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Students – Ask Them to Eat Their Steaks!

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Conference

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Tampa, Florida

Publication Date

June 15, 2019

Start Date

June 15, 2019

End Date

June 19, 2019

Conference Session

Mechanics Division Technical Session 3

Tagged Division

Mechanics

Page Count

12

DOI

10.18260/1-2--33309

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https://strategy.asee.org/33309

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376

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Julian Ly Davis University of Southern Indiana

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Julian received his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech in Engineering Mechanics in 2007. He spent a semester teaching at community college in the area and then spent two years at University of Massachusetts continuing his research in finite element modeling and biomechanics and continuing to teach. He has been at the University of Southern Indiana since 2010.

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Tom McDonald University of Southern Indiana

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Tom McDonald is an Associate Professor in the Engineering Department at the University of Southern Indiana. He serves as the Director for the MS Industrial Management and BS Manufacturing Engineering programs. He earned his BSIE and MSIE degrees in Industrial Engineering from Clemson University and his PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech.
His research and teaching interests primarily include online homework, lean manufacturing, discrete event simulation and modeling, and engineering economy. Tom has been involved in lean manufacturing and modeling of production lines since 1999.

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Jenna Kloosterman University of Southern Indiana

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Jenna L. Kloosterman received the B.A. degree in physics from the University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA in 2004, and M.S. and PhD degrees in astronomy in 2010, and electrical and computer engineering in 2014, respectively, both from the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
After graduating with her PhD in 2014, she worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, first as a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow from 2014-2016 and then as RF/Microwave Engineer from 2016-2017. She started as an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, IN in the fall of 2017. Her research interests include THz technology development, superconducting detectors, heterodyne arrays, and microwave instruments.

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Abstract

Some faculty in large-scale engineering classes have turned to using only online homework based systems such as Pearson’s Mastering, Wiley Plus, and/or McGraw Hill’s Connect to assess student learning. These systems provide content, grading and assessment of student work, and feedback to students while solving problems. Previous research has shown that students value both online and handwritten homework. Even students who disliked online homework found it to be at least somewhat helpful. The current research is investigating to see if performance on higher “steak” (e.g., more heavily weighted in overall grade) activities is better than on lower “steak” activities in a Dynamics class and a General Physics I class. In our research low, medium, and high steak activities are classified as online homework, handwritten homework, and exams, respectively. When evaluating the data, the percentage grade for each of the steaks was recorded for each student and compared against the remaining data sets. The analysis was conducted for each class and combined. Preliminary results from all three analyses indicate there is no significant difference between the averages of the different levels of steaks. However, in evaluating the data, it appears that with additional data, a significant difference may develop between the medium and high steak for the Dynamics course.

Davis, J. L., & McDonald, T., & Kloosterman, J. (2019, June), Students – Ask Them to Eat Their Steaks! Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Tampa, Florida. 10.18260/1-2--33309

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