R.; Rodgers, K.; Shen, D. & Bogue, B. (2009). Leaving Engineering: A Multiyear Single Institution Study. Paper presented at the annual meeting of AERA. San Diego, April 13 - 17.

Discusses factors that influenced the decision to transfer out of engineering of nearly 200 students who chose to leave engineering. Data were collected with the AWE Leaving Engineering Instrument. There were no gender differences, however the factor "lack of belonging" in engineering played significantly in the results.

Marra, R.; Peterson, K., & Britsch, B. (2009). The National Girls Collaborative Project: Developing Capacity for Women in STEM via Collaboration. Paper presented at the annual meeting of AERA. San Diego, April 13 - 17.

Discusses the model of collaboration implemented via the NGCP and how it can improve  STEM outreach. AWE is a co-partner in the National Girls Collaborative Project.

Bogue, B. & Marra, R. (2009). Help her believe in herself. PRISM (April), p. 51.

Learn about how self-efficacy can impact women students' ability to succeed in engineering and how educators can address this issue.

Marra, R.; Rogers, K.A.; Shen, D.; & Bogue, B. (2009). "A Multi-Year, Multi-Institution Study of Women Engineering Student Self-Efficacy, Journal of Engineering Education, " 98, 1 – 12.

This article reports on a two year study of the changes in engineering self-efficacy of 196 women engineering students at five U.S. Institutions. Our results show that while some aspects of self-efficacy improve, feelings of inclusions decrease significantly over time with a  trend towards significance for minority students. Additionally engineering self-efficacy was found to be a predictor of self-reported intentions to persist in studying engineering.  Overall the study supports the importance of self-efficacy as a predictor of engineering education success; implications for engineering educators are discussed.

Marra, R., Bogue, B, Shen, D. (2008). Engineering Classroom Environments: Examining Differences by Gender and Departments. In proceedings of American Society for Engineering Education, 22 - 24 June, Pittsburgh, PA.

This paper reports on one year of data from a study of classroom learning environments in three engineering departments, which differ in size, discipline and pedagogical methodology, at a large eastern university.

Marra, R., Bogue, B., Rodgers, K., Shen, D. (2007). Self-efficacy of women engineering students – Three years of data at U.S. institutions.  In proceedings of American Society for Engineering Education, 22 – 24 June, Honolulu, Hawaii.

This paper describes the results of a longitudinal study of women engineering self-efficacy at five institutions across the U.S.

 

Marra, R., Bogue, B., Shen, D., Rodgers, K. (2007). Those that leave – Assessing why students leave engineering. In proceedings of American Society for Engineering Education, 22 – 24 June, Honolulu, Hawaii.

This paper describes the results of a survey designed to uncover why students choose to leave engineering.

Marra, R.M. and Bogue, B. (2006). "Women Engineering Students' Self Efficacy - A Longitudinal Multi-Institution Study". Paper presented at the WEPAN Conference, 11-13 June, Pittsburgh, PA.

This paper describes the results of a longitudinal study of women engineering self-efficacy at five institutions across the U.S.

 

Marra, R.M. and Bogue, B. (2006). "A Critical Assessment of Online Survey Tools". Paper presented at the WEPAN Conference, 11-13 June, Pittsburgh, PA.

This paper provides an overview of the functionality of online assessment tools from a practitioner's stand point.

 

Bogue, B. (2005). " Assessment Driven Change: How Systemic Evaluation Can Lead to More Productive Outreach (2005 Conference) ". Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright, 12 -15 June, Portland, OR.

This paper describes the MTM High School Day Camp (Move the Mountain) a traditional residential camp designed to introduce junior and senior high school girls to engineering.

 

Bogue, B., Sharma, C., Schuurman, M., Marra, R. (2005). "Taming data: collect, compare and report data using AWE ADAPT". Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright, 12 -15 June, Portland, OR.

This paper describes the AWE ADAPT data management tool.

Marra, R.M., Moore, C., Schuurman, M., & Bogue, B. (2004). “Assessing Women in Engineering (AWE): Assessment Results on Women Engineering Students Beliefs”. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of American Society for Engineering Education, (June 20 – 23, 2004); Salt Lake City, UT.

This article describes our preliminary results of a cross-sectional study of women engineering student self-efficacy. It also provides details on the newly developed AWE instrument designed to measure engineering self-efficacy – LAESE (longitudinal assessment of engineering self-efficacy).

Marra, R.M. and Bogue, B. (2004) “AWE: A Model for Sustainable and Profitable Collaboration Between Disciplines”. Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 10(3), 283 - 295.

This article describes the working partnership between the CO-PIs from the AWE project – an experienced Women in Engineering Director and an Educational Assessment specialist.