Duran-Ledezma, N. F., & Biernacki, J. J., & Wendt, S. L., & Majors, T. D., & Bhattacharya, I. (2024, March), Improving Undergraduate Success Through Effective Critical Thinking  Paper presented at 2024 South East Section Meeting, Marietta, Georgia. 10.18260/1-2--45536

\bibitem{asee_peer_45536}
  Duran-Ledezma, N. F., \& Biernacki, J. J., \& Wendt, S. L., \& Majors, T. D., \& Bhattacharya, I. (2024, March), \emph{Improving Undergraduate Success Through Effective Critical Thinking}
  Paper presented at 2024 South East Section Meeting, Marietta, Georgia.
  10.18260/1-2--45536

Nathan Felipe Duran-Ledezma, Joseph J. Biernacki, Stephanie Leigh Wendt, Twanelle Deann Majors, and Indranil Bhattacharya.  "Improving Undergraduate Success Through Effective Critical Thinking".  2024 South East Section Meeting, Marietta, Georgia, 2024, March.  ASEE Conferences, 2024.  https://peer.asee.org/45536 Internet.  15 May, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_45536}
  Nathan Felipe Duran-Ledezma, Joseph J. Biernacki, Stephanie Leigh Wendt, Twanelle Deann Majors, and Indranil Bhattacharya.
  "Improving Undergraduate Success Through Effective Critical Thinking".
  \emph{2024 South East Section Meeting, Marietta, Georgia, 2024, March}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2024.
  https://peer.asee.org/45536 Internet.  15 May, 2024

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AB  - Critical thinking skills, problem-solving abilities, creativity, and design aptitude are highly sought traits for engineering graduates. However, feedback from employers indicate that recently graduated students often exhibit a deficiency in the forementioned cognitive proficiencies.  At the same time, faculty report students have a difficult time transferring knowledge learned between contexts. Even though students perform sufficiently well at exams, grades are not a good indicator of the student’s ability to retain knowledge nor to think critically. Critical thinking skills might be a correlational factor that links student’s knowledge acquisition rates and graduation rates. To find a possible relationship between these two, the Undergraduate Success Through Effective Critical Thinking (iUSE-CT) program has been implemented at TTU, now in its third and final year. iUSE-CT aims to improve student academic success. Academic success is being determined by considering first year freshmen retention rates of chemical and electrical engineering students. The study group consists of two cohorts of control and treatment subjects. Students in the treatment groups are introduced to metacognition and critical thinking skills. A methodology of deliberately training students to identify and use critical thinking skills through individual activities as well as group tasks has been implemented. In freshman year, the Critical Thinking Assessment Test (CAT) exam is being used at the beginning and at the end of the academic year to gauge improvements in CT skills.  The ultimate goal, however, it is to increase success rates measured in terms of retention in the discipline.
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