NDLI: Understanding student confidence as it relates to first year achievement

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Besterfield-Sacre, M. Amaya, N.Y. Shuman, L.J. Atman, C.J. Porter, R.L.
Copyright Year	1998
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Mech. & Ind. Eng., Texas Univ., El Paso, TX, USA (Besterfield-Sacre, M.)
Abstract	There has been considerable concern that entering female engineering students begin their studies with less confidence in their abilities than academically equivalent male students. Further, there is concern that this 'under-confidence' problem persists throughout the university experience. As a precursor to a larger cross-institutional study, the authors have investigated this issue in the USA at the University of Pittsburgh, University of Texas-El Paso and North Carolina State University. Using the Pittsburgh Freshman Engineering Attitudes Surveys, they examined the differences between male and female students' self-assessed confidence (relative to five measures) when they began their engineering studies and after one or two semesters of study. In addition, they examined students' confidence and changes in confidence with respect to their entering SAT scores and first year performance. At all three institutions, female students entered with significantly lower confidence in their basic engineering knowledge and skills (one of the five measures) than did their male counterparts, but only continued to exhibit this low confidence at one institution during the freshman year. However, they did not find any consistent, significant relations for the other measures, nor did they find any relations with SAT and performance.
Starting Page	258
Ending Page	263
File Size	691303
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0780347625
ISSN	01905848
DOI	10.1109/FIE.1998.736844
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1998-11-04
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Engineering students Educational institutions Data engineering Position measurement Industrial engineering Education Knowledge engineering Iron Instruments
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education Computer Science Applications Software

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