This project supports construction and civil engineering faculty in their efforts to develop, evaluate, and improve the delivery of their courses. The work, guided by an instrument development framework, develops an instrument to measure students’ social engagement in a classroom. The expected outcomes of this project are: (1) an exploratory framework for how construction and civil engineering faculty make choices and engage in a classroom; (2) a deeper understanding of processes that underlie social engagement in construction and civil engineering classrooms; and, (3) a valid and reliable social engagement instrument with modular subscales to measure student engagement in civil and construction engineering education. The cognitive engagement instrument is being developed by a collaborating institution. This project is funded by the National Science Foundation.

PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH

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Nicole P. Pitterson, Shane Brown, Jason Pascoe. “Measuring cognitive engagement through interactive, constructive, active and passive learning activities,” Juried Conference Paper, 2016.

Allyson Jo Ironside Nicole P. Pitterson Shane A. Brown Kathleen Quardokus Fisher Sean Lyle Gestson Denise Rutledge Simmons Olusola Adesope. “Incorporating Faculty Sense Making in the Implementation and Modification of an Instrument to Measure Social and Cognitive Engagement,” ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2017.

B. Lutz S. Brown O. O. Adesope D. R. Simmons N. Hunsu. “Work in Progress: Updates on the Development of The Student Cognitive Engagement Survey,” 2018 American Society for Engineering Education Conference, 2018.

N. Hunsu D. R. Simmons S. Brown O. O. Adesope. “Developing an instrument of classroom social engagement: A work in progress,” 2018 American Society for Engineering Education Conference, 2018.