Martinez Soto, K. D., & Murzi, H. (2023, March), Using modular assignments to assess MATLAB in a first year engineering course  Paper presented at ASEE Southeast Section Conference, Arlington, Virginia. 10.18260/1-2--45057

\bibitem{asee_peer_45057}
  Martinez Soto, K. D., \& Murzi, H. (2023, March), \emph{Using modular assignments to assess MATLAB in a first year engineering course}
  Paper presented at ASEE Southeast Section Conference, Arlington, Virginia.
  10.18260/1-2--45057

Karen Dinora Martinez Soto and Homero Murzi.  "Using modular assignments to assess MATLAB in a first year engineering course".  ASEE Southeast Section Conference, Arlington, Virginia, 2023, March.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://peer.asee.org/45057 Internet.  09 May, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_45057}
  Karen Dinora Martinez Soto and Homero Murzi.
  "Using modular assignments to assess MATLAB in a first year engineering course".
  \emph{ASEE Southeast Section Conference, Arlington, Virginia, 2023, March}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://peer.asee.org/45057 Internet.  09 May, 2024

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - The First Year Engineering program (FYE) is a group of foundational engineering and general education courses aimed to prepare first-year and transfer engineering students for academic success in a degree-granting engineering program. As part of the FYE program, all incoming engineering students take foundations of engineering I. The goal of the course is to understand the different types of engineering disciplines, to develop professional skills (e.g., teamwork, holistic approaches, critical thinking, communication), and to solve problems using systematic engineering approaches and tools. To achieve this objective, FYE instructors are expected to teach a module on MATLAB. This module has historically been the most challenging part of the course for students to learn and for instructors to teach. In order to ensure uniform instruction across the multiple sections of the course, the FYE develops a set of assessments or ‘challenges’ to evaluate the students’ programming ability. The challenges for the 2021-2022 academic year were designed to be modular so that instructors could select the most appropriate problems for the context of their class, while still evaluating common programming skills. 

The purpose of this work is to gather the perceptions of instructors and students of the MATLAB assessment materials provided for the 2021-2022 academic year. The perceptions collected from returning faculty members will also help assess how effective the new materials were at supporting their teaching compared to the materials provided to them in the past. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews and will be analyzed using a social cognitive lens to determine how the assessment materials affected the learning conditions of the students. 

The results of this work will provide a roadmap for future MATLAB assessment material development and inform better teaching practices for the FYE MATLAB module. We provide implications for research and practice. 

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