Exploring the relationships among performance on engineering tasks, confidence, gender and first year persistence

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Light, Jennifer ^a,b,c   Korte, Russell ^a,d,e   Yasuhara, Ken ^a,f   Kilgore, Deborah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b LEWIS CLARK STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

^c National Academy of Engineering   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e University's Institute of Technology

^f Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; STUDENTS;

ENGINEERING SCHOOLS; ENGINEERING TASKS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 85029036487     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21535965     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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